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'Aliens' Celebrate Roswell 60th

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• July 5: Participants in the Alien Costume Contest held at a McDonald's restaurant pose for photographs prior to judging during the opening day of the UFO Festival in Roswell, N.M. All of the costumed creatures were declared winners.
• July 5: A man calling himself ‘Doctor Kink,’ dressed as the pope, and friend Ashley, dressed as Mother Superior, stroll in front of the UFO Museum on the opening day of the UFO Festival in Roswell, N.M.
• July 6: Two ‘aliens’ pose for a photograph in front of Imagine That Scrapbooks on Main Street in downtown Roswell, N.M.
• May 23: A sign welcomes aliens to a fast food establishment on North Main Street in Roswell, N.M.
• May 22: Larry Welz, left, and his wife, Sharon, talk about the UFO phenomenon in Roswell, N.M., in their souvenir shop, The Roswell Space Center.
• May 22: Roswell businessman Thomas Armstrong secures a large rendition of the Earth in Roswell, N.M., above the storefront for his Planet Roswell, an outlet store for ‘Roswell Gear’ jeans, jackets and other apparel.
• May 23: Julie Shuster, director of the International UFO Museum and Research Center, talks about the UFO tourist economy in her office at the museum in Roswell, N.M.
• May 23: A visitor takes a picture of an alien on a gurney at the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, N.M.
• May 23: Architect Gene Frazier points to details on blueprints of his design for a grand luxury resort and conference center aimed at UFO enthusiasts he hopes to build in Roswell, N.M. The resort is the latest example of entrepreneurs trying to cash in on the ‘Roswell Incident,’ the story of an alien spacecraft that allegedly crashed in the desert outside Roswell nearly 60 years ago.