


Below is a timeline I have created using dates from the show and the Silver Hand Printt.
It is the most complete & inclusive Roswell timeline ever available!
****It should be current up through season 2 'Off the Menu' info too.****
Some of the dates contradict each other or don't make sense. They list the same event on two different days,
or put the gang in school on Saturday or Sunday, but I have listed them as they were. Also you might
notice that on some days the gang seem to be going to work before school. Perhaps they have work release?
I have also included the source where I got each date in ().
A list of episode abbreviations is at the bottom of the page.
Items that didn't come from the transcripts but came from the SHP, Atherton's Bio, etc, I've included links
to the orig reference so you can see the entire document. Just click on the word Source next to them.
I have included some happenings that we don't know definate dates for, placing them in a date range.
I've also included some things that never made it to the show but were supposedly in
earlier script versions or cut scenes - abbreviated as (CS) cut scenes
***If anyone has additional dates, please let me know and I will credit you.***
I'm really not caring about season 3, so I didn't include any dates for it.
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early 1900s
no specific date given
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- Liz Parker's great grand parent(s) settled in the Roswell area (P) |
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1911
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- James Atherton born in East Pohawnee, Tennessee (285S) - source |
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1918
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- Charles Dupree born (DTM - SHP) - source |
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1919
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December 5
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- Whitaker Diary. Fake date of birth assigned to Vanessa Whitaker (SHP) - source |
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1927
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- Atherton's Biography. Mentions the Buffalo visitation (285S) - source |
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1935
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- The date on the picture of Charles Dupress found by Isabel (WAF) |
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1936
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- Charles Dupree discovers the largest silver deposit in the southwest. Not long after, he started to be abducted. (DTM - SHP) - source | - Charles Dupree was 18 (SHP) - source - James Valenti Sr. born (TC - DTM) (Making him 11 yrs old in '47 when he was a deputy - lol. I'm guessing the newspaper got his age wrong. Perhaps he was really born in 1926.)
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1947
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July 4
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- the day of the crash, according to Milton (MA) | - Betty Osorio's notebook starts. Talks about meal expenses at Parker's, and Hal Carver (SHP) - source - Clean up of the site began at 4am (SHP) - source - At approximately 4:30am Private Bill Pifer & Jim McCarthy were killed at the crash site (SHP) - source
July 5
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- Betty Osorio's notebook. Talks about a beauty salon owner, Mac Brazel, Jesse Marcel (SHP) - source
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July 6
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- Betty Osorio's notebook. Talks about a local reporter and several people who won't talk. (SHP) - source
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July 7
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- Betty Osorio's notebook. Hal Carver, Richard Dotie, James Cassidy, Deputy Jim Valenti & Yvonne White. (SHP) - source | - The 'official' report list Private Bill Pifer & Jim McCarthy were killed in a Jeep accident (SHP) - source
July 8
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- Betty Osorio's notebook. Found 'Go Home' note under hotel door at 5:45pm (SHP) - source | - Crash Site fatalities report (SHP) - source
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| Summer of '47
Day 1 | July 7 (if you go by the date in the show) or July 4 (M & SHP) (if you go by the date Milton and Betty Osorio's notes give)
- The day of the crash (So47) | (The date in 'So47' is July 7th, seen on a calander in the army base. It is completely different than Milton gives and Betty Osorio's notes which both say July 4th.) - Hal and Richie are assigned to drive a truck to base. On the way the truck loses power and they seem to hit someone. When they look in the back they see 2 large sacks. (So47)
Day 2 | (possibly the next day) July 8 (DTM) (if you go by the date in the show) or July 7 or 8 (DTM) (if you go by the date Milton and Betty Osorio's notes give)
- Hal is introduced to a nurse who tells him she was at an autopsy and the bodies were like nothing she has ever seen (So47)
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Day 3 | (the next day) July 9 (DTM) (if you go by the date in the show) or July 8 or 9 (DTM) (if you go by the date Milton and Betty Osorio's notes give)
- Hal finds a file that says two soldiers were killed by aliens, but the army is covering it up, saying they died in a Jeep accident. He thinks their families should know the truth and so he gives the file to a reporter, Betty, so she can print it (So47)
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Day 4 | (the next day) July 10 (So47) (if you go by the date in the show) or July 9 or 10 (DTM) (if you go by the date Milton and Betty Osorio's notes give)
- The newspaper story about the aliens never runs, and the reporter, Betty, mysteriously dies, but leaves Hal a key to one of the army buildings (So47) | - Hal goes to check the building and finds the morgue. Inside are the sacks and two dead doctors. Two aliens come out and he realizes they are protecting the sacks. He tells the aliens to save the sacks, and distracts the guards (So47)
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unknown dates | could be hours, days, months or years after the events in Summer of '47 and the order of some events is unclear
- possibly one or both shapeshifters escape with the two sets of pods | - one set of pods is placed in the pod chamber - one set of pods is taken to New York City, NY and placed in the sewer (MITC) - the Granolith is installed in the pod chamber (this could have been before or after the capture) - a communication orb is buried near the pod chamber (SH) (this could have been before or after the capture) - a shapeshifter goes to live in a cave on the Mesiliko reservation and takes the name Nasedo (B) - Nasedo retrieves the healing stones and pendant necklace from where they were hidden (the army didn't have either item, so they must have been hidden somewhere, possibly near the crash site. he might have retrieved the items at different times, or possibly he told River Dog where the healing stones were hidden when he used them to heal him) - Nasedo is tested by the Mesiliko elders and would have died if he didn't share his secret with a young River Dog, who used the healing stones to save Nasedo's life (B) - Nasedo befriends the Mesiliko people and James Atherton (RD) - Nasedo gives James Atherton his pendant necklace - someone (presumably James Atherton) puts the necklace in Atherton's secret basement in the geodesic dome in Marathon, TX (RD) - A shapeshifter is held in captivity for 3 years from 1947 to 1950 and most likely died (from remarks that Pierce makes to Max) (TWR)
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November 14
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- Everett Hubble birthdate (TC)
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1948
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- Atherton Biography. Project Sign is started by the Air Force, the government's first official UFO panel. It was replaced by Project Grudge. (285S) - source |
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1949
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- Agent Malcom Lewis is appointed the first head of the Special Unit (SHP) - source |
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1950
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- Agent Lewis told his wife about the butchers at Eagle Rock Military Base, where the alien was held in captivity (SHP) - source | - The end of three years of observation on one of the aliens held at Eagle Rock Military Base in the White Room. Perhaps it died or escaped. (TWR - DTM)
February 5
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- Whitaker Diary. 1st day in the Skins (SHP) - source |
February 13
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- Whitaker Diary. Talking about the Skins, the search for the Royal 4 (SHP) - source |
March 8
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- Whitaker Diary. Talking about family structure, human physical imperfections, and human social customs (SHP) - source |
July 4
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- Whitaker Diary. Have been looking for the Royal 4 for four months (SHP) - source |
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1951
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- Sheriff James Valenti Jr is born (P) |
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1952
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March
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- Atherton Biography. Project Blue Book organized by the Air Force (285S) - source |
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1953
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- Milton Ross' Birthdate (he was 6 in the photo marked 1959 - DTM - M - CS) |
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1955
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- The book 'Among Us' by James Atherton is published (RD)
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1957
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October 4
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- Whitaker Diary. Suffered 20% casualties, morale is low. Nicholas has sent troops all over the Earth to search for the Royal 4 (SHP) - source |
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1958
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- Nuclear testing in the desert outside Roswell (S&B) |
January 8
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- Whitaker Diary. How? (SHP) - source |
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1959
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- the date on the photo that Milton shows Max where he is standing near an apparent alien shadow (M) | - possible alien sighting, near the ice cream parlor in Roswell (M) - possibly before or after Nasedo kills Atherton, Nasedo fears someone is close to finding and killing him so he feels he must leave. He instructs River Dog that someday someone like him would come, and River Dog should show them the map he drew on the wall, but he should only show it to those who could pass a test. (RD) - Nasedo gives River Dog the healing stones for safe keeping (B) - it is most likely at this time that Nasedo draws a map on the cave wall, probably in case he is captured or killed - Nasedo leaves the Mesiliko reservation (RD) (date are never given for these events, but I am guessing Nasedo wouldn't stick around long if he thought someone was coming for him)
November 16
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- Nasedo kills James Atherton (285S) | - the corpse is discovered by Sheriff James Valenti Sr (I am assuming that Atherton was killed on the same day his body was found by the Sheriff. River Dog saw the body, so why would he wait to report the death) (P) - the date on the photo of the unknown corpse with the silver handprint (that turns out to be James Atherton) that Valenti shows Liz (P)
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1960s
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exact date unknown
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- Nasedo makes a supposed deal with Khivar to get the bride pregnant and deliver the baby and the clones to Khivar. |
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1962
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- Agent Malcom Lewis, the first head of the Special Unit is found dead in Delta, Colorado (SHP) - source | - Agent Del Bianco takes charge as the head of the Special Unit (SHP) - source
November 3
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- Whitaker Diary. Still can't talk about it (SHP) - source |
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1963
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February 12
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- Whitaker Diary. Talks about it took 5 years to deal with the death of her best friend. Nicholas killed her friends in front of her and spared her life. Nicholas was a General on Antar in the palace. (SHP) - source |
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