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Saturday, October 14, 2000 UFO watchtower provides platform for true believers The Daily Herald Page 13 HOOPER, Colo. (AP) Green, glow-in-the-dark cutouts of bug- eyed extraterrestrials line a dusty road off a two-lane highway in southern Colorado. Travelers stop in a makeshift parking lot on Judy Messoline's ranch, get out and wander into a small, domed building with shelves stocked with "alien dust," posters, shiny extraterrestrial dolls and pyramid candles. Outside, steps lead to a 10-foot- high UFO-watching platform. For $2, people can scan the skies for bright, darting lights and strange, hovering crafts, the likes of which have been reported for decades by residents and visitors in the San Luis Valley.

"I didn't realize I could work 11 hours a day, seven days a week and giggle the whole time," said Messo- line, who, with her partner, Stan Becker, opened the UFO watchtower on Memorial Day weekend. The idea might sound like a joke, but tales of supernatural phenomena abound in this naturally spectacular 50-mile-wide, 125-mile-long valley, which is 7,600 feet in altitude and ringed by the San Juan and Sangre de Cristo mountains. The UFO Computer Network Internet site ranks Saguache County, home of the Watchtower, as No. 1 nationwide in reports of otherworldly sightings per capita 131 this year in the area. Neighboring Alamosa County is No.

Saguache County Undersheriff Mike Norris said his office doesn't get frequent reports about mysteri- ous lights or crafts, "but people talk and it gets out." The book "The Mysterious Valley," by Christopher O'Brien, examines reports through the years of cattle mutilations, mysterious helicopters and oddly shaped aircraft hovering over the valley. Messolinc got the idea to build the watchtower after putting up with ET enthusiasts camping on her property. She also needed to make some money because cattle ranching, which drew her to the valley five years ago, was foundering. A big fan of X-Files," a TV show about UFO-hunting FBI agents, she admits she has seen strange lights in the sky. As for believing in UFOs, she said, "It would take one landing so I could take a look." Freaky stuff Judy Messoline, left, and her partner, Stan Becker stand outside the gift shop they run on their 620-acre ranch near Hooper, in this June 6, 2000 file photo.

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