Growing Up Alien: Page 4

Given the harsh and isolated nature of the place, maybe it's not surprising that UFO sightings were common around Nederland, affecting backwoods survivalists and bohemian intellectuals alike. One of the first local UFO stories I remember hearing was one my parents told about an alien encounter in neighboring Eldora. It seemed some invisible extraterrestrial beings had decided to drop in on a party: they passed through a glass door, liquefying it in the process, and abducted some limes which their hosts had been planning to use for cocktails. Later the stunned earthlings discovered a large circle burned in the grass outside, traces of the alien craft. I recall hearing that one of the partygoers, Bill Burroughs, had helpfully theorized that there was a vitamin deficiency among the population of the visitors' planet--maybe the aliens had scurvy.