Friday, March 25, 2011

Extra-special extraterrestrial experience

Some will swear a flying saucer landed at the Hart Canyon Mesa 53 years ago. No one knows where it went. Left behind, more than a half-century after the alleged extra-terrestrial touch-down, is a friendly divide between those who believe and those who don't — those who call the event legend and those who call it truth. Regardless of their stance, many will convene this week at the 14th annual Aztec UFO Symposium, this year themed "The Truth is Out There." The town's lingering curiosity and enthusiasm about UFOs has made the symposium a constant success. It is one of the library's most successful fundraisers, bringing in several thousand dollars for literacy programs at the Aztec Public Library, event planner Katee McClure said. The "Aztec Incident" begins on March 25, 1948. A pair of oil workers, 19-year-old Doug Noland and fellow employee Bill Ferguson, were starting a normal day of work. However, when called to a brush fire on the top of a mesa just south of Aztec, the pair found something very abnormal. Noland described the discovery as a "very large metallic lens-shaped craft," Ramsey said. There were no seams to the metal, which looked to be brushed with aluminum. Quarter-sized portals reflected back and gold rings circled the outer shell. What waited inside was even more perplexing, Ramsey said. "As Doug and Bill looked through the window, they saw two small bodies slumped over what appeared to be a control panel of sorts,'" Ramsey wrote in his book. "Doug remembered, The sun was coming up by this time, but we could plainly see two bodies.'" Ramsey provides countless other testimonies from witnesses, ranging from Baptist ministers to neighboring ranchers. Still, Ramsey cannot answer where the craft was taken...more

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