They Walk Among Us

“We aren’t alone,” says the conspiracy theorist who has spotted at least two UFO’s and has definitely been abducted by aliens, definitely. As you may have guessed from my opening sentence, we visited a UFO museum today, which is definitely something I thought I would never do. When we set out today, we stopped first in the town of Artesia where we looked at their bronze statue dedicated to the oil industry, which depicted a ’50’s era pump jack and four guys working it. Dad told me the statue wasn’t accurate because all the workers still had all their fingers. Yum. After we finished learning about oil in New Mexico, into the town of Roswell we went and oh boy was there a lot of extra-terrestrial related stuff. They even had alien statues standing around on street corners as

such, rather like the dinosaur statues they have around Drumheller actually. Once we parked, we walked about a block before deciding the town wasn’t worth the effort and headed straight to the museum. It was a dog friendly museum so the Kizkiz was aloud to come with us, which she was very excited about. The museum itself was really very not good. If you can picture a middle school science fair project that’s been done

on a metal trifold instead of a cardboard one, that’s basically what it looked like, except it took up the majority of the wall space, so it was a little larger than your typical middle school science fair project I guess, although not much more well done. They had to fill up one section with old alien movies and such things because they probably didn’t have enough stuff to fit on the wall. My favourite parts were the six or so UFO sighting photos taken in Calgary and the model of the UFO, surrounded by yet more alien statues, that emitted steam and flashed bright lights every once and a while. There was one wall about the supposed UFO crash around the area in 1947, which of course, is the museum’s raison d’être. Then there was some stuff

on Area 51 because that’s where all the aliens are being kept on life support, a video that ran every quarter of an hour or so on the significance of crop circles and one section that talked about the connection of ancient civilizations to outer space, complete with a complete replica of an Aztec engraving that supposedly shows a man in a space ship. It was all very bad. I was asked by one of the other visitors if I believed in aliens and I told him yes, of course, but they would hardly have any reason to visit our planet, considering the mess humans have made out of it. We spent some time in the gift shop after we had finished with the museum and then headed back out to the truck. I think I got enough bad alien theories to last me a considerable amount of time, thanks. Peace out m8s.

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