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Roswell
The year was 1947, the place was an unassuming desert town in New Mexico, and the event was perceived as so extraordinary that, more than 60 years later, Roswell remains a household name. U.F.O. enthusiasts today relish this tiny town as the U.F.O. capital of the world, citing the “Roswell Incident,” in which a craft carrying four large-headed alien beings purportedly crashed, followed closely by an entourage of military and government personnel, who swooped in to collect the wreckage. Conflicting newspaper reports came out in the days following the event – after releasing a statement confirming that they had indeed collected debris from a spaceship crash, the U.S. military later retracted it, and dismissed the flying object as nothing more than a downed weather balloon. Decide where you stand on the issue with a visit to Roswell’s International U.F.O. Museum and Research Center (www.roswellufomuseum.com), where photos, documents, and dioramas shine some light on where conspiracy theorists got their ideas about government cover-ups and alien autopsies. You can also arrange to tour the crash site with a local guide for an out-of-this-world Halloween – just be sure to keep your eye on the sky.
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