USA Today’s Kevin Maney is suggesting that the 1980s series wasn’t all fiction, after all…
There might be something New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson isn’t telling us about this spaceport he’s building.
Something, perhaps, related to what the military didn’t want to tell us 50 years ago about events near a place called Roswell …
Yes, New Mexico is going to construct a spaceport in the desert. I picture the last scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind and a gate-area bar called the Star Wars Cantina. This month, Richardson persuaded the Legislature to authorize $110 million for the project. …
So New Mexico is really stepping out. And while Richardson has his reasons — there could be more to it. …
Like, let’s say those aliens really did land in Roswell in 1947.And then they settled in New Mexico. Being smart enough to actually travel here, they easily could have gotten rich investing in oil wells, derivatives and maybe a couple of trendy restaurants in Taos. Then the aliens might have started contributing to political campaigns — perhaps Gov. Richardson’s.
Now, like Cubans in Miami, the aliens have the wealth to either return home in style or send for relatives. They just need someplace for the regularly scheduled flying saucers to land. So they called their friend in the governor’s mansion.
Who just happens to have been born in … 1947. Coincidence? You think?
USATODAY.com – New Mexico goes a little pie in the sky with spaceport idea