If it weren’t for the “Ride the Cosmic Highway” signs or green aliens along Highway 17 pointing the way, her quirky roadside attraction resembling a spaceship might be lost to the vastness of the San Luis Valley altogether. Judy Messoline’s UFO Watchtower is located two miles north of Hooper, Colorado. Just as I get up to stretch, a thin white light, maybe a quarter mile to the east, blinks on and off moving low and quick across the sky. I rest my feet on the platform’s metal railing to get comfortable. ![]() Are the stories true? Are we being visited by travelers from faraway corners of the universe? It’s like Carl Sagan once said: “If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” My thoughts drift to little green men with big eyes, Scully and Mulder, encounters, and abductions. The San Luis Valley has been a hotspot for UFO sightings dating back centuries. ![]() Standing along the viewing platform, I focus my attention on a large swath of sky above the Sangre de Cristo mountain range and Great Sand Dunes National Park where many unexplained sightings have been witnessed. The only aliens I’ve encountered are the plastic figures shrouded in darkness below me, but they aren’t giving up any secrets. No rotating saucers or strange objects zigzagging and speeding across the sky. ![]() With it comes overwhelming stillness and a profound sense of isolation. As evening descends over the UFO Watchtower in south-central Colorado, the heavens transform into a mesmerizing black canvas sprinkled by twinkling stars and distant galaxies too numerous to imagine.
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