Woman Erects World's First UFO Watchtower

[matcom]

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HOOPER, Colo. — Shortly after her cattle business went bust, Judy Messoline looked to the heavens for salvation.

She had never thought much of flying saucers but knew that her San Luis Valley ranch sat in a region renowned for bizarre, unexplained phenomena. So Messoline erected what she believes is the world's first UFO watchtower.

"I opened it as a tourist trap," she acknowledged.

But it became bigger than that. Over the last four years she has seen self-described alien abductees, psychics, channelers and visitors from Pluto, Jupiter and points beyond come through her door.

The straight-talking rancher has learned to bite her tongue during these close encounters, occasionally of the third kind.

"Who am I to doubt?" she asked.

The last year has been her busiest yet. Thousands have pulled off Highway 17 near tiny Hooper in south-central Colorado to climb the tower and scan the skies over the craggy Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-na-ufo8aug08.story

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. Huh huh.

You said "erect."

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Is it any wonder...

that this kind of fucked up stuff seems to happen almost exclusively in Republican states?