My Strange New Mexico

Roswell!

Posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 at 04:35PM by Mike Smith in Roswell Edition Column | Post a Comment | Email | Print

I know, I said check back soon for the last Roswell Edition of the summer at the end of the previous column, “Bigfoot Gone Loco!”  And yet, no new column has appeared.  Well, there’s good news and bad news on that front. The bad news is I didn’t have time to complete the new column, “UFOs Over Roswell” (about UFO sightings over our fair city before and after the infamous crash), but, the good news is I didn’t have time because I was working on a new Roswell book.

The book tells Roswell’s history beginning as a humble trading post along the Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail all the way up to the current day as a tourist destination for UFOs.  For those of you familiar with Mike Smith’s excellent Towns of the Sandia Mountains, my book too is a photographic history book in the Images of America series for Arcadia Publishing.  The book, to be called Roswell, has over 200 images collected from the Historical Society for Southeastern New Mexico, the Roswell Museum and Art Center, and the private collections of several prominent ufologists.

So for anyone interested in Roswell’s entire history you can read about Roswell’s founding by Van C. Smith, the arrival of Western heroes like John Chisum, Pat Garrett, and Captain Joseph C. Lea, how Roswell managed to avoid the nearby violence of the Lincoln County War (and why Billy the Kid rarely, if ever, came to town), Roswell’s growth at the discovery of Artesian water, the birth of the prestigious New Mexico Military Institue, the dark days of the Depression, the arrival of the father of modern rocketry Robert H. Goddard and his rocket tests in Eden Valley near town, the origins of the Roswell Army Airfield, a German POW Camp in the 1940s, and everyone’s favorite, The Roswell Incident, as well as what happened to the town after the closure of the base and how it eventually came to become a major tourist destination in the 1990s.

So if you’ve wished for a concise, easy to read history of Roswell, New Mexico, with tons of great photographs this will be the book you’ve been waiting for. Look for it early Fall of ‘08. Below is a sneak peak of some of the photgraphs to be included in the book.

And in the meantime, the Roswell Edition will be back up in running sometime in late August, but until then you can find my writings in the Daily Strange.

Bigfoot Gone Loco!

Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 10:52PM by Mike Smith in Roswell Edition Column | 6 Comments | Email | Print

Traveling west leaving the sagebrush plains of Roswell and Chaves County behind you will find the serene forested towns of Lincoln County.  Towns where Billy the Kid roamed and shot it out, Peter Hurd did his famous paintings, and Smokey the Bear famously survived a forest fire in Capitan.

One town especially sticks out in Lincoln County though, and that town is Ruidoso, New Mexico, a favorite spot for a quick getaway for many Roswellites.  And, like Roswell’s Main Street full of little green men and flying saucers, the main street of Ruidoso is dotted with ornately carved wooden bears giving it a distinctly forest-like feel.

And interestingly, while Chaves County is alien territory, the mountains of Lincoln County and Ruidoso are ironically enough Bigfoot country.

Yes, New Mexico has Bigfoot too.

Bigfoot has various names and interpretations amongst different cultures.  In the forests of North America he is sometimes called Sasquatch, in the Russian wilderness he is the Alma, in the frozen mountains of Tibet are the Yeti, and here in the desert Southwest of New Mexico Bigfoot are more terrifyingly known as…los abuelos!

(Or translated into English: “the grandparents” or in the singular “the grandfather.” Maybe not so scary sounding after all).

The abuelo, a figure used in Hispanic folklore to frighten young children into behaving, is described as a half-man half-animal, often times like an upright gorilla, and resembles Sasquatch.  This Bigfoot, however, also has the ability to speak to ask children if they have been good or not, and also carries a whip.

While in the Hispanic folklore they have a halfway protective interpretation in that they make small children behave themselves, in New Mexico’s Native American culture Sasquatch have a much more sinister identity.  Take the Atahsaia for instance, which literally translates to “cannibal demon” in the language of the Zunis.  An old Zuni story tells how Atahsaia lures two young girls to his cave (with plans to eat them) by telling them that he is their grandfather!

Yes, in New Mexico our Bigfoot are just a little bit different (and by different we mean stranger) than ones reported in other states.  Why is New Mexico’s Bigfoot so strange though?  Perhaps it’s because in a state where UFOs crash at random, half-rabbits/half-cats called cabbits run wild, and gateways to other dimensions supposedly open up in towns like Lordsburg, being Bigfoot just isn’t quite weird enough.

While Northern New Mexico Bigfoot sightings have recently been getting press coverage in the news, we here in Southeastern New Mexico have been having plenty of Bigfoot activity as well.

Back in December of 2004 two wildlife majors from Texas Tech went camping near Ruidoso.  While one of the young men was fishing by himself in a lonely creek, he could feel the presence of someone, or something, watching him.

To quote directly from the report the witness submitted to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO):

The strange thing that scared me was that the birds stopped singing and the woods almost went silent. I then scanned the steep canyon boulders and pine forest and saw brush and trees shaking vigorously and immediately thought I was about to see a bear.

I slowly went to the opposite side of the creek and stared in the area trying to make out the creature. Everything stopped moving and I quickly started down river towards camp. About 10 minutes later I heard what sounded like a gutteral moan or cry directly across the river, like the creature was trying to scare me, this combined with the fact that it had parralled me down river really made me panic. I then ran all the way back to camp as quickly as I could, spraining my ankle in the process.

I am an accomplished outdoorsman who has had plenty of experience with bears and the area, but I have never seen a bear parralel a human for as long as this creature did, and the cry was definetly different from any kind of growl or vocalization that I have ever heard out of a bear.

An old Bigfoot sighting that used to be available at the Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy site told of another Ruidoso encounter.  If memory serves (the site has taken down their section for NM sightings) two men saw Bigfoot from their truck walk across a lonely road in the mountains early in the morning hours.

The town of Mescalero in neighboring Otero County south of Lincoln and Chaves has had nine reports of Bigfoot mischief sent to BFRO so far.  They include traditional sightings of tall hairy bipedal creatures scaring passersby’s in their vehicles and the usual mysterious nighttime screams.  Bigfoot even trampled an old woman’s flower garden and left his dirty hand-print on her dining room window, disturbed the peace by banging the roof of some travelers’ camper, and also reached his hand into another witness’s home and tried to steal some food.

The all-time strangest Bigfoot sighting in this area of New Mexico though, or perhaps anywhere, belongs to Alamogordo resident John Bohannon.  While driving down a road near Three Rivers Campground (North of Alamogordo and slightly west of Ruidoso) Bohannon saw a large ape-like creature walking upright in the same direction as he was driving.  He estimated it to be 8 foot tall, said it had reddish/brown fur, a Neanderthal like face, and that its arms hung down past its knees.  Nothing strange about that for a Bigfoot sighting except for one thing: it vanished into thin air without a trace leaving Bohannon to wonder if Bigfoot “walked into some kind of portal.”

In Lordsburg, NM, there is an alleged portal into another dimension called the Lordsburg Door.  Bohannon also reported seeing a cowboy dressed up in full “1860s garb” that also disappeared into thin air, again evoking shades of a Lordsburg style time rift, in the same area.

Bohannon’s story was discovered several years ago by Sharon Eby who met John Bohannon when she ironically had decided to go to Three Rivers Campground instead of Roswell due to the UFO Festival going on at the time.

Who knows?  With stories of Bigfoot vanishing into mysterious portals, carrying a whip to frighten young children into behaving in time for Christmas, or trying to lure them into his cave so that he can try and eat them, maybe its not so implausible that he’ll one day wander over from Lincoln or Otero County to Roswell and get spotted at the crash site…After all, in New Mexico would that really be so strange?

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Although author John LeMay (it’s fun to talk about yourself in the third person) may have taken a lighter approach to this article than usual let it be known he was in no way trying to belittle the Bigfoot researchers or the witnesses as cryptozoology is one of his favorite subjects. Check back soon for what will be the last new Roswell Edition of the summer!

Aztec's UFO Crash Part 2

Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 at 10:38PM by Mike Smith in Roswell Edition Column | Post a Comment | Email | Print

Last week in the Roswell Edition we examined New Mexico’s other very famous UFO Incident, the Aztec Crash, in which an alien craft supposedly made an emergency landing in Hart Canyon…and how it was really just a story cooked up by two con-men, Silas Newton and Leo GeBauer, to help swindle people into buying their fraudulent doodlebugs which they claimed to be alien technology recovered from the crash.

Or was it?

Of course, Newton and GeBauer probably weren’t actually selling alien technology, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the Aztec crash itself never happened or that there wasn't something else mysterious afoot with GeBauer and Newton.

First off, it’s important to note that GeBauer could have very well not have been Dr. Gee, as skeptics who love to jump on the Newton/GeBauer bandwagon like to believe.  Dr. Gee was name given to a group of eight or nine scientists by Frank Scully that had investigated the Aztec crash.  Scully named them “Dr. Gee” to protect their collective identities.

Newton and GeBauer’s trial with Herman Flader also wasn’t necessarily all that it’s cracked up to be either.  Thanks to an investigation into Newton and Gebauer by longtime Aztec researcher Scott Ramsey some eyebrow-raising bits of information on the two have been found.  Ramsey answered questions about GeBauer and Newton’s trial and history in a recent email and had this to say:

Herman Flader was the only investor in the oil deal that was upset with Silas Newton. The court records show that he and only he felt that he was deceived with his investment. Most people would like you to believe that the oil field that was in question was a "dry well" when actually the court records show it was a big success and the other investors made a lot of money off of it. The skeptics on Aztec would also like you to believe that they were held on criminal charges when they were reduced to "civil charges" at the end, and were made to pay his original investment back plus court costs.

The "Doodle bug" devise that was presented in court was not the one the other investors were shown. Nobody ever saw the one that the F.B.I. presented at the trial. The other investors were not allowed to testify in the trial. (this is all on public record, not rumor mill stuff).

Prior to the 1950 book release "Behind the Flying Saucers" by author Frank Scully, the F.B.I. files showed that Silas Newton was a man of "high regard, a patriotic person of good standing, a big contributor to the Republican Party, and a man of great wealth". After Frank Scully's book came out, he was a “worthless man who could not be trusted, and a person of interest to the F.B.I." This all changed in a time frame of one year. When the F.B.I. decided to investigate Silas Newton, they could not get a judge to agree that Silas Newton had done anything wrong. This started in the Albuquerque Federal Court where the Judge said they had no case, they then went to Phoenix and the courts told them the same. Then they went to Salt Lake City and were told they had no case. They finally ended up in Denver where they had to convince a judge they "would present better evidence at trial."

I am probably the only person that has bothered to read the entire "complaint" concerning the charges brought up against them. I am also the only person to read the 269 pages (that's only 65%) of the F.B.I. files on [Newton]. The other 35% are not to be released according to the F.B.I.

I also had a trial lawyer read the entire work (criminal complaint and law suit) and he was "shocked" at how aggressively the F.B.I. went after them. Pyramid type investments were very common in the oil fields back then.

But Newton and GeBauer aside, there are much more important things to investigate pertaining to crashed UFOs, such as hard evidence and eye-witnesses.  Eventually two significant first-hand witnesses that had been at the crash site were found by Ramsey.

The first of these was Ken Farley.  Farley had been down from Colorado in northern New Mexico visiting a friend at the time of the crash.  When Farley picked his friend up at a town north of Aztec called Cedar Hill the friend told him how he had seen several trucks and a police car heading south on a small road.

Wondering what was afoot they followed the small dirt road until they reached Hart Canyon and found the surprise of their lives.  Atop a mesa sat a disc shaped craft with no noticeable damage. According to Farley there were also many oilfield workers, a couple of ranchers, and two police officers interviewing the locals.  Some of the oil workers were even said to have tried to climb up on the craft.  One of the police officers warned Farley and his friend that they should leave. Instead they ignored him and stayed at the crash site. Later on that morning the military arrived and threatened the witnesses with their lives.

When Ramsey managed to find another first hand witness to the crash his testimony would incredibly end up matching perfectly with Farley’s even though the two men had never met before in their entire lives.  The man was Doug Nolan who was an employee of El Paso Gas Company at the time of the crash.  Nolan stumbled upon the crash with his boss Bill Ferguson who had told Nolan they needed to get down to Hart Canyon to put out a brush fire there.  Once they arrived an oil field worker told them the brush fire had been taken care of but they needed to take a look at “something else.”  The “something else” turned out to be the flying saucer.

Their curiosity firmly aroused Nolan and Ferguson walked up to the craft and peeked into one of the windows in which they thought they could see two bodies slumped over a control panel.  Nolan, being a citizen of Aztec, unlike Ken Farley, was able to identify many people at the crash.  The two ranchers Farley described in his account were a husband and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Knight, who had cattle near Hart Canyon.  One of the two police officers at the crash actually wasn’t even from Aztec, but from Cuba, NM, and had followed the craft watching it in the sky to Aztec.  Nolan also recalls two other men at the crash site that he did not know, likely Ken Farley and his friend (who remains safely anonymous).

There have also been several secondhand witnesses to come forward, such as Fred Reed who claims that he was part of a cleanup crew called in to survey the crash site and make it look as though nothing had transpired there.  Part of the cleanup was to also cover up any tracks of heavy equipment.

Witnesses aside, hard physical evidence in Aztec’s support thus far has literally been a concrete slab found in Hart canyon.  Why is a concrete slab a big deal though you might ask?  Ramsey believes the slab was poured near the crash site to support a piece of heavy equipment such as a large crane support leg.

Corroborating the theory is an ex-Intel Air Force Officer involved in the crash who says the pouring of the concrete slab delayed the recovery operation for a few days.  The slab does not appear to be part of any of the oilfield businesses in the area as no one from Williams Energy, El Paso Gas, Dugan, or Burlington can connect the pad to any past operations in the oil fields.

Other skeptics point out that the Aztec crash couldn’t have happened because Hart Canyon Road did not exist in 1948. Actually the road has been around for quite some time, and is ironically the site of the last stage coach robbery in New Mexico back in the late 1800s.

UFOs were not scarce in northern New Mexico at the time either.  In 1950, the nearby town of Farmington, NM, witnessed a whole armada of flying saucers hover over their city leaving many witnesses to the event.

To quote directly from the Farmington Daily Times of Saturday, March 18, 1950:

Fully half of this town's population still is certain today that it saw space ships or some strange aircraft -- hundreds of them zooming through the skies yesterday. Estimates of the number ranged from "several” to more that 500. Whatever they were, they caused a major sensation in this community, which lies only 110 air miles northwest of the huge Los Alamos Atomic installation. The objects appeared to play tag high in the air.

And as for Frank Scully, his book Behind the Flying Saucers has many bits of information on technology that although far-fetched for 1950, was actually in existence at the time of the book’s publication, only classified.  The technology he wrote about, including methods of magnetic detection, wasn’t declassified until many years later.  The name Scully also rings a bell in popular culture today thanks to the character of agent Dana Scully of The X-Files, named after Frank Scully.

But even after all the newfound evidence Aztec is often still regarded as a hoax thanks to two con men.  But, after all, since the Roswell crash eventually overcame its weather balloon cover-up, maybe Aztec can one day finally overcome Silas Newton and Leo GeBauer as well.

Aztec's UFO Crash

Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 01:13PM by Mike Smith in Roswell Edition Column | Post a Comment | Email | Print

It is the late 1940s.  One night a strange alien craft makes an emergency landing in the desert not far from a sleepy New Mexico town.  Scientists examine the large disk-shaped craft along with the charred bodies of alien occupants found inside.  Soon government operatives step in, threats are made to the witnesses, and one small town is never the same.

That’s right; we could only be talking about one place: Aztec, New Mexico.  You know, that other place in New Mexico where a UFO crashed? 

Aztec is located north of Farmington, NM, and was recently featured as one of New Mexico Magazine’s “Five Cool Small Towns” in their May issue.  The town used to be most prominent for its beautiful ancestral 12^th century pueblo ruins, the Aztec Ruins National Monument, just outside of town but is beginning to gain more and more recognition for being the site of an alleged UFO crash just like Roswell.

Every year in March Friends of the Aztec Public Library hosts the Aztec UFO Symposium, and if this year’s turnout was any indication Aztec is getting better known every year.  So well known in fact, that Disney even took special care to place it in their remake of Escape to Witch Mountain, wherein two children will go to a UFO Convention in Las Vegas, NV, and pass by a prominently placed booth advertising the Aztec UFO Symposium.

But, even amidst all the recent exposure and renewed interest strong skepticism still permeates Aztec’s crash.  Larry Barker, as part of his Larry Barker Reports segments for KRQE news, declared Aztec a hoax in his current investigation not long ago and likewise NMSR (New Mexicans for Science and Reason) still view it as fraudulent as well.

However, serious UFO Investigators such as Dennis Balthazar and Scott Ramsey have given the case serious reconsideration over the last twenty years.

“When I first heard about Aztec years ago I also didn't think much of it because basically the hoax theory was getting much of the publicity, however as more research has been done and witnesses interviewed my thinking has changed and warrants further investigation into the incident.”  said Balthazar in a recent email.  “Hoaxes are too often accepted as fact, when additional 'good' research as Scott Ramsey is doing on Aztec opens the door to at least look deeper into it.”

And looked into the case investigator Scott Ramsey has.  But more on that later; first let’s recount the basic history of the Aztec crash.

The full original Aztec UFO story, for those not familiar with it, first gained prominence via famous journalist Frank Scully in his 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers.  In it Scully describes how in March of 1948 an alien space craft 99.99 feet in diameter made an emergency landing in Hart Canyon atop a small mesa near Aztec.  The craft and the alien bodies within it were then collected by the air force.

Scully got his information from Silas M. Newton, a con-man with a dubious past, who introduced him to one “Dr. Gee.” Dr. Gee was the one who then related the story to Scully, as Dr. Gee had been called in with several other scientists to examine the craft and try to figure out just how it achieved its propulsion.  According to Dr. Gee the craft was then dismantled at the crash site, and like the Roswell saucer, taken to Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

While it’s interesting to note similarities between Aztec and Roswell, including the close proximity in time in which they happened (Aztec’s was less than a year after Roswell’s which had occurred in July of 1947) the Aztec crash has many significant differences.  First of all, the Aztec craft didn’t necessarily crash like Roswell’s, but made an emergency landing without causing any major damage to the craft.  Secondly, this flying disc was much larger at 100 feet compared to the one found near Roswell.  Also out-topping Roswell was the discovery of 16 alien bodies compared to Roswell’s four or five bodies although none of Aztec’s aliens managed to survive like Roswell’s.

While Roswell had a weather balloon to try and crash its credibility, the arrest of Silas M. Newton and his partner Leo A. GeBauer proved to be a near crippling blow for the Aztec legend.  GeBauer and Newton had been swindling people for years and getting away with it until they messed with Denver millionaire Herman Flader.  Flader was furious when the two sold him a device said to be able to locate oil, but was in fact just a piece of inexpensive surplus junk.  It didn’t help that the two men had been trying to pass off these devices as pieces of alien technology recovered in the crash to help find oil.

Making things even worse San Francisco Chronicle reporter J.P. Cahn began investigating Newton and GeBauer’s scams focusing on the crash angle.  Cahn stealthily managed to swipe a piece of the “crash debris” from Newton and have it tested to reveal its earthly properties of simple aluminum.

And so thanks to the two con men the Aztec legend seemed to crash and burn.  There had been no alien craft, just a story concocted by Silas Newton, and according to many his partner Leo A. GeBauer was really the mysterious Dr. Gee all along.

Or was he?

What the recent investigations by Scott Ramsey have turned up, next week, in the Roswell Edition…

New Mexico Mini-Dinos

Posted on Friday, April 4, 2008 at 10:55PM by Mike Smith in Roswell Edition Column | 4 Comments | Email | Print

The dinosaurs are dead.  They died millions of years ago.

Most everyone knows this.  And yet, those dead dinosaurs have a peculiar way of popping up in modern times where they’re not supposed to. 

People report sightings of creatures that bear strong resemblances to plesiosaurs in lakes from Loch Ness to Patagonia.  Natives in the dense swamps of Africa fear Mokele-mbembe, which has popularly been accepted by cryptozoologists as a surviving sauropod.  Flying reptiles like Pterosaurs are glimpsed in the skies above New Guinea, Africa, and even Texas and New Mexico.

On land, in the broad open spaces of the Southwest, it would seem that we should have nothing.  No sightings of T-Rexes stalking the desert, no herds of Coelophysis spied running across the Great Plains, and certainly no Allosaurus seen prying road kill off of the highway.  Nothing.

And yet we have Mini-Dinos.

The sightings first gained public attention in Colorado where people reported sightings of bizarre 1-3 foot tall reptiles that ran on their hind legs.  Because of their dinosaur-like appearance and the fact that they seemed to always be sighted near creaks and streams, the creatures were dubbed “Colorado River Dinos.”  Nick Sucik investigated several sightings of such creatures in Colorado and the Four Corners area and has since become the leading expert pertaining to such matters.

There has even been a sighting of a mini-dino in Roswell, New Mexico.  Like anyone else who has read this column before you would assume enough odd things have happened in this town that it had likely met its quota for strange events, and yet we even have a dinosaur sighting.

Stepping outside of his parents secluded home north of Roswell at about 10:00 AM one morning, Mark Graham beheld a strange sight.  His uncle’s dog Ono, a half Pit-bull Blue Healer, was chasing something in the field nearby that looked surprisingly like a dinosaur.

The reptile was about three-foot tall, dark tan in color, and running on its hind legs.  It also had a long neck and two small arms.  Graham was able to keep the creature in sight as it was being chased by the dog for just under a minute.  In that time he was able to observe it well enough so as to not mistake it for anything else.  Graham said himself that one of the first things he thought upon seeing the creature was 'dinosaur.'

“My thought at the moment was, ‘Am I really seeing what I’m seeing?’” said Graham recalling the sighting in a recent interview.

Later on when looking through a picture of book of dinosaurs Graham picked an Avimimus as the dinosaur most closely resembling the creature he spied outside of his parent’s home.  An Avimimus was a small bird like dinosaur with the same bodily proportions and size of Graham’s creature.

Graham’s cousin also saw the dinosaur-like creature.  Several days later Graham and members of his family also found strange three-toed tracks on their property that did not match any other known animals in the area.

Investigator Nick Sucik still keeps a healthy skepticism about these “Mini-Dino” sightings however.  Sucik notes that although many sightings seem to be of a heretofore unknown reptile species (or possible dinosaurs); many more also turn out to be that of Collared Lizards.  Collared lizards are often mistaken for “mini-dinosaurs” because of their ability to run on their hind legs.

“Collared Lizards do seem to stir the imagination when people see them running upright.” said Sucik in a recent email.

Although Collared lizards generally do not obtain more than 16 inches in length a 24 inch specimen was captured in New Mexico some years ago by three young brothers.  After admiring their catch, which they determined had grown large due to its great age (evidenced by its faded color); they released it back into the wild.

“What also creates complications is the fact that people in general are familiar with dinosaurs and seem to get excited when they learn that that strange lizard running upright could have been a living dinosaur.”  Sucik relates on past investigations.  “I've had cases where someone insists they saw a little dino, even pointed out a particular dinosaur they'd seen on Jurassic Park as having its likeness, but when you get down to the fine details (length of the neck, length of the legs, position of the forelimbs, posture of the tail, etc.) things begin to sound more and more like a Collared Lizard.”

Mark Graham’s sighting, however, took place back in the 1980s, before cryptozoology research was so well known and dinosaurs saw new popularity due to Jurassic Park and its sequels.  Graham’s descriptions of the elongated neck length and overall size of the creature also imply something more akin to a dinosaur than a Collared Lizard.  In keeping with other “Mini-Dino” sightings in other states, Graham’s sighting was also nearby a river (the Berrendo River to be exact), which further adds to its credibility.

“I saw what I saw and nothing can change my mind of that.” said Graham concluding his sighting.

Roswell isn’t the only place in New Mexico where a mini-dino has been seen though.  Mike Smith reports that Ramón Ortiz of Lordsburg has seen them, and crypto-investigator JC Johnson has likewise heard reports from a family in the Four Corners area that spots them infrequently.  Nick Sucik came across an old newspaper article on microfilm mentioning the curator of a Cortez museum obtaining “baby dinosaur” skeletons.  The curator asked around if whether or not anyone was familiar with such animals and a Navajo man from Gallup, NM, said that his people knew of the creatures.

So is it too soon to say that dinosaurs, albeit small ones, are alive and well in the Southwest?

Nick Sucik concludes, “I wouldn't go as far as to say there's a relic species of theropods running about the Four Corners but there does seem to be something there that might just warrant a closer look.  For certain the Southwest has more than a few surprises still in store.”

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For more information on sightings of dinosaurs still alive today check out Nick Sucik’s chapter in the book Cryptozoology and the Study of Lesser Known Mystery Animals. Also be sure to check out John LeMay’s article on the subject appearing in the new issue of G-Fan #83 which can be found in select comic shops as well as online at G-Fan.com.