Aliens, flying saucers and a spaceport in New Mexico

A 'portal to other worlds'?

Black Cross with Stars and Blue, a 1929 oil on canvas by Georgia O’Keeffe, captures her vision of her new home state of New Mexico. Photo: Rashmee Roshan Lall at the Georgia O'Keefe Museum

Last month (April 19), Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, told the US Congress that the Pentagon’s sightings of unidentified flying objects were on the rise, now topping 650 incidents in recent years. However, he clarified, there are no signs of alien life as yet.

It put me in mind of the revelations from New Mexico in one of the whackiest books I read before heading off to the American southwest.

Benjamin Radford ‘s Mysterious New Mexico bears the following strapline: Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment.

Mr Radford, it turns out, is a writer, investigator, and professional sceptic, someone who investigates legends, folklore, accounts of paranormal phenomenon, ghosts, mass hysteria and miracles.

He explains his interest in exploring these weird and wh…