From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:25:15 -0500
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Subject: Aliens Help Roswell To Flourish



Source: mywesttexas.com

http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=3D2288&dept_id=3D475621&newsid=
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02/26/2003

Reports Of Space Aliens Help Roswell To Flourish
By Burr Williams - Sibley Nature Center

Do you believe an alien spacecraft crashed on the evening of
July 4, 1947 northwest of Roswell, N.M.?

This is what allegedly took place:

At 11:30 that night, Rancher Mac Brazel heard a loud noise,
different from the thunder occurring at the same time. In the
morning he went to perform routine ranch work and found a debris
field "three football fields wide and three-quarter of a mile
long." He stopped and picked up a tow sack full of the debris.

On the 6th, Brazel brought his sack to the sheriff in Roswell,
who contacted Air Force Intelligence Officer Jesse Marcel at
Roswell Army Airfield, who went with Brazel to the ranch. They
collected more material and brought it back from town. The local
funeral home received a call about how many child-sized caskets
are in stock, and was asked how to preserve bodies that have
been exposed to the elements.

The funeral home director, Glenn Dennis, then went to the air
base, expecting to receive the bodies, but a nurse on duty told
him to leave immediately. A day later the nurse met Dennis, who
told him she saw big-eyed aliens on the examining table. The
next day the nurse disappeared, and was never heard from again.

On the same day of Dennis' experiences, the commander of the air
base ordered a press release about the crash. The local
newspaper related the story (and since then the newspaper has
sold more than 50,000 copies of the page with the story.) Marcel
flew to Fort Worth with some of the debris and spread it out in
front of General Ramey, and was told to step out of the room.
When he returned, the debris had been replaced with debris from
a weather balloon, a photograph was taken, and on July 9 many
newspapers printed the picture of the weather balloon material,
along with a story that informed the world that no flying saucer
was found at Roswell.

Today, in 2003, 400 people a day visit the UFO Museum and
Research Center. The morning that Deborah and I visited, cars
with license plates from Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Chihuahua,
Quebec, Washington State, South Dakota, Missouri, Illinois and
several other states filled the parking lot. Ninety thousand
tourists visit Roswell each year, increasing city hotel tax
revenues by 35 percent in the last four years. Alien-seeking
tourists have pumped more than five million dollars a year into
the local economy.

Thousands of folks have seen unusual lights and shapes in the
sky. Many come to Roswell to compare what they have seen with
the sightings of others. A number of people have moved to
Roswell to be part of the UFO "interpretative" community,
attending and giving lectures, writing articles and maintaining
Web sites.

Almost every store downtown sells something adorned with an
alien design. There is a Crashdown Caf=E9, with a flying saucer
crashed into its fa=E7ade, for example. Many small towns in the
west are declining in population, suffering economically, and
slowly decaying, but not Roswell. The resurgence began in the
early 1990's, after Glenn Dennis and others that experienced the
events of 1947 decided to make sure no one forgot and began the
UFO Museum and Research Center.

This July 4 and 5, the city will hold its UFO Festival. The town
of 50,000 will swell to 75,000. Every motel and campground will
be filled. Speakers will present their theories, musicians will
fill stages, sci-fi movies will thrill audiences, a parade of
lights will sparkle, kids will present an alien fashion show,
and dozens of vendors will hock everything from blow-up plastic
aliens to books to flying saucer burgers.

Roswell has three alien museums. The UFO Museum and Research
Center is the largest, housed in an old theater downtown. Along
with equipment and clothing of the 1940s, ample reading material
is displayed -- dozens of the affidavits of the eyewitnesses,
plus copies of various newspaper stories written at the time. A
dummy of an alien used in a TV movie is the most photographed
object in the museum. The museum also has a library, filled with
books and articles on aliens and UFOs. This museum has no entry
fee, unlike the others.

The other two museums are not as well funded. Near the airport
is the UFO Enigma Museum, featuring a recreation of the
purported crash site. South of town is the Midway Sighting UFO
Museum, where a visitor can watch videos of alien UFOs filmed by
the owners.

Across the street from the UFO Museum and Research Center is the
Alien Resistance Headquarters, funded by three local churches.
The proprietor, Guy Malone, is a Christian who says he has seen
aliens. He believes they are fallen angels. His mission is to
prevent folks from joining cults that are based on contacts with
aliens. Those cults, like the Raelians of human cloning fame,
say aliens are here to help us, while Malone says the fallen
angels mated with human women and created a hybrid race that has
brought us the incredible modern day high-technological world
that will soon bring the downfall of human society.

Visitors can go to a purported crash site as well (at least
three different places have supporters claiming it is the
correct site.) Not far from town (and close enough so bus tours
are offered during the UFO Festival) Landowner Hub Corn will
lead the tour for $15 a person, and will even allow camping for
$98 a night. No artifacts are there -- it is just a lonesome
piece of prairie where a person can give free rein to their
imagination.

There are other reasons to visit Roswell. Bottomless Lakes State
Park is an amazing series of water-filled sinkholes 13 miles
east of town, offering camping, fishing, swimming and hiking. At
the Bitterlakes National Wildlife Refuge, 11 miles east of town,
a visitor can observe thousands of snow geese and sandhill
cranes in the winter in the saline lakes of the refuge. Both
sites offer bizarre landscapes.

During the growing season a person can look for and learn about
the 90 species of dragonflies found in the refuge (the most
diverse dragonfly community anywhere in the world.) On Aug. 22
and 23 of this year, the Friends of the Bitterlakes will hold
their Dragonfly Festival, with speakers, artwork, craft shows
and tours of the refuge.

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Burr Williams is education director for the Sibley Learning
Center.

C. MyWestTexas.com 2003

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