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Well, this is not my area of expertise or background, and it was not even my interest before I started doing this.

It’s a weird thing to come into as an outsider. It’s really been fun and fascinating to start to learn about the history of it and about the people who are involved in it, who believe in it or don’t believe in it. I haven’t taken a side one way or the other but just enjoyed the fact that there’s the mythology that we create about the show, but then there’s a real mythology that exists about Roswell. I just love the fact that that exists and that you can call upon that in the show.

We did an episode in the second season called Summer of ‘47 where we go back to 1947. Some of the characters in that episode are based on real characters, and a lot of that episode is based on the so-called facts about what really happened, but then we mix it with our own mythology where we introduce the idea of the pods. So it’s a hybrid between what was real and what the show is.

When I first started to work on the pilot, I went to Roswell, New Mexico on a research thing to see the sites and be in the town and go to the museum and the military base and all those things. Something that’s great about being a writer is that you get to go into worlds that you normally would never have access to, or you would never really think about that much. It gives you an opportunity to really explore that.