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we have pretty bizarre things happened
here most of the people I know down here
have seen something bizarre at one time
or another and we don't discuss it a
whole bunch but they believe they think
there's something going on too
My partner and I moved to the San Luis
Valley to raise cattle did not move here
for UFOs you know and didn't even
realize that this was a hotspot of the
nation for sightings and I mean nothing
about him anyway well then I started
meeting some of the locals down here and
they all had UFO stories I mean one
after another after another even to the
point where there was a real estate
company years ago that would make people
who bought land from them sign a
disclaimer saying that they were aware
that this there was UFO activity in this
valley so anyway it got to the point I'd
giggle and say we need a UFO Watchtower
never ever think you might ever do it
well after four and a half years of
struggling with cows because they don't
eat sand real well they've out broke me
so I was talking to one of the farmers
one day and I said you know I've had to
sell the cows I don't want to sell my
land and he said you need to put up that
UFO Watchtower you giggled about you'd
have fun
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it was just gonna be a little ol
mom-and-pop business we'd be open in the
summer closed in the winter
catch that tourist traffic off the
highway you know never thinking we would
ever see anything from here I mean that
that was not even a vision well from the
time we opened we started seeing things
and as of now and this is November we
have had 67 sightings from just here
since we opened
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one night we had about 60 people over
here and there was a couple sitting out
front on the bench and the woman jumps
up just screaming do you see him do you
see him they were so high up but she
hadn't pointed him out I would have
never seen him and there was one here
and one here and they were moving
remarkably fast towards the north the
one in the front stopped and it waited
for the one behind to catch up and when
that went caught up the two of them took
off and there was a streak of light
across the sky
another night it looked like a shooting
star and it was over here on the other
side of the sand dunes and it's coming
down I'm watching this shooting star
okay and it gets below the peaks of the
mountains and like it lost his momentum
and has started to float like this well
see that makes sense to my weird mind
but anyway what didn't make sense is it
went straight back up so that it wasn't
it wasn't a shooting star as so many
bizarre things have happened here in the
last 12 years and and I tell folks maybe
you don't quite get all of this okay but
you better have an open mind because
something's going on up there in that
cosmos that we just don't know about and
do I believe now you betcha
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I've seen some pretty strange things
I've seen things that I've never even
heard of before
I think there's a lot of things in this
universe that we don't understand and
maybe we're not meant to Elvis hey buddy
buddy oh there he is
how you doing big dog hey that's my big
boy yeah my big boy
I was born in Texas but the good sense
to move to Colorado when I was six
months old and been in the valley almost
ever since my name is Jay young and I'm
manager of Colorado Gators reptile Park
I've known Judy for quite a while I
guess I went to the UFO Watchtower
probably the first year she opened it it
was a novel idea she knew there was all
these sightings in the San Luis Valley
and as she's told you I'm sure she's
seen things since then you know about
snippy the horse right the first
documented animal mutilation possible
you know UFO mutilation happened here in
the San Luis Valley back in the late 60s
and it was a horse named snippy the
horse it's just totally stripped bare
but where the meet ended on the neck the
flesh was Carter eyes there was no blood
in the horse's body and there were no
signs
any predators or anything strange around
it we just found this horse with the
flesh missing off of his head and we had
an ostrich disappear as missing to this
day it's been like four years now nobody
ever saw this ostrich so we decided
named him sniffy if he ever does show up
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I think the San Luis Valley probably
draws a lot of supernatural or
extraterrestrial activity possibly
because of the geothermal water and
there's a lot of crazy people here who
probably see things that they that they
didn't actually see - but the San Luis
Valley draws strange people so it might
as well draw strange aircraft as well
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some say that it's the vastness of the
valley because it's so huge and not
highly populated others say it's a
spirituality of the valley others say
that there's an 80 base in mount Blanca
over here well all of this sounds really
good
you know but it didn't make sense to my
mind then I got a magazine from Great
Britain and in that magazine that said
that the majority of their sightings was
where there were hot water wells that
makes sense from one end of this valley
to the other we have geothermal water we
have very little atmosphere here at our
elevation we have very little pollution
a very clear skies you know we do a lot
of watching just from our front yard
Judy built a nice place for people to go
and and hang out they didn't have a
front yard here
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the folks who come here to visit I
always first thing I ask is have you
ever had any UFO experiences some will
come right on out and say oh yeah but
you know folks have made fun of them for
relating their stories and and I said
how can people do that people have these
experiences don't everyone whether
they're skeptical or not everybody kind
of wants to think we're not alone yeah
seeing lights in the sky and the objects
that seem to hover
then take off quickly I was up in the
mountains with my friend New York Denver
and it was the middle of the day and we
saw something that was just hovering for
a long time it's just like an orb that
was brightening and dimming but it was
still for a really long time and then it
moved I was just left my house on my way
into town and had some lights coming
over towards us from more Blancas as it
was coming towards us it seemed to come
down like get brighter and brighter as
it was coming down it's pretty good ways
up there though and all of a sudden went
from going straight at us and took an
immediate right and went off and just
disappeared off into the sky we have
what we call the mystery lights you know
it's lights we see over top of the
mountains not moving not blinking so
it's not really an airplane or nothing
doesn't look like quite like a star so
we don't really know what it is so we
just called it mystery light driving up
highway 17 one night I saw three lights
off to the left and then they they went
over the mountains and less than ten
seconds I calculated it out that they
were there was no sonic boom from them
taking off breaking the sound barrier so
that was strange and then and then I
calculated it out they were going you
know upwards of 21,000 miles per hour
I've actually never experienced anything
and I've never seen anything myself in
the area but I believe it you know in
the cities in the valley you know
there's a lot of stuff going on a lot of
buildings but out here in the open you
can really see everything in the sky so
I'm sure there has been plenty of
sightings out here there's plenty of
room for it
if extraterrestrials were mean we
wouldn't be here kids because they have
their technology with so much greater
than ours
we wouldn't be
there's a painting over there and the
woman who did the painting as an
abductee she has been abducted for oh
gosh since she was just a child and
she's 50 now and and now she tries to
make it a positive experience and yeah
she was scared but that's human nature
were gonna be scared about the unknown
you know I used to watch Mulder on TV
and stuff but as far as really being
into it I was a horse person I was not
somebody that was out there and staring
at the sky all the time now I kind of
wish I would have taken the time to
stare at the sky because there's some
amazing stuff that goes on out there
you know you look at all the the turmoil
that we go through here on earth and the
changes and there has to be something
better
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