International UFO Museum and Research Center

I’ve probably mentioned, several times, that most of my adult life was spent in the birthplace of Benedict Arnold.  It always amazed me that the city cannot make any decisions that benefit the tax payer.  Well, he was a traitor you say.  I will quickly point out that Salem, MA makes millions off of its history of the government approved murders if innocent people who were accused of being witches!  Winslow, AZ is on the rebound thanks to its decision to popularize itself on a quick mention in the Eagles song “Take it Easy”.  Well the winner of the ‘spin it to your benefit’ contest is Roswell, NM.  By the way the correct pronunciation is “Rozwell”.  Roswell, NM should be a stop on any travel list.  There is a lot to do and plenty of restaurants to enjoy, we recommend “Pepper’s”.  The most obvious stop when in Roswell is the International UFO Museum & Research Center.  The center is right in the downtown district and is surrounded by UFO themed gift shops. The center is focused largely on the 1947 Roswell Crash and later supposed UFO incidents in the United States and elsewhere. The center was founded in 1991 and is located in a former movie theater from the 1930s. The museum contains an extensive library and exhibits all focused on the history of UFO encounters.

For those who are unfamiliar with the ‘Roswell Incident”, an unidentified flying object crashed on a ranch northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, sometime during the first week of July 1947. Rancher W.W. “Mack” Brazel said later he found debris from the crash as he and the son of Floyd and Loretta Proctor rode their horses out to check on sheep after a fierce thunderstorm the night before. Brazel said that as they rode along, he began to notice unusual pieces of what seemed to be metal debris scattered over a large area. Upon further inspection, he said, he saw a shallow trench several hundred feet long had been gouged into the ground.  A day or two later, Brazel drove into Roswell, and reported the incident to Sherriff George Wilcox, who reported it to Maj. Jesse Marcel, intelligence officer for the 509th Bomb Group, stationed at Roswell Army Air Field.

The debris site was closed for several days while the wreckage was cleared, and Schmitt and Randle say that when William Woody and his father tried to locate the area of the crash they had seen, Woody said they were stopped by military personnel who ordered them out of the area.

The military has tried to convince the news media from that day forward that the object found near Roswell was nothing more than a weather balloon.