Loving the alien
Posted Sunday, June 03, 2007, 5:18 PM by Lonely Planet
Otherworldly aliens dwell among us, at least in Roswell's many souvenir shops.
If you've ever thrilled to The X-Files, the incident at Roswell, New Mexico is already filed away in your top secret memory banks. In 1947, as Cold War hysteria sent Americans into a tongue-tied tizzy, a mysterious object crashed at a nearby ranch. No one would have skipped any sleep over it, but the military made a big to-do of hushing it up, and for a lot of folks, that sealed it. The aliens had landed! 
International curiosity and local ingenuity have transformed the small city into a thriving extraterrestrial-wannabe zone. Downtown, bulbous white heads glow atop the street lamps, a fast-food chain takes the shape of a celestial spacecraft and the windows of the local music store have little space-dudes jamming on electric guitars. Inside the popular UFO Museum, pale elongated beings with huge eye sockets turn up everywhere. Aliens pop out of Christmas stockings in the gift shop and a huge silver-sequined flying saucer could be a back-up disco ball for the galactic 'in' crowd. 
The crash heard 'round the world has even given the city a new logo- a spaceship with an outer space-friendly slogan: 'Visitors welcome.'
Beth Kohn is hovering through the Southwest States researching the USA guidebook. Alas, Beth didn't see any flying saucers, but stay tuned - next stop Earthship, Taos.
Labels: The Americas
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Those big eyed creatures are not for real. Here is a Wikipedia article that explains it all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat-like_aliens
This just cracks me up! I grew up in Roswell before moving to the East Coast in '98. All of the alien stuff was just starting up - looks like I need to revisit!
I wonder what those Aliens would think if they could see themselves in Christmas stockings! I'm sure they'd be quite offended!
Love the quirk! Keep it coming.
Oh man I love that stuff. I lived in Roswell for a few years. I loved all the alien stuff... The UFO museum, the parades lol... that stuff was great
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