International UFO Museum & Research Center

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Space alien and flying saucer exhibit at the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico

There’s a lot of reading to be done at the UFO Museum (roswellufomuseum.com, adult/child $7/4) and exhibits dive right into the nitty-gritty, assuming familiarity with Roswell's extraterrestrial past.

Display panels share witness statements, newspaper cuttings and extended essays, outlining the 1947 Roswell Incident Timeline and explaining the "great cover-up." It also shows how aliens have been portrayed in pop culture, argues that a Mayan sculpture carved 1500 years ago was actually an astronaut in a space station and has a creepy display of an alien abduction with little green men and a light show.

Serious UFO-logists will lap it up; for skeptics and the merely curious, homemade models and gruesome mock-ups provide light relief. The library claims to have the world’s most comprehensive collection of UFO-related materials; who are we to doubt them?

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