The New York Times reviewed the film as a tense drama, maintaining "an engrossing course." Criticizing the conspiracy aspect, it's noted that "What prevents this professionally fashioned hokum from being a high flier is the annoying question of how a cover-up that involved hundreds or thousands of people could have been maintained for 30 years or even 30 seconds in this expose-prone society."
Variety labeled it "a gripping fictional account." The review concludes, "Wherever the truths of the Roswell incident may lie, director
Kagan paces his story convincingly and, in the suspicions it raises about American military mendacity, unflinchingly: superior made-for-TV fare, in other words. The extraterrestrial bodies, by the way, are terrific." (
The Los Angeles Times considered the film "no mere sci-fi hardware yarn," adding "
Roswell is not so much a space odyssey but the story of a man's lost soul, that of an Air Force intelligence officer doggedly searching for the truth." ==Cast==