New Mexico’s UFO Records Declassified
ON MARCH 8, 1949, an aircraft systems inspector at Los Alamos National Laboratory looked up to see “an elliptical, rather stubby, aluminum body” surrounded by “billowy flame.” While watching it…
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Tag: UFOs & Aliens
The New MeX-Files
LAS CRUCES, AUGUST 20, 1949 Clyde Tombaugh, who famously discovered Pluto, was in his Las Cruces backyard with his wife and mother-in-law on a clear, starry night when “he saw a series of…
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Editor’s Letter: Land of Odd
BENJAMIN RADFORD GREW UP in Corrales during the 1970s and ’80s with some big-time FOMO. All the sensational mysteries seemed far, far away: Bigfoot prowled the Pacific Northwest, the Bermuda Triangle…
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New Mexico’s Weird, Embrace It
NO OTHER CARS SHARED the road as I drove I-25 south on a frigid January night in 2023. I fiddled with the heater, trying to clear the condensation from my windshield so I could better peer into the…
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Decoding the Roswell Crash
IF YOU FIND YOURSELF at the International UFO Museum & Research Center, in Roswell, there’s a good chance you’ll bump into researcher Dennis Balthaser, who’s been giving tours and talks for more than…
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New Mexico’s Greatest Mysteries
WHO BUILT THE LORETTO CHAPEL STAIRCASE? Catholics are no strangers to mysteries of faith, but the Loretto Chapel staircase takes that divine whodunit to another level. Built in the late 1800s, the…
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Editor’s Letter: Ghost Tales
GROWING UP IN SMALL-TOWN OHIO, I heard plenty of ghost stories and urban legends: the creepy old man who patrolled the woods of Snake Hill, the haunted graveyard directly behind my buddy’s backyard…
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Person to Meet: Donald Schmitt
R OSWELL’S INTERNATIONAL UFO MUSEUM lead investigator Donald Schmitt came to New Mexico from Chicago in 1989 as a non-believer. But after speaking with witnesses and looking at the evidence, Schmitt…
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Roswell Declassified
PAUL SEMONES flicks on the handheld microphone that pipes his voice through the speakers of his 15-seat van and points to an unassuming midcentury house. The Roswell UFO Tour guide tells us it’s the…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See two exhibitions in one gallery. Santa Fe’s Hecho Gallery celebrates the opening of two new exhibitions on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. Award-winning author and illustrator Zahra Marwan presents 27…
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