Roswell 1947 page two

Roswell 1947 by Ken David Stewart            page one

Act One Scene One:

Narrator:  As our play opens a group of old men are sitting on rocking chairs outside the Roswell General Store. It’s getting late in the evening and the temperature is dropping rapidly. The men are suddenly startled by an unusual sight in the sky.

Dewey:  What the heck is that? Look at the sky.

Buford:  I don’t know. It looks like a silver disc with bright flashing lights.

Clem:  It’s losing elevation real fast.

Dewey: I can’t see it any more. It’s disappeared behind yonder hill.

Narrator:  In a few seconds the men heard a loud crash that sounded like thunder. The crash seemed to have come from behind the hill. As they heard the sound the sky lit up like a huge orange yellow flame.

Act One Scene Two:

Narrator:  We are now at the ranch of Mick Russell. His ranch is not far from the city of Roswell. It is five AM and Mick is suddenly stirred from a sound sleep by the noise created by his animals.

Mick: Those damn animals! It’s too early for them to be up. I better go out and check what the commotion is all about.

Narrator: Mac sleepily puts on his jeans and a tee shirt and walks down the hall toward his son’s bedroom.

Mick: Rob, get up. The animals are all freaked out about something.

Rob: Ah come on Dad. I was up until three in the morning partying.

Mick: That’s tough. Put on your clothes and come help your dad.

Rob: All right I’m coming. Don’t get your shirt in a knot.

Narrator: As soon as Mick and Rob walk about one hundred yards out into the field they find out what rattled the animals.

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Mick- What the heck? Look at all those shiny pieces of metal.

Rob:  Yeah, there must be hundreds of jagged pieces. The glare off the sun is almost blinding.

Mick:  Where do you think all this metal came from?

Rob:  It looks like something very large crashed here last night.

Mick:  It’s that damn Air Force base. They’re always testing some top secret stuff over there.

Narrator:  Rob picks up a few of the metal pieces and starts to examine them.

Rob:  This stuff is weird Dad. It’s giving me the creeps. It’s so flexible it’s unreal. Look Dad I can roll a piece of this metal up until a ball and it straightens itself right out again.

Narrator:  Mick moves closer to Rob to take a closer look.

Mick:  Look at the strange marking on this piece.

Rob:  It looks like Egyptian hieroglyphics or something?

Mick:  You’re talking way over my head son. I only went up to grade eight. Don’t worry though. Let’s put some of this stuff in a bag. I’ll take it to the sheriff tomorrow and see what he makes of it. Then I’m going to ask him who’s going to clean up this mess on my ranch.

Rob: I forgot to tell you Dad. Last night we were sitting outside Dwight’s place drinking beer when we saw this amazing flash of bright orange light in the sky. Then, kaboom! We heard this deafening crash.

Mick:  What you guys probably heard and saw was the light show from the Pink Floyd concert. They were playing in Albuquerque last night.

Rob:  Dad, this is 1947! Rock and roll hasn’t even been invented yet.

Mick:  Oh yeah, you’re right.

Narrator:  Mick climbs into his old rusted pick up truck and heads for town. While he’s driving Rob turns on the radio and they start listening to Rick Black morning show.