JJ you have left out the best part - the probing!

Sent by Robert Paterson | 3:28 PM ET | 06-13-2007

bigbro says: I've been here in Roswell for about three weeks, from South Florida, going to hang around for the UFO Festival as something different from 4rh of July on the beach and try to figure out what the Bill Richardson for President situation is about.

This place looks like West Texas, except it's New Mexico. If you think it's hot in July on the beach, try the desert. You know that saying 105 in the shade....that's a cold snap around here. Down the road is the world's longest airport runway. Military and civilian pilots of all stripes and colors practice their emergeny takeoffs and landings. It's not unusual a frighteningly large 747 or a stealth bomber comes flying overhead treetop level and bank in to do a practice emergency landing. There's miles and miles of flat land with underground military bases. At night there's all kinds of aircraft in the air that don't belong to Delta or American airlines. Then every once in a while the ground will just start shaking for no apparent reason at all. Most likely underground testing of some strange weapons, like that 700 ton Divine Strake ammonium nitrate bomb.

Take my word for it, there's some really, really, really strange stuff going on around herem and UFOs my not be the strangest part of it all. This is where the border patrol has their training center. Everything is hush-hush super top secret. A guy could get shot asking too many questions. I'm going to need some beach and beer time to get my head cleared out for a while. You got to approach this stuff with a strange sense of humor if you want to survive.

Thinking about New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's run for President in 2008.
New Mexico is kind of different. It ain't Mexico. And it ain't exactly the United States. Which is what we need. We need to move the White House to Roswell.......bigbro

Sent by Fred CAll | 10:22 AM ET | 06-25-2007

Tell the truth about the facts around the ROSWELL CRASH of Spacecraft in 1947.
Have we had visitors from other worlds
or not? Have a REAL debate about all of
this with real debates among the persons
running for President. Not a phony debate like the networks like to do.

Sent by Bob Sweeney | 9:16 AM ET | 07-23-2007

I believe in 2010 the U.S. Goverment is set to release some information about UFOs that has been classified. It is suppose to be shocking. I can't wait to see it!

Sent by Shari Braun | 5:46 PM ET | 08-12-2007

Hey, Harold....Since you say you are an amateur astronomer, and you were in Carlsbad recently, here's a few reasons you might detour to visit Roswell if you are in the area again.

The Goddard Planetrium and astronomy club
www.roswellastronomyclub.com/planetar.htm

They've got Robert Goddard's machine shop set up like it was when Goddard was firing rockets into the New Mexico sky back in the 30s and 40s. They even have on display several of Goddard's earliest rockets.

You get to learn about the historical relationship between Goddard and Charles Lindbergh, Werner Von Braun and the Guggenheim family here in Roswell.

There are plenty of nice hotels in Roswell. It's where the CIA people stay when they're here in Roswell. And I'm not exaggerating, Roswell if a Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. They have got some unusual stuff going on out there in the desert. Of course, you can't go out there to find out what they are doing.

If you play golf, there's two nice golf courses where the CIA men in black play in between their clandestine whatever-they-are-doing out in the desert sprints.

But just seeing the planetarium and how Robert Goddard had his machine shop set-up to fabricate rockets would well be down your alley.

fred camorra call

Sent by fred camorra call | 7:27 PM ET | 01-03-2008

Fred,
Sounds really neat. Maybe next trip!
I would really like to meet you sometime. I enjoy reading you, in blognito.

I don't play golf (my rifle shots scare other players). The wife is "brand loyal" to Hilton/Hampton. Got any of those?

Sent by Harold | 10:48 AM ET | 01-04-2008

Hampton Inn & Suites
hamptoninn1.hilton.com

3607 N Main St
Roswell, NM 88201
(505) 623-5151

You can get a room right between the CIA men in black and the...ya know, we don't know who those guys are in invisible stealth capes.......anyway, the Hampton is popular with the men in black. It's right down the street from the Roswell Art Center and Planetarium and Goddard's garage.

Every July they have the annual UFO festival. You could meet George Noory. The Orlando people who built Disney are breaking ground for a gigantic Alien Theme Park scheduled to open in 2012.

And always remember: They see you coming before you see them. Whomever 'they' might be on any given occasion.

If you go looking for Area 51, don't confuse Area 51 Speedway with Area 51 in Groom Lake, Nevada. That's a running joke around here. People stereotypically think Area 51 is in Roswell. Area 51 is where they developed the U2 spy plane and other things we don't know about.

The runway at Area 51 is longer than the runway at Roswell, where the Enola Gay took off on its way to Hiroshima with the bomb from Alamogordo. Roswell's Walker Air Force Base was, at one time, command headquarters for the Strategic Air Command.

Onward to the beach. I need beach. I need the Bermuda Triangle.

Fort Lauderdale International was formerly the Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station where the famed Bermuda Triangle squadron took off to get lost before Steven Spielberg found them in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

The Truth Is Out There (point, point).

fred camorra call

Sent by fred camorra call | 12:29 PM ET | 01-04-2008

Oh, one more thing. A true New Mexico/Washington story.

And I'm not making any of this up.

Neighbor down the road, he and his wife go to Washington on vacation. They go to the Smithsonian Air/Space Museum, where they sell replicas of famous flying machines.

My neighbor, he wants a replica of Howard Hughes's 'Spruce Goose.' Except the Smithsonian is temporarily out of the popular item. They tell him that for a small fee, when they get a new model in, they will mail it to him.

Six months go by, no 'Spruce Goose.' So, he calls the Smithsonian, where the kindly Smithsonian person informs him that they don't mail outside the United States.

To whit, he says, "Do you have an Atlas handy there at the Smithsonian? Well, will you look at that Atlas and you will see, to the left of Texas, the state of New Mexico. Which is firmly implanted within the borders of the United States."

The Smithsonian refunded all his money and sent him the 'Spruce Goose' gratis.

fred camorra call

Sent by fred camorra call | 12:51 PM ET | 01-04-2008

Hey Fred,
Thanks for the NM info. I'll see if/when the wife wants to make another trip that direction.

Take care in FL.
Squeeze a few limes for me!

Sent by Harold | 2:38 PM ET | 01-04-2008

Rudy has been in Florida so long he can vote here. Saw this in DFW. Am having too much sun time on the beach to get serious.

fred camorra call

UFO awareness group really isn't so far out
09:08 PM CST on Sunday, December 30, 2007
By JEFFREY WEISS / The Dallas Morning News

JOHN F. RHODES/DMN
Attendees of the December meeting of the North Texas Mutual UFO Network watched a lecture given by Jim Mars, author of Alien Agenda. After the video, Mr. Mars took questions from the group via cellphone.
So when Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich was asked in a recent debate about his belief in unidentified flying objects, the North Texas members of Mutual UFO Network weren't surprised when it turned into a political punch line.
On the other hand, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has also addressed UFOs seriously on the campaign trail. And last month, a group of highly credentialed aviation experts from around the world called for more official investigations of UFOs.

Sent by fred camorra call | 12:50 PM ET | 01-07-2008