Word: ufo
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...ROSWELL: As every UFO enthusiast knows, an alien spacecraft putatively crashed in the desert near this New Mexico town in 1947?and the U.S. military tried to cover it up. At the Roswell International UFO Museum, visitors can examine hundreds of autopsy drawings, sworn affidavits and newspaper reports from the time of the crash. And pick up a tasty Alien Cookie Kit in the gift shop...
...BONNYBRIDGE: If it's a close encounter you're after, go to the UFO capital of the world. Over the past decade there have been an incredible?some might say unlikely?60,000 UFO sightings in and around this small Scottish town. That's 10 for each resident...
ROSWELL: As every UFO enthusiast knows, an alien spacecraft putatively crashed in the desert near this New Mexico town in 1947 - and the U.S. military tried to cover it up. At the Roswell International UFO Museum, visitors can examine hundreds of autopsy drawings, sworn affidavits and newspaper reports from the time of the crash. And pick up a tasty Alien Cookie Kit in the gift shop for $7.95. AVEBURY: For two decades, the fields surrounding this English village have become a hot spot for crop circles (pictured) - said to be crafted (at night, presumably) by artistic visitors from another planet...
...want to be the next big boss of Hong Kong films," he says. "Then I could just call a distributor in Korea or Taiwan and say I have a new movie and they would take it without question." He has been founding production companies, such as Alan & Eric and UFO, since the late 1980s and most recently established an entertainment conglomerate called Star East Holdings Ltd., which last year produced the movies The Eye and Three as well as the TV drama The New Option. He spends much of his time in China, where he is trying to strengthen ties...
...Chinese fascination with interplanetary life isn't entirely new. Believers point to a 4th century text called the Collected Legacies, which describes a "moon boat" that floated above China every 12 years. Today's focus is on the science of UFOs-something tolerable to a Chinese Communist Party that advocates "scientific socialism." It helps that heavy hitters such as the former president of Beijing Aerospace University have long advised UFO-research organizations. The hard-science bent means it's acceptable to publish research on close-encounter stories. It's not O.K., however, to wonder if such stories result from people...