Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about the UFO Watchtower.
That's correct, the UFO Watchtower.
This of course is located out in the San Luis Valley, Colorado.
Pretty cool stuff actually. I found this article over on
Road Trippers. It begins by it's dated August
4th, 2020 and starts out. It says it started as a joke,
but Colorado's UFO Watchtower is now a hotspot for mysterious
sightings. Got a picture here?
The San Luis Valley, known as the Bermuda Triangle of the
West, has been a hot spot for out of this world activity for
centuries. Articles written by Joe Rogers
and Rd. trippers. I have to tell you, they've got
a camping site here. Man, these people could do a
little bit better job cleaning up after themselves.
But this seems to be out here, middle of this very dry, almost
desert environment. And they've got this, well, I
guess they call it a tower. It looks like it's maybe 1 1/2,
two stories tall, kind of a fenced in area around the top of
it there. And you can just kind of take
the steps up there and, and have a look over the plains and look
for UFOs, I guess. It says.
As evening descends over the UFO watchtower in South Central
Colorado, the heavens transform into a mesmerizing black canvas
sprinkled by twinkling stars and distant galaxies too numerous to
imagine. With it comes overwhelming
stillness and a profound sense of isolation.
I've never seen a UFO. No rotating saucers or strange
objects zigzagging and speeding across the sky.
The only aliens I've encountered are the plastic figures shrouded
in darkness below me, but they aren't giving up any secrets.
Standing along that viewing platform, I focus my attention
on a large swath of sky above Sangra de Cristo Mountains range
near Great Sand Dunes National Park, where many unexplained
sightings have been witnessed. Then I wait, it's got some
pictures here, you can tell. Just really no light pollution
to speak of. Beautiful night sky view.
An hour goes by, nothing, nothing happens.
My thoughts drift to little green men with big eyes, Scully
and Moulder encounters and abductions.
Are the stories true? Are we being visited by
travelers from faraway corners of the universe?
It's like Carl Sagan once said, it's just us.
Seems like an awful waste of space.
I rest my feet on the platform's metal railing to get
comfortable. Another hour goes by.
Just as I get U to stretch, a thin white light maybe a quarter
mile to the east blinks on and off, low and quick across the
sky. There's no sound.
Judy Miscellini's UFO Watchtower is located 2 miles north of
Hooper Co. If it weren't for the ride, the
cosmic Hwy. signs where green aliens along Hwy. 17 pointing to
the pointing the way, her quickie roadside attraction
resembling a space ship might be lost to the vastness of the San
Juan of the San Luis Valley all together.
But earlier in the afternoon, as I sit with Miscellini at a table
just a few steps from a small gift shop, the place is busy.
We were closed for four months because of the coronavirus, she
says, lighting a cigarette. Her voice is soft and small
wrinkles appear around her eyes as she squints in the midday
sun. Her gold sparkle nail Polish
glistens and she wears multi colored alien head socks.
But now we're open. It's been kind of a zoo.
Lots of people. Some call the San Luis Valley
the Bermuda Triangle of the West.
It has been a hot spot for mysterious sightings dating back
to the Spanish conquistadors in the 1560s, and now Miscellaneous
Place lies almost smack dab in the middle of it.
For her, however, all this started as one big joke.
I came here to raise cattle in 1995, Miscellany says chuckling.
When I met the locals they were all telling me UFO stories and I
just giggle saying we needed a watchtower.
Well I struggled with cows for 4 1/2 years because they don't eat
sand very well and had to sell the herd.
Then one day I ran into one of the farmers here at a gas
station and he said I should build that watchtower I always
laugh about. So I did.
Initially this was just going to be a little old mom and pop
business to catch tourist traffic.
Well, we had other tourist traffic come around too.
Since opening in May 2231, tourists, quote UN quote from
outer space have allegedly visited the area.
So I'm guess we're talking about UF OS.
I've seen 28 myself. Miss Lee says the closest one
was between here and the mountains.
It was narrow and really long and zipped across the sky. 11 O
clock at night. And we had over a dozen people
here who saw it. We had two last night that come
in spurts. In 20 years, the Watchtower has
attracted more than 30,000 human visitors.
I first visited in 2017. Most, like myself, are curious
passersby. Some have claimed to be actual
beings from Pluto in Sirius. One was a high-ranking
government official who, according to Miss Lean, pulled
out his cell phone and showed me a picture of a being coming out
of the ocean. No matter who visits, this one
time skeptical rancher has created a safe place for people
to share their experiences. She's heard too many stories to
brush things off. I'm interested in that situation
with the high-ranking government official who has a picture of an
alien coming out of the ocean on their cell phone that's got my
attention. Goes on and says people don't
get made fun of her. She says folks will walk up and
I'll ask if they've seen anything.
A lot of them just hang their heads, so I'll let it go.
But after they've been here a bit, they'll open up and tell me
about what they've seen. Not all these people are crazy.
Not far from us, kids pose for pictures with the alien figures
and what Miss Lane calls her healing garden.
Here, numerous psychics have reaffirmed the existence of two
large beings protecting spinning vortexes.
Those beings are here to protect the vortexes but also help
people in times of need. As a result, Miss Lane requests
that people leave something behind to receive good energy.
Now everything from photos and business cards to pins, keys,
toys, and even personal items of lost love fills the garden.
Okay, maybe I just mistook that for trash when I saw these
pictures of all this stuff laying around there.
It's kind of hilarious. Soon our conversation takes us
into the gift shop. Newspaper clippings, shot
glasses, photos taken of objects nearby and even messing his own
book, The Crazy Lady down the road are on.
On display near the register are two binders full of sightings,
written accounts of dancing lights, dish shaped crafts and
even a few detailed drawings each witnessed here on the
property. Sensing my interest, Messeline
mentions what various psyches have told her over the years.
They each stand in the same spot in the shop and ask why did you
put this here? She says.
I told them it just felt right. Well, then they would say, you
know, that there's a crashed ship under here.
I just thought, yeah, right. But when you hear it over and
over, then you start thinking it might be true.
When it Mesling pressed one particular second for more
answers, asking just how big the ship was.
The answer astonished her. And she said it's a mother ship.
It's a mile longwell, that would be something to drill for,
wouldn't it? Mesling grabs another binder and
opens it. Inside are detailed drawings
that the psychic made for her that day, each depicting a large
disc shaped object with a Dome in the center.
One day a group from the Navy came out here.
She says my son said not to tell them about the Christ ship, no
matter what. Well, I did, and you know, they
didn't seem surprised. I leave Meslene wondering
whether any of the stories she tells me are actually true.
Well, I don't know. Are you?
Is the author here suggesting that she's lying to him or the
people are lying to her? I mean, to me, the lady's just
being upfront and honest. You can.
Whether she's being told tall tales or actual experiences
people have, I mean, yeah, I can't say for sure, but I'm
certainly open to such possibilities.
Now, as I squint into the darkness, trying to follow the
strange white light, I don't know what to think.
As it travels, SI look down at the supposed at the supposed
mothership buried deep in the ground below me.
When I look again, the lights course low and straight, doesn't
change for another 15 seconds. Then just as quickly as it
appeared, it blinks one last time.
It disappears. Yeah, I think you've been a
skeptic sometime. We'll run into these things.
Let's take a look at this next article talking about this San
Luis Valley. I found this newspaper article
over at the cia.gov. That's right, cia.gov, I guess
they call it that. Their reading room says approved
for release 2001 April 2nd. Now it's a newspaper article so
I'm not really sure why it would need to be approved for release,
but I guess that's how they do things.
Title says pair of Pueblo use photograph, strange light in San
Luis Valley and then the dateline on this is Alamosa CSJ
written by R Spencer Darling. I'm not seeing the name of the
newspaper on this. Anyway, says what appears to be
a significant UFO sighting has been photographed by two Pueblo
youths who travelled to the San Luis Valley for that purpose.
A detailed report of the sighting, complete with a
chronological log written during the sighting, has been forwarded
to Doctor Edward U Condon's office in Boulder, Co.
Condon has AUS Air Force sponsored investigation into
UFOs. Edward Boggs, 19, and Bill
Mcfreder's, 19, drove to the San Luis Valley Friday evening,
complete with sleeping bags and $8 for gas and food.
OK, so this must have been a while.
I mean, like a lot of these newspapers, it's not giving us
the details that we need, but just think about that $8 for gas
and food and it's talking about Edward Condon.
So I'm guessing this is back maybe in the 60s or 70s.
Edward Boggs, 19, and Bill Mcferry's, 19, drove to the San
Luis Valley Friday evening, complete with the sleeping bags
and $8 for gas and food, and they entered Alamosa about 9:30
PM. Stopping at a local drive in,
they found it difficult to get a straight answer as to the
location of the King Ranch, the site of numerous UFO sightings.
People are reluctant to talk or else made a joke of the whole
UFO business. Mcfarry said.
A car hop finally furnished the information and the youths
arrived at the ranch, 20 miles northeast of Alamosa about 10:30
PM. The ranch is located about 1/4
mile West of the Sand Dudes Rd. Boggs and Mcfederys passed the
ranch interest by about 3/4 of a mile and turned E onto A Rd. up
the side of Mount Blanca. From a vantage point about 3/4
of mile up the mountains overlooking the valley, they set
up their camera on a tripod and be in their watch.
Mcfedery's first entry in the log was 11:00 PM.
From then until 1:20 AM, the entry reported no sightings.
At 1:20 AM, Boggs said it was like someone turned on a light.
There out in the Prairie was a brilliant white diffused light
about the size of a penny, about 50 times larger than the dots of
light made by cars and the lights of Alamosa in the
distance. They took two photographs of it
quote to prove to ourselves the next day that we really saw
something. the US watched the light and its antics until 3:00
or 4:00 AM. During this time it traveled N
it appeared to go to the Great Sand Dunes National Monument.
Then it headed toward their car and finally swung in an arc back
to the site it was first seen. During this trip, the UFO
travelled at varying speeds, the slight changing intensity and
color. All the time the object remained
below the horizon from the used vantage point up on Mount
Blanca, Macfrederick said he finally fell asleep and Boggs
continued the vigil until the object blinked out at three O
4:00 AM. Boggs said the experience was
frightening, particularly when the object headed toward the
car, even though the UFO was several miles away.
The youth plans to return to the watch for the object this
weekend. Just seems like a cool story.
These two teenage kids out there happened just to go out on a
whim right after the San Luis Valley And what do they see
within the first couple hours? A UFO.
Let's take a look at this next article.
I found this article over at cyberwest.com.
Kind of gives a bit more background at Soul San Luis
Valley and the UFO phenomena. This is dated January 10th,
1996. A fairly old article, the
mysterious San Jui Valley part one that says if someone told
you there was a single geographic region with
indigenous legends telling up doorways used by star people
piloting flying seed pods. Hundreds of UFO sightings, The
first publicized unusual animal death case.
Waves of cattle mutilations, Bigfoot encounters, alien
abductions, rumors of secret underground bases and the
world's most unusual sand dune desert?
Would you believe them? And if they told you a large
phantom fire was recently reported in this area to local
sheriff's by NORAD during a still continuing UFO siding
flap? Or that it was a place where
various localized spooklights lurk up the road from towns
where a legendary devil makes occasional appearances, all
within sight of privately owned 14,000 Foot mountains.
Would you believe such a place existed?
Well imagine that, your own 14,000 foot tall mountain.
Welcome to South Central Colorado and North Central New
Mexico's San Luis Valley. Not well known to the outside
world. This roughly 150 mile by 45 mile
wide wishbone shaped area running north to South is
considered to be the world's largest Alpine valley and maybe
one of America's most anomalous regions.
The semi arid desert valley floor, perched at an elevation
of 7600 feet, averages less than 6 inches of rainfall a year and
is completely ringed by majestic mountains, many of which are
over 13,000 feet high. This mysterious valley is hidden
from the outside world in many ways.
The San Luis Valley, like many other regions around the world,
has always had its share of reported sightings and
encounters. Going back as far as the early
1930s, many of these alleged events were covered extensively
by local and regional news newspapers.
Over the past 30 years or so there have been intensive
so-called flat periods of increased UFO sightings and of
unusual animal deaths mutilations, often with
simultaneous periods that are reporting both phenomena.
So here we get this connection again between the UFO sightings
and a cattle mutilations and it goes on and talks about Native
American myths. Could some of the most
intriguing clues we have in regards to aspects of the UFO
and unusual animal death phenomena lie in the mythic
tradition of this and possibly other unique bioregions in the
Southwestern United States? We do know that 12 different
Indian tribes use the San Luis Valley as a sacred hunting and
vision quest area. No Native American ventured into
the valley during the winter months, where it is not uncommon
to find nighttime temperatures at -20° for weeks at a time.
Wow. Although no Indians lived in the
San Luis Valley full time, the oldest known continuously
inhabited dwellings in North America, the Teos Pueblo, are
found at the extreme southern edge of the valley.
Several southwestern Indian tribes consider the San Luis
Valley, most specifically the San Luis Lakes area, to be the
location of the Sipacu, or place of emergence.
The Indians believe that they were led underground to safety
at this location just before a cleansing period of earth
changing changes. The Navajo version mentions our
current time periods being the end of the fifth world according
to their tradition. They were warned of the opening
cataclysms by sky Cucina's fireballs.
Question mark. Yeah, I think the Cucina's are
represented by these cucina dolls, if I remember correctly.
Kind of strange looking creatures.
The Navajo tradition of companies.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong on that.
It says Kachina's signaling them the time to travel to the Sipaku
was at hand. Once underground.
He said they were cared for by Ant people for several
generations until it was safe to re emerge and repopulate the new
world. And for a lot of us, these Ant
people sounded awful lot like these insectoid aliens.
Very strange creatures indeed. Just southwest of the Sipacu
stand the tallest collection of promontories in the valley.
The Blanca Massa, which is considered to be the sacred
mountain of the east to most southwestern tribes, is the area
where Navajo, say Star people, enter into our reality aboard
flying seed pods. This impressive group of
mountains lies at the western edge of a maximum intensity
aeromagnetic zone. The Sipapu lies just to the West
of the Blanca Massif and the Great Sand Dunes at the eastern
edge of a minimum intensity aeromagnetic zone.
The Great Sand Dunes National Monument is the world's highest
and probably strangest dune field, rising almost 700 feet
above the valley floor. The age of this 50 square mile
pile of sand is still not precisely known.
Official dating puts this age at at least 11,000 years, but it
could be older. Some of the earliest traces of
man in North America can be found within 10 miles of this
enigmatic wonder Man may have visited here before the dunes
were formed. Action that then, it says.
Who are the saucer pilots? The modern documented history of
unexplained occurrences in San Luis Valley began in the early
1950s when green fireballs were seen and reported by thousands
of people all across northern New Mexico and southern
Colorado. In mid 1960s, one San Luis
Valley man reported and publicly insisted that he had experienced
contact and interaction with aliens.
Robert Witting, an Episcopal minister in Alamosa Co, claimed
he had telepathic contact with beings operating a craft that
flew next to his car while travelling on US160 late one
night. He alleged they warned him of a
large animal in the road just ahead of him and he was able to
swerve around a large black dog lying dead in his lane.
He claimed he then convinced to have the first of several
extensive telepathic encounters with the pilots of the craft.
From the fall of 1966 through the spring of 1970, there were
hundreds of unidentified flying object sightings and many of the
first documented cases of unusual animal deaths ever
reported. During peak UFO sighting waves
in the late 1960s, dozens of cars would literally line the
roads, watching the amazing aerial displays of unknown
lights and crafts as they converted around in the sky
above the Great Sand Dunes Dry Lake area.
Several published photographs of these objects or lights were
taken by witnesses in 1967. It was September 1967 when the
San Luis Valley first gained worldwide recognition with the
celebrated case of Snippy, or otherwise known as Lady the
Horse. I think I did a podcast on that.
It seems like maybe the reporter just kind of offhandedly
referred to the horses Snippy and so that wasn't the actual
name, but it just stuck with the story.
I could be wrong on that, but I have to go back and check.
Snippy was found on the King Ranch at the base of Blanca
Massif, missing all the tissue from the tip of her nose to its
shoulders. The heart and brain were missing
and a strange medicine like odor hung over the horse for several
days. There were huge 18 inch giant
horseshoe tracks. Wow. 18 inch giant horseshoe
tracks found near the carcass. And the press claimed Snippy's
tracks ended 100 or so feet from where she was found.
Another one of these cases where it looks like the animals
carcass was just dropped off somewhere, you know, from the
sky. The horse's owner Nellie Lewis
told reporters. Flying saucers killed my horse.
And later that they would come out and Force One day.
Although Snippy is widely considered to be the first.
Documented unusual animal death case.
It is not a classic mutilation by definition.
A classic mutilation generally refers to cattle found missing
soft tissue organs IE genitalia and or tongue, exposed mandible,
eyes, ears and or the unfortunate animal is drained of
blood and fluids, all excisions areas like surgical cuts and the
shrouding crime scene is devoid of blood or any additional
clues. The phenomena may suggest some
kind of experimentation, or I think maybe they're harvesting
the blood. We've talked about vote buying
blood before. After a low of activity in the
early 1970s, during a three-year period starting in August 1975,
local law enforcement officials at times were run ragged by the
mysterious cattle surgeons. Dozens of ranches reported
finding livestock, mainly cattle, mutilated, and there is
evidence suggesting that actual numbers of cases was much higher
than what was officially reported.
These reported cases, with a few exceptions, featured crime
scenes with an apparent lack of physical evidence such as
tracks, bloods, footprints, etcetera.
The 75 through 78 period in the San Luis Valley reflected what
was going on throughout most of the United States and in parts
of Canada. Unmarked helicopters, buzzing
mutilation sites, numerous UFOs and anonymous light sightings,
Widespread press coverage, I would say cover up and generally
indifference by the federal authorities concerning these
baffling crimes. Difference, I guess, would be
putting it mildly. And then looks like this.
OK, so the very bottom, it tells us is Christopher O'Brien.
Apparently that was the guy that wrote this article.
And this is a Photo by Joseph Falco.
Christopher O'Brien lives in and has personally investigated and
researched the San Luis Valley for five years.
His book, The Mysterious Valley Saint Martin's Press will be
published in mid 1996. He publishes A bimonthly report
concerning reports of analysis of anonymous activity reported
in the San Luis Valley. So definitely credit to Mr.
Christopher O'Brien there. Of course, like I said, a 30
year old article, don't want to know who's still around.
Even from this old, what a cool, what a cool sight.
San Luis Valley there and this idea that, yeah, you've got this
watchtower, people are seeing things on a regular basis.
And then you kind of overlay this with like what this fellow
was talking about, Bigfoot sightings, everything I think
from skinwalker to UFOs, pretty much really, really wild stuff.
Until next time, This is UFO warning over and out.