The truth isn't out there.0:09
The annual UFO Festival Festival in Roswell, New Mexico attracts thousands of visitors each year to this remote desert town.0:17
This year we sent travel journalist Ruth Bradley to take part in a new UFO discovery tour to visit key sites in the area where the famous 1947 Roswell UFO case unfolded.0:39
Did her out-of-this-world experience make her a true believer?0:54
When I was first asked by my editor to report on a UFO discovery tour, my heart sank.0:59
I just couldn't understand why I was being sent.1:07
A few days later, I was greeted at the airport in New Mexico by the tour's friendly guide and the other enthusiastic UFO spotters in my group.1:13
We were driven to the hotel along busy freeways lined with UFO diners, UFO souvenir shops, and even UFO motels.1:25
Little grey aliens stared down at us from billboards and road signs with huge insect eyes.1:36
I couldn't help smiling at these amusing sights.1:44
If nothing else, I had the feeling I would be having some fun on this assignment.1:48
The following morning we were taken to the spot in Roswell where a cattle farmer, Mac Brazel, came across some large pieces of metal and a huge hole in the ground on the 8th of July, 1947.1:54
Our guide told us that shortly after Mr Brazel reported what he had seen, the newspaper wrote that he had seen a flying saucer.2:11
The next day, however, they changed the story and reported that it wasn't a UFO at all, but simply a weather balloon.2:21
I wandered away from the group and looked around in the grass, half hoping to find one last piece of debris from the craft.2:31
Instead, I disturbed an enormous rattlesnake and quickly made my way back.2:40
I had to admit the story so far was fascinating, and I found myself looking forward to the next stage of the tour where we would be shown Building 84.2:47
This was the huge aircraft hangar on the old army base where the remains of the strange craft were taken to be examined.3:00
It was an impressive sight.3:09
Eyewitness accounts later described the craft as unlike anything that had ever been seen on Earth.3:12
They said it was made of a material as light as plastic, as strong as steel, impossible to burn, and covered in strange hieroglyphics.3:19
Others described seeing alien bodies.3:30
The day ended with a visit to the UFO Museum.3:34
And I was fascinated by some creepy sketches of alien bodies on autopsy tables, which were drawn by a nurse working in the base hospital at the time.3:38
As we headed back to the hotel, I stared up into the starry night and couldn't help wondering if anyone, or anything, was looking down.3:50
The next day, we visited the town of Socorro, where in 1964 Lonnie Zamora, a respected police officer, reported an oval-shaped object with two small creatures inside.4:01
As he drew near, blue flames burst from the craft and it soared into the sky.4:16
When Zamora came back with other officers, all that could be seen were burn marks on the ground and strange footprints.4:23
The locals in this area have many stories like this one, and I asked whether we were going to go back home with a UFO story of our own.4:32
'Wait until tonight,' the tour guide told me.4:44
That night, we camped out in one of the Nevada desert's UFO hotspots.4:48
As we looked up into the dark sky, one couple from Phoenix, Arizona, told me about the night in March 1997 when they saw a weird formation of lights hovering above the city.4:54
The strange phenomenon had been witnessed by over 10,000 locals, and there is even video footage of it.5:11
I was a bit disappointed that I saw nothing worth photographing that night.5:20
What better souvenir to take back to the editor than a photo of a real UFO?5:25
I'm still doubtful whether UFOs and aliens exist.5:32
However, after spending a night under the stars in the eerie Nevada desert, I have to admit that if intelligent life from a far-off world decided to land on Earth, I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was the5:37
place they chose to visit.5:52
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