Is Roswell a UFO mecca? New sighting in town preparing for 'alien crash' 70th anniversary
EXCLUSIVE: A new 'UFO sighting' in the 'alien mecca' Roswell is being investigated as the remote US town gears up to mark the 70th anniversary of the alleged crash of a flying saucer there in 1947.
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the world's biggest organisation dedicated to alien and UFO research, is investigating a report from a mother about a bizarre sighting in the New Mexico town.
In a report to MUFON, the unnamed mother said she was driving with her son at around 9pm.
She wrote: "Out of the corner of my my eye, I saw a stationary, white and red light, bigger than a star, appear, but I did not pay attention to it right away.
"It was off the horizon.
"I could see it easily through my vehicle windshield, then, a few seconds later, another light appeared on the left to the first.
"That's when I looked directly at them."
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.
It has gone on to become the biggest UFO conspiracy theory on record.
The MUFON database holds around 50 alleged UFO sightings connected to Roswell.