By Peter Anderson Highway 17, the road I drive south to Alamosa, is also known as “The Cosmic Highway.” Why? UFOs I suppose. At the very least, alien aficionados can find each other on the observation deck at the UFO Watchtower. And then there’s the billboard, earth as seen from the moon, the great revelatory …
Brief by Central Staff
UFOs – July 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
Look, up in the sky
We had hoped that the San Luis Valley had a regional monopoly on mysterious supernal objects, but now the south side of South Park has a sighting.
Late at night on May 23, several residents in and near Lake George saw a fireball streak across the sky, and some said it appeared to crash in the area.
Brief by Central Staff
UFOs – November 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine
Nevada has been promoting one of its highways as a good place to watch for UFOs.
And the Comfort Inn in Falkirk, Scotland — where 350 sightings have been reported since 1992 — held an “extraterrestrial weekend” last spring; it was so successful that the hotel now promotes it as a regular event.
So it shouldn’t be a surprise that the San Luis Valley, featured in at least two books and some magazine articles as a site of mysterious and perhaps extra-terrestrial activity, will start catering to this form of tourism.
Review by Ed Quillen
UFOs – February 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine
Enter the Valley – UFOS, Religious Miracles, Cattle Mutilations, and Other Unexplained Phenomena in the San Luis Valley
by Christopher O’Brien
Published in 1999 by St. Martin’s Press
ISBN 0-312-96835-3
Column by Hal Walter
UFOs – February 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Some years ago, when my wife and I were looking for a new home after selling our old house in Wetmore, we had our eyes on a smallish A-frame log house near Rosita.
Among the palatial amenities was a fairly expansive view of the Sangre de Cristo Range. The agent told us that the last person to look at the house had given her a business card identifying him as a “UFO investigator.” She said he was interested in the place because he would be able to watch UFOs cruise from his living room.
Letter from Judy Lewallen
UFO book – February 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
Dear Martha Quillen:
You were much too kind to Chris O’Brien in your review of his book, The Mysterious Valley. Not to say that we shouldn’t take these allegations of strange occurrences lightly. I do believe that mind-boggling events do happen in the San Luis Valley. I am just not sure that these happenings are the effect of outside forces.
Review by Martha Quillen
UFOs – October 1996 – Colorado Central Magazine
The Mysterious Valley
by Christopher O’Brien
Published in1996
by St. Martin’s Press
ISBN 0-312-95883-8
Brief by Central Staff
UFOs – December 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Lost In Space
On Nov. 12, Fox TV’s Sightings featured UFO activity in both Salida and the San Luis Valley — although UFO researchers never seemed to note the difference.
Brief by Central Staff
UFOs – October 1995 – Colorado Central Magazine
Tim Edwards, a 42-year-old Salidan, was outdoors working on some house gutters on the morning of Aug. 27 when his six-year-old daughter asked “Daddy, what’s that up in the sky?”