Close Encounters Of The Roswell Kind

OK, so I know many of you are thinking, Oh dear, they are not going to give us all that BS from the looney tunes down there in Roswell, New Mexico, are they?

I mean that flying saucer incident happened so long ago (1947 to be exact) and wasn't it proven to be a hoax? Hmmmmmmmm. A BIG HMMMMMMMMMMM!

If you have never been to the International UFO Museum and Research Center, we would highly recommend it. There is more to the story than most of us know from the press when we were young. I have always wanted to explore this place and this question since I was about 10 years old. I mean, are we that arrogant to think we are the only ones in this universe? Come to this museum and when you see the amount of research they have done on this subject, it will open your mind. I will say that some of the alien things on display are hilarious, but then we can all be funny, odd and a bit 'off' when we want to be :o)

When driving across this southern New Mexico landscape, you will experience that endless big sky in the high plains along the Sierra Blanca Mountain Range and you can just imagine how one could see a flying saucer hovering over that mystic expanse. Get ready.........here are the photos.

As you enter town from the south, you are greeted by this scene at the side of the road in a wheat field. Of course, I had to make a radical lane change to pull over to get these photos. The town folk have a good sense of humor about this whole alien thing. You can see the guy on the right is asking the alien next to him for a jump. The alien has a real set of jumper cables in his hands......

.....I had to take a close up of the woman offering the alien a pie. A PIE! It must be mince meat because that is how most people react to mince meat. Then, the alien on the left has an ET doll under his arm. Hilarious!

The museum has endless newspaper clippings from the 1947 incident in Roswell as well as others from all over the world. There are in-depth reports from the military, the pentagon, scientists, NASA, citizens.....it just goes on and on. There are also collections of artifacts from the Roswell UFO crash site.

 I loved this display of how they found the saucer in 1947. Reminds me of a few science project things I did back in jr. high school.

Here I am again, always trying to make peace with everyone :o)

Suddenly, with great surprise, the alien spaceship came to life and scared the
poop right out of me! Their voices sound like they have been sucking the helium out of balloons! I think they were trying to tell me that they are being held prisoner by earthlings. It was so silly and completely entertaining.

They also have a great collection of old alien movie posters

So, we finally got to the part of the exhibit where they go all X-Files with the dead alien in the air lock. Where are Scully and Mulder when we need them?

Ewe! Just Ewe!

The one profound thing he may have ever said. I think we need the aliens more than ever right now.

By the time we got to the end of the exhibit, I just wasn't feeling like myself.
I was starting to believe.........
Rowan took one look at me and said, "I think you are hungry. Let's go eat and maybe you will snap out of it".
We left the museum and noticed something strange had come over the neighborhood..........

.....There were aliens everywhere and they were directing us to Mexican food

 An alien matador? Are you kidding me?

  They led us right to the Pollo Bravo Mexican Grilled Chicken Cantina.

  .......where we proceeded to have the most delicious grilled chicken we have ever had in our lives. And we mean EVER! We split a half chicken with pinto beans (notice the red chili floating on the top), pickled red onion, hot tomato salsa, rice and corn tortilla. Everything house made and extremely alien fresh.
The best meal we have had so far on this trip. I think I can describe it as out of this world!

When we went out to get in the car, we noticed we were being watched by the light pole. They ARE out there!
 Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :o)

Stay tuned. It gets more fun.