The area had received about 5.56 inches of rain since January as of July 8 – more than last year’s total of 4 inches but less than the 6.34 average for southeast New Mexico, according to data from the National Weather Service.
Deputies with the Eddy County Sheriff’s Office were called June 3 to a water pump site near the 1400 block of East Wood Avenue operated by Walterscheid Farms.
This year marks the 79th anniversary of the 1947 “Roswell Incident,” when rancher W. W. Brazel and other locals discovered unusual debris resembling tinfoil and what they claimed were alien bodies on Brazel’s ranch in Roswell.
