I’ll admit the first time I saw the state funded commercials aimed at attracting travelers to New Mexico I laughed—a lot. The 30-second ads feature creepy looking reptilian spacemen dressed like tourists with the tag line “New Mexico—-the best place in the Universe.” Anyone who knows anything about the state realizes the campaign pokes fun at New Mexico’s famous connection to aliens. Most notably the fact that in 1947 the U.S. military said a weather balloon crashed in a Roswell desert, but the overwhelming consensus by residents (both past and present) is that it was a UFO. Since then the … Continue reading →