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| Above, Main Street in Roswell during the 2018 UFO Festival. Note the street light at right. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
It seems that Roswell, New Mexico and the Roswell Incident of 1947 is also an international tourist draw.
One such foreign visitor (no, not an alien from outer space) is a travel writer for New Zealand's Newstalk ZB. Writer Mike Yardley recounts his visit to Roswell.
He begins with:
How many visitors would make a beeline to Loch Ness if it wasn’t for Nessie? Probably about as few who would visit dusty little Roswell in the New Mexico desert, if it wasn’t for the alleged UFO crash over 70 years ago. On my recent road-trip in the USA’s Southwest, I went out of my way to stitch the town to my travelling schedule, lured by one of the world’s greatest modern-day mysteries. The alleged crash-landing of a UFO with aliens aboard. Incidentally, Roswell’s only other claim to fame is that it was home to the bombing unit that dropped the nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – hardly a crowd-puller. On the 350km drive from Albuquerque to Roswell, there’s little to arouse much interest en-route, aside from stopping over at Fort Sumner.
It’s home to Billy the Kid’s gravesite, a legendary teenage outlaw of the Old West, who was fatally shot here in 1881. His tombstone has been heavily secured within a steel cage to stop attempted thefts. It adjoins the historic military site of the Bosque Redondo reservation, where thousands of Navajo and Mescalero Apache were forcibly relocated from their homelands and interred. The Navajo refer to their relocation to the Bosque Redondo as the Long Walk, with hundreds of Navajos dying along the way. After reflecting on history’s deep stain, it was full steam ahead for my alien pilgrimage.
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