1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,880 A grassroots movement is underway to get to the bottom of America's watershed UFO event, 2 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:13,780 the supposed crash of a flying saucer near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. 3 00:00:13,780 --> 00:00:19,080 The Roswell Declaration is a one-page petition calling for the declassification of any and 4 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:22,960 all government documents relating to the Roswell incident. 5 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:26,320 So far, the Declaration has over 12,000 signatures. 6 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:31,800 800 of those signatures were collected by high school students in one small New Hampshire town. 7 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:40,320 At first glance, you wouldn't think London Dairy, New Hampshire and Roswell, New Mexico shared 8 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:46,000 anything in common. London Dairy has the look of a Norman Rockwell painting where people have deep 9 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:52,840 roots and traditional American values. But the teenagers at London Dairy High School are linked 10 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:59,480 to Roswell because of the unlikeliest of events, a 50-year-old UFO mystery that students here think 11 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:05,840 is being covered up. Students weren't really together as far as interest in school or friends 12 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:12,520 came together because of this. It started with an assignment in Stephen Joster's fiction class to 13 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:17,720 try and obtain government documents through the Freedom of Information Act. It feels like we live 14 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:24,600 in America and we have freedom, but we don't. They're taking that away from us. They're covering up 15 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,600 stuff that we want to know about. I don't think it's right. 16 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:35,040 The students wanted information about the alleged UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico. They quickly 17 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:40,200 discovered that the official explanation for the incident didn't seem to warrant the number of still 18 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:44,080 classified documents the government refused to release to the students. 19 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:50,240 I think that the government is trying to find, like, hide something. I don't think it was a weather balloon. 20 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:56,320 I just think there are too many people that saw it. It seems to me that something incredible did happen. 21 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:04,000 Something landed there that was obviously bigger than just a weather balloon. Whether it was aliens or not, 22 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,040 I'm not really sure. That was really neat to, like, you know, maybe try and get this uncovered to see if it really 23 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:15,240 was an alien ship that landed or crashed or if it was just something else in the government just didn't want us to know about it. 24 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:21,800 When Stephen Juster saw that Omni was collecting signatures for a petition demanding the release of classified 25 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:28,800 Roswell documents, he saw a fund and engaging teaching tool for his class, but the entire student body became involved. 26 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:35,240 We just kind of thought it was gonna just be our little class project and that was it. Turned into a big thing. 27 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:42,480 Eventually the Roswell Project grew beyond Juster's class, beyond London Dairy High School and into every high school in New Hampshire. 28 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,240 In all more than 800 signatures were collected. 29 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:53,240 The plan is to send copies of them to all the senators and to all the congressmen and to the president and hopefully get the president to 30 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,240 sign and act saying that this material is declassified. 31 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:05,240 I think if people catch on to what we've done and say, hey, you know, a bunch of 18 year olds made this much of a change, 32 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:13,240 what can we do as a larger group? I think if it keeps snowballing the way it has, then things are definitely gonna change 33 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:18,240 because what can the government do? They can't ignore that many people. 34 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:26,240 Kent Jeffery, the author of the Roswell Declaration, plans to deliver the petition and a list of signatories to all members of Congress and to the White House. 35 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:34,240 If you're interested in signing the petition, copies of the Roswell Declaration are available through Sightings Online Service.