A lightning storm. A rural ranch in the New Mexico desert. A crash site.

Whether you believe in extraterrestrial contact or not, or waffle in a gray area, the UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, NM, will make you question.

The museum doesn’t set out to make believers out of non-believers, but just to present information. And the information seems quite abundant and attested to. A lightning storm happened. A rancher set out to survey damage and collect downed weather balloons to return to government officials, as with every storm. He happened upon a crash site, where a metallic material crumpled into the hand re-assumed its original shape seamlessly. Four bodies lay on the ground near the crash site, ejected from the doomed craft. One of them was alive.

This is the basis of the crash theory, supported by multiple affidavits from witnesses at all levels of creditability, from civilian to local law enforcement to military and government. What happened afterward is also reported and supported, detailing cover-up, coercion, threats, medical examinations, and the decades-late relief of witness honesty. However, lacking still may be government transparency. When will we know, publicly, the full story? If there is one.

The bodies were not green, but whiteish-gray. And what have we gained from the study of them and their technologies since? Maybe a lot. Maybe nothing, if nothing happened at all. But all of our rapid advances in recent decades could make a person wonder…

ROSWELL SPACE WALK

This art installation is completely dark with only the glow of black lights. It’s so much fun and totally worth it.

THE RED SUN

The wildfires in California and Colorado cause an evening red sun. We saw it from Wyoming to Colorado to New Mexico and into western Texas. The haze from the fires’ smoke creates the eerie phenomenon, and you can gaze at it with the naked eye. These photos were taken in Roswell, NM.