It strikes me that the Roswell crash is a philosophical allegory.
We are, you see, randomly thrown into the world and captured by a system (Heidegger/Althusser). As a result we do not have a culture of open meeting and encounter (as Levinas might want). Earth, it is Roswell. You are looking at a mirror of how we all live.
The question seems to be how we can elevate our society. So it ceases to be a random trap, and becomes instead a world where open, free, and conscious meeting is the norm. As above, so below. Roswell is for now a mirror of the human predicament in which we are the crashed and captured beings. You meet that by crashing and being captured.
That is either polite or a joke. We get, it seems, the UFO encounters we deserve.
Curiously Roswell means the place where a horse is led to water, recalling the famous proverb. You can lead the horse, but it may not drink. That looks like a pun on the Eucharist. Perhaps the alien has not only technological mastery, but a deep understanding of our cultural flaws and windows.
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