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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence.
High
Concentrations of Phenomena in Southern Colorado's San Luis Valley
Lights in the
sky, UFO activity, US military activities, cattle mutilations, black
helicopters, top secret research programs, ancient myths and legends, tales of
witches and supernatural occurances, a throng of wonderful phenomena
impressively stirs in San Luis Valley, Colorado.
It's nickname is Mysterious
Valley, a subject for books, essays, newspapers stories, magazine articles, TV
shows and radio interviews.
To misquote the Twilight
Zone opening credits, “You have entered a world, a special place, when you drive
into Southern Colorado's San Luis Valley.” The region is thick with tales of
unworldly activity.
It is a high desert like
valley, ringed with a series of great mountain ranges, beginning on its southern
end at a point south of Taos, New Mexico. The Jemez mountains wind into the San
Jaun range, skirting the western border of the well defined valley, and just to
the east of Taos, is the huge Sangre de Cristo Mountains that turn into the
lower Rockies, making up the eastern border of the arrowhead shaped valley.
The San Luis Valley is one
of America's highest valleys averaging over 8, 000 ft above sea
level.
It is the agricultural and
cultural world of the southern half of the state, its crops consist of potatoes,
beans, feed and hay. There is 400 years of Spanish history dating to the first
Spanish Land Rights issued in the New World.
The region is ancient, where
dinosaurs once ruled, and UFOs now frequent the skies above the mountain range.
It is the capitol of cattle mutilations mysteries, the first highly publicised
mutilation way back in 1967.
It is a US Air Force
Military Operations Area, selected because of its low population and high
mountain ranges that surround it, allowing aircraft to hide in a radar blind
zone to avoid detection from radar, a testing ground for actually warfare in
foreign parts around the world.
In Dulce, New Mexico, is the
Jicarilla Apache Reservation, and is also home to the Los Alamos National
Laboratory, as well as the birth place of the first nuclear testings and origins
of the famous atomic bomb used at the end of World War Two.
Not too distant to the west,
Utah, is the rumoured location of Area 51, the top secret military reservation
in Nevada, the one that doesn't officially exist.
Besides the dressing of US
military official personal and their compounds of secrecy, it is not unusual for
the public to claim reports of a dozen or more sightings per night, reaching
local enforcement officers, radio stations and newspapers of the
area.
A reporting
network actually exists, residents ringing each other concerning lights in the
sky or other unexplained phenomena.
With the geographic
properties of the area, it is possible for one set of residents in Crestone, on
the eastern border of the valley, to see the same object in the sky as residents
from Saguche, on the western side of the valley. One telephone call, contacting
the next person on the list of the network, and two communities can step outside
their homes witnessing the account of strange activity in the sky.
Many of the sightings are
shared with visitors to the valleys, it's reports so strong, they attract
ufo-ologists from all over America; while truck drivers interstate, see the
strange phenomena, and locally it is believed that supernatural forces are
working in the valley.
This is Colorado's
Mysterious Valley.
High
Concentrations of Phenomena in Southern Colorado's San Luis Valley written by
Bill Barber
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