European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 scene stars and stripes Roswell ufos fest commemorates Landing june 2007 i o in is the truth located in this Remote City in new Mexico driving alone Down a stretch of desolate High Way in route to i begin to understand Why conspiracy buffs have Long argued that aliens crash landed in the desert Here a Hal Century darkness engulfs desert a misshapen yellow Moon hangs in the husks of abandoned buildings litter the has an alien invasion already taken place i notice a blinking Light in the sky but quickly discern its an being out Kere by yourself is enough to make you think i do know there Are other things out there in the said John who was working the desk of the International ufos museum and research Center on Roswell North main Street when i i have secretly wanted to visit Roswell since i was a what i got during my Brief visit something Ive contemplated doing for years was a lesson in How a Small City in the Middle of the american Southwest became enshrined in american pop the 60th anniversary of the so called Roswell incident took place july 58 at the cites annual ufos City officials say people were expected for the which included Tours and Lon term plans Are underway As Well for a of themed amusement Complete with an indoor roller coaster that would take passengers on a simulated alien Abdul the dubbed alien Apex could open As Early As the City has received a legislative appropriation for initial but the Park would be privately built and the original Roswell incident occurred photos by a a staged alien autopsy is on display at the area 51 exhibit at the alien zone in Lon term plans Are underway for a of themed amusement in july outside the a rancher the creatures look utterly incapable named Mack Brazel went to Check on some sheep after a night of he claimed he found some strange neighbors told Brazel he might have pieces of a flying on july a local military no of the of such malevolent acts As abduction and brain the museum takes visitors through a beginning with newspaper clips and printed affidavits from Many who claim to have intimate knowledge of the for an extra visitors can take an audio tour with a decidedly Low tech cassette the convoluted timeline of what happened after the Roswell incident shows just Why there Are so Many conflicting stories about the office issued a press release saying that the museum freely mixes pieces of a crashed disk were recon documentary materials and a Story featured on the front Page among the displays Are explanations of of the Roswell daily record claimed a crop circles and an exhibit detailing flying Saucer was captured the paper is How roswel1 has been portrayed in pop now reproduced and sold to know there Are other things out there in the John International ufos museum and research Center other news agencies picked up on the event albeit in a cursory a revised release was soon sent out that said the material was a weather but stories about requests for tiny coffins and a nefarious plot began to and Roswell went from Small town to alien while what exactly happened More than a Hal Century ago in the desert remains but it did inspire me to drive hundreds of Miles across the desert to a town of roughly its curious How aliens Are almost inevitably depicted by those who claim Treyve been visited by extraterrestrials As diminutive with Oval Green skin and do shaped the museums most popular and photographed exhibition is purely fictional the set of an alien autopsy from the 1994 television movie the vivid in which doctors pre pare to examine an emaciated alien is on a permanent loan to the the gift shop takes up a Good chunk of the first floor and offers every conceive after a fitful sleep at the Best West extraterrestrial gift alien Plush i rubbed my Scalp to search for any alien shot glasses and magnets curious implants or and headed that say i a wide selection of out Early to spend the morning Down a tourist photographs an alien outside a shirt and souvenir shop in any alien souvenir imaginable can be found in the towns i was greeted at the ufos museum a former movie theater by an alien Dummy wearing a Santa Glaus the Light posts on the streets of Roswell feature alien Heads wearing Santa Glaus books and documents on the Roswell incident is also for theres also a research Library for those inclined to further study the alien Well Tell people the Story of what happened and Tell them to make up their own Turner alien eyes adorn a lamp Post along main Street in downtown reminders Are everywhere of the towns identity As an alien