Smart Investor: Earning It, September 2012
1 September, 2012
Where tourism meets conspiracy
1 September, 2012Discovery Channel Magazine, September 2012
So. You find Discovery Channel Magazine in the middle of the New Mexico desert, three hours drive from the nearest town, with a man who believes he may have found parts of an alien spacecraft, though he’s prepared to concede they could also be bits of a beer can. It’s a peaceful place: the scrubby, barren emptiness of the windswept high desert, similar to so much of the vast American southwest. But this is no ordinary patch of nothingness, for it is perhaps the most revered place in all UFO and conspiracy theory folklore. This is the Roswell crash site.
Roswell today is an unexceptional American town, a long way from anywhere in southeast New Mexico, but there are little things that set it apart. There are the little green aliens all over the front of the local Wal-Mart, for example, and the flying saucer protruding from the McDonald’s. The focal point of the town – the bedrock of its tourist economy, in fact – is not a church or a town hall, a theatre or a park, but a UFO museum. That’s because Roswell is the home of the most enduring UFO mystery of them all. It is, unquestionably, a cover-up; the only question is, of what?
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