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Seventy-five miles north of Carlsbad, the small
ranching town of ROSWELL is renowned because
an alien spaceship supposedly crash-landed nearby on July 4, 1947.
The commander of the local air force base authorized a press statement
announcing that they had retrieved the wreckage of a flying saucer,
and despite a follow-up denial within a day claiming that it was
in fact a weather balloon the story has kept running. In 1997,
as 100,000 X-Files fanatics descended upon Roswell for a six-day
festival to mark the "Incident's" fiftieth anniversary,
the US government revealed that the errant weather balloon had
crashed while monitoring the atmosphere for evidence of Soviet
nuclear tests. Nonetheless, their imaginations further stimulated
by the TV series Roswell High , UFO theorists remain unconvinced.
Despite its best intentions, and the wishful thinking
of the truly weird clientele who drift in from the plains, the
central International UFO Museum , 114 N Main
St (daily: MaySept 9am5pm, OctApril 10am5pm; free), inadvertently
exposes the whole tawdry business as transparent nonsense. Its
showpiece is a model of the notorious "alien autopsy";
built for the movie Roswell , you can't help suspecting it was
also featured in the grainy "documentary" autopsy footage
that created a brief international sensation in 1995.
By way of contrast, the longstanding Roswell
Museum , 100 W 11th St (MonSat 9am5pm, Sun 15pm; free),
boasts an excellent, multifaceted collection with nary an alien
corpse to be seen. Its most sensational section celebrates pioneer
rocket scientist Robert Goddard (18821945), while historical artifacts
elsewhere range from armor and pikes brought by Spanish conquistadors
to astronaut Harrison Schmitt's spacesuit. A huge gallery also
displays Southwestern art by Henriette Wyeth, Peter Hurd and Georgia
O'Keeffe.
