"Hey, Hollywood. If you’re going to make a big-budget movie about extraterrestrial contact with Wild West cowpunchers, can’t you at least try to get it right? John LeMay, a historian and author who lives in Roswell, says that of course spacemen explored our planet in the days of saddle-sore lawmen and swinging saloon doors. But it wasn’t the cartoonish picture of evil planetary invaders, complete with hideous teeth and slimy hands emanating from their reptilian bellies that is portrayed in this Hollywood blockbuster. His book, The Real Cowboys & Aliens: UFO Encounters of the Old West, sets the record straight, using information gathered from yellowed newspaper clippings from the 1800s to tell of numerous close encounters between farmers and cowboys on the range and mysterious visitors in flight." -- Albuquerque Journal. Aug. 18, 2011, Page A1.

Long before graphic novels and Hollywood blockbusters, Cowboys and Aliens really did encounter each other, according to newspaper accounts and other historical documents of the 1800s. These unusual stories about UFO sightings in the Old West are revealed in a new book by Texas UFO researcher Noe Torres and New Mexico historian John LeMay. Titled The Real Cowboys & Aliens: UFO Encounters of the Old West, the book examines fourteen bizarre incidents, including the reported recovery in 1897 of a spaceship and its alien pilot in the Texas frontier town of Aurora.

“Cowboys meeting aliens seems to be a theme strictly for comic books and blockbuster movies,” LeMay said, “But in reality, there exist many newspaper and magazine accounts from the 1800s telling of strange sightings and encounters from America’s cowboy era.” A native of Roswell, New Mexico, LeMay has authored several books about the history of New Mexico and serves on the board of directors for the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico (HSSNM).

Torres, a state section director for the Mutual UFO network (MUFON), said, “What is especially interesting about these historic UFO sightings is that they took place before airplanes were invented and before flight of any kind was common.  Although hot air balloons had been around since the 1700s, it was closer to 1900 before balloon airships became widely known.” Torres has written three books about historic UFO cases.

“It seems likely that UFOs were quite common in the 1800s,” Torres said,  “We have found hundreds of newspaper and magazine accounts about people seeing strange objects and lights in the sky. We have also found articles that mention face-to-face encounters with creatures that seemed human but were clearly not.”

According to Torres and LeMay, because airplanes and spaceships were unknown concepts in the 1800s, people who saw strange things in the sky usually described them by comparing them to known objects like “cigars” and “balloons.” The term “flying saucer” was not widely used until the 1940s, although The Real Cowboys & Aliens includes an account of an 1878 UFO sighting by a Texas farmer who described what he saw as a “large saucer.”

Since this was long before the era of jet planes and spacecraft, the cowboys and farmers of the 1800s often struggled to put into words what they had witnessed, Torres and LeMay said. Unless a UFO slowed down enough to where they could observe it carefully, most of the Old West residents probably didn’t take much notice. Vapor trails in the daytime and streaks of light at night likely did not make much of an impression on these hardened pioneers. These sights were just part of the “signs and wonders” that often appeared in the heavens.

Torres and LeMay said that after researching many UFO sightings from 1800s, they picked the most interesting cases to include in the book. Torres said, “We’ve included many bizarre stories, such as the one about a being from outer space whose spaceship crashed in North Texas and whose body was buried in a lonely Texas cemetery where it may still remain today. You will also read about a flying monster shot by two cowboys outside of Tombstone, Arizona. There is also a tale about an underwater UFO that came up to the surface and nearly electrocuted two men. Another story tells of a mysterious ‘airship’ that lassoed a calf and then flew off into the sky with it. You will also hear the tale of a strange flying beast that terrorized a small Midwest town. Did these strange encounters really happen as recorded, or were they the products of overworked imaginations? We’ll let you, our readers, decide for yourselves …”

The Real Cowboys & Aliens is beautifully illustrated by a number of talented individuals. The artist whose illustrations appear at the start of each chapter, Neil Riebe, is an author and illustrator living in Madison, Wisconsin. Shane Olive, who did the front cover artwork, is a retired firefighter living in Roswell, New Mexico. He has worked in illustrating for over 30 years. His past works include book covers, VHS box art, and illustrations for various magazines, including TV Guide. His son, Jared, who also contributed several illustrations for this book, is a firefighter in Roswell. He has previously designed t-shirts and logos for products sold in Roswell gift shops.

The Real Cowboys & Aliens is available for $12.95 at: https://www.createspace.com/3657595. It is also available on Amazon.com in both paperback and for the Kindle by clicking on this link.

Noe Torres and John LeMay spoke about the Roswell UFO crash and other mysteries on George Noory's "Coast to Coast AM" show on Friday, May 6, 2011. Torres and LeMay also talked about their recent books, Roswell USA: Towns That Celebrate UFOs, Lake Monsters, Bigfoot, and Other Weirdness by LeMay and Ultimate Guide to the Roswell UFO Crash by Torres. "Coast to Coast AM" airs on more than 500 stations in the U.S., as well as Canada, Mexico and Guam, and is heard by nearly three million weekly listeners. It is the most listened to overnight radio program in North America. A media phenomenon, "Coast to Coast AM" deals with UFOs, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena. A recording of the May 6 program may be downloaded from the Coast to Coast AM Web site (subscription required):

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2011/05/06.

New Book Tells Inside Story of Roswell UFO Crash & Other Paranormal Events

Roswell USA: Towns That Celebrate UFOs, Lake Monsters, Bigfoot, and Other Weirdness

Authored by John LeMay, Illustrated by Neil Riebe, Edited by Noe Torres. 254 pages. Click here to purchase.

The year was 1997 and some 40,000 tourists and reporters descended upon the desert town of Roswell, New Mexico, where 50 years earlier a flying saucer is said to have crashed. Even today, UFOs and “Little Green Men” remain Roswell's top tourist draw. This book takes a fresh new look at the Roswell Incident from an "insider's perspective " - that of lifelong Roswell resident John LeMay, a historian and author born and raised in the Alien Capital of the World. His childhood being filled with tales of flying saucers and alien autopsies, John grew up knowing several key Roswell eyewitnesses, including Robert Shirkey, who said he saw UFO debris being loaded onto a B-29 bomber at the Roswell Army Air Field in 1947.

In the first part of this remarkable new book, John's keen insight and marvelous sense of humor deliver a fresh new angle on the story of the Roswell UFO crash and on some of Roswell's other, lesser-known mysteries, such as: 

* The "alien ghost" that haunts the New Mexico Rehabilitation Center. 
* The "Second" Roswell UFO Crash of 1949. 
* Bottomless Lakes where cars sink into the depths and monsters emerge to the surface 
* The Headless Horsewoman of Lover's Lane, a Victorian Era Spook with an axe to grind against young lovers. 
* Plus more mysteries of Roswell!

As featured on the Jeff Rense radio program, click here to listen to Jeff's interview with author John LeMay and editor/publisher Noe Torres (from April 22, 2011).

Roswell is by no means the only town to use strange events and bizarre creatures to draw tourism dollars. Nor was it the first.  In the second part of John's book, he takes us on a tour of other towns all over the U.S. that celebrate weirdness - like Churubusco, Indiana, where a giant turtle transformed the town into “Turtletown, USA.” There is also Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where a moth-like humanoid has inspired an Annual Mothman Festival and a year-round Mothman Museum. Take a dip in the White River Monster Reservoir in Jacksonport, Arkansas, and visit an alien's grave in Aurora, Texas. Cruise along the E.T. Highway near Rachel, Nevada, and have your picture taken with Bigfoot in Fouke, Arkansas.

This outstanding new book is now available for purchase - Click here to place your order now!  Click here to visit the Roswell USA Web site.   Also Available for the Kindle. Click Here!

By popular demand, our Ultimate Guide to the Roswell UFO Crash is now available in Spanish. The book is designed to take Roswell visitors on a comprehensive, self-guided tour of over 30 sites in and around Roswell that were directly connected to the world's most famous UFO incident, the Roswell UFO crash of July 1947. The guide includes over 100 photos and illustrations of the mysterious places where the crash and subsequent cover-up occurred, including photographs of both Roswell in the 1940s and Roswell today. Featuring an amazing foreword by Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr., in which he talks about holding pieces of alien debris in his hands, this book has become an instant classic among all persons interested in the world's foremost UFO crash retrieval story. To order a copy in Spanish, click here.

Due to the extremely high level of interest in the case and in the existing Roswell UFO landmarks among our Spanish-speaking friends, we are happy to announce the pending release of a fully-translated Spanish edition of our highly acclaimed guide. The Spanish edition is titled Definitive Guide to the UFO Crash at Roswell: A Visit to the Most Mysterious Places in Roswell, New Mexico, and it contains all of the same information and photographs from the original book with some slight revisions and updates for 2011. Click here to order copies of our Spanish edition, or check out our Spanish Web page for the book.

The book also remains available in its original English edition, as well as being available for the Kindle e-book reader. Author Noe Torres says, "I've been amazed at how popular this title has been on the Kindle, but then again, it makes perfect sense that readers would want to have the book in their hands in electronic form while traveling around Roswell visiting all the sites involved in the Roswell Incident. The Kindle is a wonderful new way to read books, and it actually makes reading fun again, in addition to making it highly portable and Web-connected."

The release of the Spanish edition was announced on Saturday, March 26, 2011 on the radio show "Infocus Paranormal" with host Nick Roesler. On the show, author Noe Torres and photographer/researcher E.J. Wilson spoke about the book and about the tours of Roswell that they offer to anyone interested in retracing the steps of the famous UFO case. To listen to this radio program, please click on the following link, which is courtesy of our friend Nick Roesler:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/infocusparanormal/2011/03/27/exploring-roswell-with-ej-wilson

Authors Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte, joined by former commercial pilot Carlos de los Santos, appeared on the Jeff Rense radio program to discuss Carlos' close encounter with three UFOs that surrounded his airplane and slammed into his landing gear. Click here to listen to this amazing program.

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Take a tour of the places where the Roswell Incident really happened. Our tours meet every Saturday morning and evening, at the former Roswell Army Air Field. Tour guide E.J. Wilson provides detailed narration on 9 key sites that are directly related to the famous Roswell UFO case. Included in the sites is Hangar 84 (see photo below) and the site of the base hospital where the alien autopsy is said to have occurred. For tour reservations, call 575-416-0146. For more info, visit our Web site - www.RoswellTours.com.

Click here to purchase your copy from our publisher: Or purchase from our Amazon.com Page "I read Ultimate Guide in one day. Could not put it down! This is a wonderful addition to 'Roswellicana,' and I congratulate you, Mr. Torres, on your first-rate research and scholarship." J. Steiger - Woodbridge, VA.

Revisiting the Roswell UFO Crash: Critically-Acclaimed Book by Noe Torres "Prior to the publication of this book, few people knew exactly where to look for this spell-binding hidden history. Now, contained herein are the resources needed to visit all the major historical sites related to the alleged UFO crash." - John LeMay, historian and author of "Images of America: Roswell." Does evidence still exist today in Roswell, New Mexico of a mysterious UFO crash from July 1947? Let this book be your guide to visiting all the sites in and around Roswell that were involved in the infamous "Roswell Incident." Experience for yourself the hidden landmarks of that fateful evening when an object from beyond Earth came streaking down out of the night sky, changing the course of human history forever. For the first time ever, each of Roswell's UFO landmarks is carefully explored through witness interviews, photographs, and maps. The amazing story of the Roswell UFO crash is finally revealed by a close examination of where everything happened. Follow the trail of the world's most fascinating UFO case by walking in the very places where the eerie events of 1947 unfolded.  Ultimate Guide to the Roswell UFO Crash is available both in a print edition and by electronic delivery using Amazon's Kindle. Kindle makes the complete book available electronically within 60 seconds for only $9.95 ( a $5 savings over the print edition). The book can be delivered wirelessly to any Kindle device or over the Internet using the free Kindle software for PC or Mac. Click here to purchase our print edition or go to our Kindle page for the electronic edition. Best-selling author Peter Robbins says about our book, "The Ultimate Guide is deeply informative, well illustrated and consistently interesting. This is American history most Americans are completely unaware of and a public service to anyone who wants to walk the walk and experience the Roswell story via the actual locations where it occurred. Bravo Noe Torres and E.J. Wilson!" Veteran Roswell researcher Kevin Randle says: "If you are planning to visit Roswell, this book tells you all you need to know about the UFO crash, the city and its character. It condenses the confusion of the case into an easily read book that will help anyone make the most of a visit to city and help understand what actually happened. A very nice addition to the Roswell literature." As Featured on Coast to Coast AM - Feb. 16, 2010

Mexico's Roswell Revised 2nd Edition On August 25, 1974, along the Rio Grande River near the Texas border town of Presidio, a thunderous explosion in the sky shattered the stillness of the warm summer night. An unidentified flying disc traveling at 2,000 miles per hour collided with a small airplane heading south from El Paso, Texas. The flaming wreckage of both aircraft fell to the Mexican desert below and immediately became the object of an intense recovery effort by military forces from both Mexico and the United States. This book reveals the shocking story of that night's historic events, as two governments raced to a remote corner of the Chihuahuan Desert in an effort to recovery evidence of a technology from beyond the Earth. The 2nd edition has been fully revised and updated to include the latest information on this incredible case.  Click here to order directly from the publisher or use the Amazon links on this page. Also, visit our "Mexico's Roswell" section for more. The 2nd edition is also available for the Amazon Kindle. "Amazing! This story is wilder than the U.S. Roswell. This book is an amazing piece of work." -- George Noory, Coast to Coast AM, 8/20/2007. "Well-researched, well written, and well constructed as a whole ... A definite must-read." -- MUFON UFO Journal, Sept. 2008, p. 15.

Former Pilot Discloses Startling UFO Crash Story On a clear spring day in 1955, Air Force reservist Robert Willingham was piloting an F-86 fighter jet across West Texas when he saw an intensely bright UFO streak past his aircraft at over 2,000 miles per hour and then crash-land along the banks of the Rio Grande River, where he later found smoldering, twisted wreckage that convinced him the object was not of the Earth. Dr. Bruce Maccabee, world-class UFO researcher, says about this book, "One of the world's most interesting UFO crash retrieval stories. I believe that the reader will find this book important support for the idea that Alien Flying Craft have crashed on earth and have been retrieved and covered up by the United States government." The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas-Mexico Border discloses for the first time ever, the eyewitness testimony of Colonel Willingham, who says that he chased a UFO across Texas, saw it crash to the earth near Del Rio, Texas, and later visited the crash site. For more, visit our "The Other Roswell" section. To get your copy of this riveting new book, click here for the publisher's Web site or use the Amazon Books links on this page.  This book is also available for the Amazon Kindle.

Listen to our Jeff Rense appearances: Jun. 25, 2010 - "Roswell UFO Festival" Feb. 19, 2010 - "Ultimate Roswell Guide" March 8, 2010 - Colonel Robert Willingham, Pt. 1 March 15, 2010 - Colonel Robert Willingham, Pt. 2

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