An otherworldly resident in Roswell, a small city in the southeast corner of New Mexico that lacked much of a national identity until one day in 1947 when, believers say, an unidentified flying object, or UFO, landed in the nearby desert. What happened next is debated to this day, but Roswell got its identity as “Alien City”— in an extraterrestrial, not nationality — sense. These days, space-creature figures abound throughout town. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2018.