MIDWAY, NM 1994

On a sunny, cloudless afternoon in the desert, Jose Escamilla, his sister Becky, and a few others were looking up into the sky. Above the small town south of Roswell (on a piece of highway locals call the "Seven Mile Y"), strangely shaped and colored objects zipped in and out of view. Pulling out an RCA VHS Camcorder, he filmed until the camera's batteries died—capturing sixteen minutes of activity. Reviewing the footage, he counted over sixty different objects: diamond, cigar, disc, triangle, and sphere-shaped crafts that moved with incredible speed and shimmered with an unusual sheen.

The footage was only the beginning of Escamilla's research into UFOs (unidentified flying objects) above Midway, Ruidoso, Clovis, Roswell, and the Bottomless Lakes; fourteen days after the initial sighting, he spotted something entirely different in the same location: this didn't appear to be an air or spacecraft, but a living creature. At first, he thought they were insects flying very close to the camera, but something was off. Performing a series of tests,…