Dark Skies at 25
‘Roswell and JFK in an Atom Collider’
Twenty-five years ago, NBC’s landmark alien invasion series Dark Skies linked two of the most speculated events of the century together: the Roswell crash recovery and the JFK assassination.
A Mashup of the Two Great American Conspiracies
We know that something crashed outside of Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947. We also know that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by someone on the streets of Dallas, Texas in 1963.
These two events, separated by sixteen years and hundreds of miles, are easily the most talked-about and speculated events in post World War II American history. Aside from conspiratorial overtones, they otherwise have no connection, at least on the surface. Or do they?
In 1996, a television series airing on the NBC network in primetime tied the two events together. Dark Skies presented an intriguing mix of 1960s nostalgia with a science fiction laced alternate history, mixing in a hefty dose of ufology among its tale of a secret war fought between the forces of the US government’s Majestic and the alien Hive. A quarter-century after its premiere, its linkage of these…
