UFO sightings are common in tiny Colorado town
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HOOPER,
Colo. -- As part of the new series "Colorado’s Unexplained Stories,"
we’re taking a trip four hours south of Denver to the San Luis Valley. The area
is nicknamed "The UFO Hot Spot of America."
Apparently,
there are more UFO sightings there than anywhere else in America.
Locals refer
to Highway 17, which cuts through the valley, as "The Cosmic
Highway."
If you take
the highway into Hooper, you’ll eventually pass by an oddly shaped dome-like
structure known as "The UFO Watch Tower." It was created by Judy
Messoline 15 years ago.
“What I find
is we get people here because they need a place to talk about it and especially
ones that have had experiences. Especially abductees,” Messoline said.
Ask anyone
who lives in the Hooper area if they’ve ever seen anything weird in the sky and
chances are each one of them will tell you "Yes."
Their
experiences inspired Messoline to create the tower. It features plenty of
things, including a log book where people can write their run-ins with the
unknown.
“I had an
air traffic controller from DIA come in who said they get six to eight UFO
reports from pilots every month. Now figure that one out,” Messoline said with
a chuckle.
Without a
doubt, what’s inside the tower is neat. But what’s outside is really out of
this world.
“The meteor
showers are just awesome from up here,” Messoline said as she stood on the
tower.
From high
atop the tower, people come to experience something different.
“About 40
psychics have been by and they’ve all said the same thing -- that there are two
large vortexes in front of the tower,” Messoline said with a serious tone.
It might
sound weird, but Messoline said there’s something special about the land the
UFO Watch Tower sits on.
So much so,
she created a "UFO Garden." The garden is scattered with all sorts of
trinkets, left behind by visitors from our world.
“When you
walk through the garden you should pay attention to your body so you can feel
the energy from the vortexes,” Messoline said.
Vortexes are
defined as being a portal between our world and other worlds. Almost like a
gateway to a different universe, Messoline said.
“And I
thought that’s kind of special, ya know? Doggone,” Messoline said.
For some,
this sort of stuff is hard to believe. But in Hooper, the supernatural just
comes naturally.
“Lots of
things happen here and they can keep on happening because I’m having fun with
it,” Messoline said with a laugh.
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