Weather Balloons and the Roswell UFO Crash Site

In 1947, an Air Force Weather Balloon crashed in the barren cattle country northwest of Roswell, New Mexico.   A lot of people, including Google Maps, think this is a UFO crash site.  It’s now all part of an urban legend that refuses to die.  We were in the Blanco Mountains, within driving distance of the site.  After all, who can say they’ve been to a UFO Crash Site?

Well, since we were here, why not?  It’s why we have a Jeep to explore the unusual.   So we drove 40 miles out of the  Mountains into the desert to see the crash site.  Our drive through ranch country began on pavement, then transitioned to a dirt road, and finally to a 4-wheel drive two-track road, which led us to the site.

At one time, there was a plaque that had been removed.  In its place was a rock pyramid with various items left by visitors incorporated in and around the pyramid.  The drive to the site felt out of this world.  Vast rolling sagebrush country for as far as the eye could see, with the Blanco Mountains to our back. 

We did this on a whim.  We really had no expectations of a close encounter with alien life forms.  It was good just to be in the desert, seeing something strange.