Today, in 2003, 400 people a day visit the UFO Museum and Research Center. The morning that Deborah and I visited, cars with license plates from Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Chihuahua, Quebec, Washington State, South Dakota, Missouri, Illinois and several other states filled the parking lot. Ninety thousand tourists visit Roswell each year, increasing city hotel tax revenues by 35 percent in the last four years. Alien-seeking tourists have pumped more than five million dollars a year into the local economy.
Reports of space aliens help Roswell to flourish