The Little Green Men of Roswell

ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO — The little green men are everywhere. They stand in front of storefronts, in the lobby of the Holiday Inn where I stayed, and peek out of shop windows. A much larger green man holds up the sign for Dunkin’ and Baskin Robbins — a truly giant alien. This pleasant city of 43,000 folks in southeastern New Mexico bills itself as the UFO Capital of the World. In July 1947, the now-closed Roswell Army Air Field (later renamed Walker Air Force Base) initially issued a press release stating that a “flying disc” had been recovered after a rancher found debris north of the town....

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