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Article: THE ROSWELL INCIDENT: Pay your respects, plus $15.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- June 29, 1997
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ROSWELL, N.M. - At UFO Ground Zero, four 20-foot-tall red sandstone megaliths rise out of the desert floor like a modern American Stonehenge.
A somber inscription carved in "alien"-style letters declares this a "universal sacred site" dedicated "to the beings who met their destinies near Roswell, New Mexico, July 1947."
"We've had people bring flowers and leave them here. People cry at the site," said Sheila Corn, 33, a rancher's wife who uses a '97 GMC Suburban with the personalized plate "I BELIVE" to drive across the 24-square-mile property.
"Hub and I felt like we needed a memorial here. Something died here," she said.
It's a ...