Roswell has received a $245,000 legislative appropriation for initial planning of an alien theme park. A tourist photographs an alien outside a T-shirt and souvenir shop in Roswell, N.M., on Tuesday.

ROSWELL, N.M. -- Businesses here have been cashing in on the UFO craze for years -- paintings and replicas of UFOs and space aliens adorn downtown buildings, and even the McDonald's and Wal-Mart are ...

ROSWELL, N.M. — Businesses here have been cashing in on the UFO craze for years — paintings and replicas of UFOs and space aliens adorn downtown buildings, and even the McDonald's and Wal-Mart are UFO ...