UFO and aliens: tourism attractions
| Location | Description |
|---|---|
| Roswell, New Mexico | Home to the 1947 UFO crash. The town has embraced its alien-friendly status, with alien-themed restaurants and shops, like this spaceship-shaped McDonald’s, an interactive spacewalk and the International UFO Museum and Research Centre, a non-profit museum dedicated to uncovering the mystery of the 1947 crash and other unexplained phenomena. The Roswell 2019 UFO Festival will take place from July 5-7 (Lembo, 2018) |
| Area 51 in Nevada | For alien enthusiasts, this is ground zero. The secret air force base in Nevada has been at the centre of extra-terrestrial speculation since the 1940s. Many believe UFO wreckage from the infamous Roswell Incident of 1947 is hidden inside this perimeter – along with the remains of its intergalactic pilots (Thompson, 2019) |
| Chile UFO sighting tours | A 19 mile stretch of land that loops through the Andes can be toured with their UFO spotting trip. “Sightings have been made of shining spheres going into the water and into wooded zones without any human explanation”, said the president of the Chilean Grouping for UFO Research (AION), Rodrigo Fuenzalida. Locals claim that the “200 perfectly sliced volcanic rocks built by ancient civilisations” are a perfect landing pad for flying sauces (Lembo, 2018) |
| Ovnipuerto Cachi, Argentina | A Swiss man built an airstrip for aliens because a UFO captain telepathically told him to (Wolfe, 2020) |
| Hollowcombe Bottom, Devon England | The site of a mysterious pony massacre is rich with extraterrestrial conspiracy theories. Some people blame aliens, saying the most plausible explanation is that a low-flying UFO swooped in and created a vortex that doomed the ponies. Extraterrestrial enthusiasts are convinced otherworldly beings are behind the curious deaths, though their motives remain unclear (Wolfe, 2020) |
| Wycliffe Well, Davenport, Australia | The UFO capital of Australia is the outback’s answer to Roswell, ranked in the top UFO spots of the world (Wolfe, 2020) |
| The Mountain Sphinx, Bușteni, Romania | The odd formation is one of the “Seven Wonders of Romania”. Over millions of years, the elements carved the nearly 40-foot-tall rock until it resembled something akin to a woman’s face. However, the figure’s human-like appearance is not the main attraction that draws people to it. Some people claim aliens are somehow involved (Wolfe, 2020) |
| UFO Memorial, Ängelholm, Sweden | In Kronoskogen, a suburb of the Swedish town of Ängelholm, a memorial was erected in 1972, to remember an alleged UFO-landing seen by Swedish ice hockey player Gösta Carlsson on May 18, 1946 |
| Emilcin UFO memorial, Opole Lubelskie County, Poland | In 2005, a memorial was put up near the small town of Emilcin, Poland consisting of a metal cube balanced on top of a a rock. It commemorates the most famous alleged UFO abduction case in Polish history, that of Jan Wolski, which was said to have taken place on May 10, 1978. The memorial to Wolski’s experience was put up by the Nautilus Foundation, a Warsaw-based organisation that “investigates” UFO incidents (Wolfe, 2020) |
| Disney Park Pandora | Pandora – The World of Avatar is a themed area inspired by James Cameron’s Avatar, located within Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando |
| Location | Description |
|---|---|
| Roswell, New Mexico | Home to the 1947 UFO crash. The town has embraced its alien-friendly status, with alien-themed restaurants and shops, like this spaceship-shaped McDonald’s, an interactive spacewalk and the International UFO Museum and Research Centre, a non-profit museum dedicated to uncovering the mystery of the 1947 crash and other unexplained phenomena. The Roswell 2019 UFO Festival will take place from July 5-7 ( |
| Area 51 in Nevada | For alien enthusiasts, this is ground zero. The secret air force base in Nevada has been at the centre of extra-terrestrial speculation since the 1940s. Many believe UFO wreckage from the infamous Roswell Incident of 1947 is hidden inside this perimeter – along with the remains of its intergalactic pilots ( |
| Chile UFO sighting tours | A 19 mile stretch of land that loops through the Andes can be toured with their UFO spotting trip. “Sightings have been made of shining spheres going into the water and into wooded zones without any human explanation”, said the president of the Chilean Grouping for UFO Research (AION), Rodrigo Fuenzalida. Locals claim that the “200 perfectly sliced volcanic rocks built by ancient civilisations” are a perfect landing pad for flying sauces ( |
| Ovnipuerto Cachi, Argentina | A Swiss man built an airstrip for aliens because a UFO captain telepathically told him to ( |
| Hollowcombe Bottom, Devon England | The site of a mysterious pony massacre is rich with extraterrestrial conspiracy theories. Some people blame aliens, saying the most plausible explanation is that a low-flying UFO swooped in and created a vortex that doomed the ponies. Extraterrestrial enthusiasts are convinced otherworldly beings are behind the curious deaths, though their motives remain unclear ( |
| Wycliffe Well, Davenport, Australia | The UFO capital of Australia is the outback’s answer to Roswell, ranked in the top UFO spots of the world ( |
| The Mountain Sphinx, Bușteni, Romania | The odd formation is one of the “Seven Wonders of Romania”. Over millions of years, the elements carved the nearly 40-foot-tall rock until it resembled something akin to a woman’s face. However, the figure’s human-like appearance is not the main attraction that draws people to it. Some people claim aliens are somehow involved ( |
| UFO Memorial, Ängelholm, Sweden | In Kronoskogen, a suburb of the Swedish town of Ängelholm, a memorial was erected in 1972, to remember an alleged UFO-landing seen by Swedish ice hockey player Gösta Carlsson on May 18, 1946 |
| Emilcin UFO memorial, Opole Lubelskie County, Poland | In 2005, a memorial was put up near the small town of Emilcin, Poland consisting of a metal cube balanced on top of a a rock. It commemorates the most famous alleged UFO abduction case in Polish history, that of Jan Wolski, which was said to have taken place on May 10, 1978. The memorial to Wolski’s experience was put up by the Nautilus Foundation, a Warsaw-based organisation that “investigates” UFO incidents ( |
| Disney Park Pandora | Pandora – The World of Avatar is a themed area inspired by James Cameron’s Avatar, located within Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando |
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