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General Uncategorized 2019-12-102019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

How Strange it Is!

Certainly, one of the most amazing things about being in New Mexico, about being alive, or about being anywhere, is that being, and being here, is even possible.  That people…
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General Uncategorized 2019-11-262019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

UFOs Will Crash, Part III

The view is of a rolling desert plain—shabby with yellow grass and sagebrush and radiant beneath a purple, cloudless sky.  Through this sky, a white, oval-shaped object plummets diagonally toward…
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General Uncategorized 2019-11-122019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

UFOs Will Crash, Part II

Over fifteen or so noiseless seconds, this intriguing footage plays out with no commentary, no captions, and no known filmmaker willing to take credit for it.  Where it really came from,…
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General Uncategorized 2019-10-292019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

UFOs Will Crash, Part I

It was October, 1997, and the second annual Australian International UFO Symposium had just begun, in the eastern Australia city of Brisbane.  There, writers gave lectures on the latest extraterrestrial news and theories,…
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General Uncategorized 2019-10-152019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

Bill Richardson’s World Record

In 1998, Kevin Cole, of Carlsbad, New Mexico set a new world record for farthest spaghetti nasal ejection, by sending seven-and-a-half inches of noodle rocketing from his nose in a single…
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General Uncategorized 2019-10-012019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

More About Roswell!

If you were to ask most New Mexicans—or even most Americans—to name the most famously strange, most controversial, most wildly celebrated place in our entire state, chances are that the…
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General Uncategorized 2019-09-172019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

Fifth Largest State of Mind

Exceeded in size only by Alaska, Texas, California, and Montana, New Mexico is America’s fifth largest state.  Within New Mexico’s more than 121,355 square miles could fit more than seventy-eight Rhode Islands,…
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General Uncategorized 2019-09-102019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

Al Capone’s Hideout

Rising over the desert of north-central New Mexico are the green and rugged Jemez Mountains.  Nestled among these mountains, ringed by walls of jagged and wooded lava rock, is a…
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General Uncategorized 2019-08-272019-08-27 Harper Sullivan

The Ghosts of Halloween

It’s night in the desert, and you and a group of friends are gathered in a half-circle around a fire, the fire’s orange-red flames coughing sparks into the blackness above. …
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General 2018-12-142018-11-26 Harper Sullivan

Wait, I Can Ski in New Mexico?

As we established in an earlier post about our state's climate, New Mexico is proud to claim one of the most diverse landscapes available in the country. With wide, scorched…
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