UFO Travel: Bon Jovi Slept Here
Socorro, New Mexico's UFO cred comes in both fiction and shaky unverified nonfiction flavors. Besides being high desert--ideal for spotting unusual night sky activity--Socorro boasts the oft-filmed extraterrestrial-hunting Very Large Array. It's also the site of a well-documented close encounter.
In 1964, a local policeman investigated a bright flash on the outskirts of town, coming upon metallic oval shaped craft. Small men in white coveralls were wandering around outside the ship, and hopped back in and took off when startled. The incident is notable for the media frenzy that followed and the physical evidence it produced: burned bushes, fused sand glass and small footprints around the area. There's not much around Socorro today to memorialize the incident but it remains one of the best documented UFO sightings on record.
A slightly more tangible tourist attraction is the Very Large Array cluster of radio telescopes. An active part of the SETI alien hunt, this field of dishes has been featured in "Contact," "Independence Day" and "2010: The Year We Make Contact." Bon Jovi also stopped by to shoot the video for "Everyday." The VLA is open year round during daylight hours and there's even a gift shop, though there's no guarantee of an alien sighting of your own.
Related Stories:
· Very Large Array [Official Site]
· UFO Travel coverage [Jaunted]
· UFO Travel Map [Jaunted]
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