Roswell Movie Acorn Space Pod Close-up from the Roswell Movie Sketch Page #2

CLIENT: Jeremy Kagan, Director, Writer and Executive Producer; Paul Jeffrey Davids, Writer and Executive Producer; Ilene Kahn Power, Executive Producer; Sam and Maggie Productions; Citadel Entertainment; Viacom Pictures. (Note: I never met Executive Producer David R. Ginsburg, Co-Producer Peter R. McIntosh or Writer Arthur L. Kopit who are also listed and credited).

ORIGINAL NETWORK DISTRIBUTORS: SHOWTIME / Viacom.

PROJECT: "Roswell (also known as Roswell: The U.F.O. Cover-Up)"

VFX ANIMATION: Anderson Video, Studio City, California.

TIMELINE: September 1993 through June 1994.

NOTE: The surviving and now dying witnesses to the recovery of the real Roswell spacecraft described it as a battered, rumpled, formerly pristine aerowing/aerosurf or "Batwinged" arrowhead-like vehicle. But the movie director wanted something very simple, like a space pod.

THIS ASSIGNMENT'S DETAILS: This illustration was commissioned by Executive Producer and Film Director Jeremy Kagan, Executive Producer and Writer Paul Jeffrey Davids and Executive Producer Ilene Kahn Power. It was rendered for the 1994 SHOWTIME/Viacom telefilm "Roswell," starring Kyle MacLauclan, Kim Griest, Xander Berkeley, Peter McNichol and Martin Sheen.

I followed the careful and very specific instructions of Director Jeremy Kagan to the letter as he locked his interest and his vision on to this acorn pod as the second version that the 509th reunion witnesse characters around the pool would recall during that on-screen sequence.

This sketch image is a close-up of Jeremy's preferred the Kecksburg "Acorn" UFO Pod version of the Roswell crashed spacecraft. He found the "Acorn" more interesting than the alligator or crocodile egg-shaped pods described by Soccoro Police Officer Lonnie Zamora in 1964 New Mexico or various witnesses of Dr. Jacques Vallee in France and Belgium over a number of decades.

It about drove me crazy, the fact that he had no interest in my General Composite of the Roswell Aerosurf/Aerospace Command Module Shuttlecraft. I'd already made my first attempt to interest the Testor Corporation in my spacecraft after the success of their original Bob Lazar "Sportsmodel" UFO model kit sales. Executive Vice President of Sales, Gary Cadish, had declined to meet with me.

Both John Andrews in San Diego and Ernie Petit in Rockford, Illinois reversed that rejection.

Meanwhile, "We're making a 'drama,'" Jeremy Kagan always admonished me. "Not a documentary." In one conversation, the director said that personally he believed that all these space aliens were time traveling future evolutions of Earth humans--traveling backwards in time.