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Roswell Aerosurf Skiff Commander?

THE STORY: The large glossy and very historic Sci-Fi & Fantasy Models magazine featured the entire journey taken by me with John Andrews and Ernie Petit from my twenty-two drawings to the store shelves in a major three-part article which spanned three issues and carried all of the drawings along with photos and assemblies done by them over in England. They allowed me to write the complete article--via email!--and limited their editing and length rules to simple spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure editing. They were a God-send.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy Models was a British magazine that started out as a specialized magazine on model kits and models in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres and was released through publisher "Next Millennium Publishing Limited", especially established for the publication on 27 May 1994 by its chief editors Michael Reccia and David Openshaw. The publishing house held office at 564 Burnley Road, Crawshawbooth, Rossendale, Lancashire, BB4 8AJ, United Kingdom.

Though initially a hobby market model kit magazine, from issue five onward it was beefed out with behind-the-scenes articles and interviews with visual effects (VFX) staffers, most notably the props and studio model builders, of the actual genre productions of both television and motion pictures. A large number of those articles were submitted by the staffers themselves. Originally intended to be illustrative of how professionals went about their business, the proportion of these article rose over the years to an extend that half-way through its run the original formula of the magazine was increasingly relegated to the fringes. The change was reflected in that the magazine changed its title twice during its lifetime, first to Sci-Fi & Fantasy Models International from issue 35 to issue 47, and secondly to Sci-Fi & Fantasy FX from issue 48 until the end of the run.

LICENSOR & DETECTIVE RENDERING ARTIST: Me. William Louis ("Bill") McDonald Sr.

PARTNERS: Then Captain and now Colonel and Doctor Kevin D. Randle (USAF Retired) along with Donald Raymond Schmitt, Co-authors of the "UFO Crash at Roswell (1991)" and "The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell (1994),"

LITERARY AGENT: Sharon Jarvis (Deceased), Toad Hall and Associates, Laceyville, Pennsylvania. (SPECIAL NOTE: Sharon worked as Special Assistant and Executive Assistant to Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis at Doubleday in New York for years prior to retiring to strike out on her own from nearby Laceyville.

THE LICENSEE: The Testor Corporation of Rockford, Illinois, via their Special Projects offices leased in San Diego.

WHAT THE WITNESSES SAID: Behind the two crew positions facing inboard and facing each other from either side of the bell-dome reactor / power generation plant device, in the far rear of the cocoon-like crew cabin, a seventh crash couch with wrap around consoles contained a Roswell alien looking forward despite being reclined. He was found with the crown and back of his head perfectly fitted into a niche and within a cervix-like cup where a headrest should have been.

Was this being with his plugged into a niche the crew's "Skipper?"  Or a special navigator?  None of the recovery team knew.  He was recovered dead at the scene.

Was this being with his plugged into a niche the crew's "Skipper?" Or a special navigator? None of the recovery team knew. He was recovered dead at the scene.