‘Something happened here’: Roswell prepares for Pentagon’s UFO report

City leaders hope big news could bring a tourism surge as the town grapples with the pandemic economy

On the eve of the release of the Pentagon's highly anticipated report on unidentified aerial phenomena, life here in one of the world's UFO hotspots was exceedingly normal.

Downtown's alien souvenir shops and the International UFO Museum welcomed a steady stream of visitors escaping their pandemic malaise on Thursday as coronavirus restrictions continued to loosen in New Mexico.