Bottomless Lakes and Roswell

Our first stop while in New Mexico was to bottomless Lakes State Park. It’s a little oasis in the desert just outside of Roswell. All the vegetation is brown and dry, but there still was quite a bit of water in the lakes and it was crystal clear.

The next stop was Walker aviation Museum. This is located at the Roswell airport. It was one of the smallest aviation museums we ever been in, no more than a 25 x 25 room. It had some neat stuff, but it only took a few minutes to walk through. The airport in Roswell is the smallest airport I think I’ve ever been to.

The next stop was downtown Roswell. This town really embraces the whole UFO and alien theme. The street lamps look like little alien heads. The McDonald’s is in the shape of a spaceship and the Dunkin’ Donuts sign is held up by an alien.

We stopped into the international UFO museum because when you’re in Roswell, you gotta check it out. I was expecting it to be real cheesy. However, they are very serious about the alien landing. There were tons of displays to read recounting the incident from 1947. If you are not a believer after checking out the museum and all the information they had, you would be. they also had a huge file storage room with bankers boxes just full of data sheets and memos. and information about the whole UFO landing in aliens. It was crazy.

The thing I found the most interesting was that they led you to believe that the reason that UFO came to earth in 1947 is because in outer space, they saw the explosion from the atomic detonation that took place in White Sands at the Trinity Center just a few years before the alien spaceship crashed into Roswell. That’s an interesting theory.Read more