A Visit To the Roswell International UFO Museum

Above, the Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

One claim to fame of the state of New Mexico are green and red chile peppers (restaurants in the state usually ask, "red or green?" when one is placing an order).

Another claim to fame is the Roswell Incident of July 1947. Here, it was reported that an alien "flying saucer" crashed on a ranch near Roswell during a severe thunderstorm. After initially stating that a flying saucer had been recovered by the military, the story changed the next day from flying saucer to "weather balloon".

Above, an eye-catching display at the UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Since then, the city of Roswell holds an annual UFO Festival (called AlienFest this year) and has opened the Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center.

Creators Syndicate has posted and article, "See The Spaceship Crash Site In Roswell, New Mexico". The title of the article is misleading as it focuses on the museum. I don't know about now, but bus tours to the crash site were offered during the past few years (I attended the 2018 festival but decided not to shell out over $70 so see barren land).

Above, an alien is about to be autopsied. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

But the article is interesting nonetheless as it describes what visitors can see in the UFO Museum.

It begins with:

My hobby is watching "Ancient Aliens" and "Project Blue Book" on TV. I love to imagine the "What ifs?" of satellites and space explorers — human and otherwise. In Roswell, New Mexico, locals claimed that in 1947 a spaceship crashed on a nearby rancher's property and five space beings were found, one of them alive. After the first rash of newspaper headlines that declared a UFO had crashed there, the U.S. government rushed in and declared the "spaceship" was a weather balloon and the stories were wild myths. For decades the top secrets were carefully guarded on threat of death if any eyewitnesses told what they actually saw.

So naturally I was fascinated by the little UFO museum we found years ago in Roswell and then on three subsequent trips visited again. What happened there that July night in 1947 was supported by people around the world who reported hundreds of sightings of UFOs, and convincing personal accounts were on the walls of this small-town, amateurish UFO Museum. This year we returned again to Roswell and were delighted at the newly rebuilt and renamed International UFO Museum.

The Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center is an interesting and fun place to visit. I highly recommend it.

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