Shirley MacLaine Honored in New Mexico

Shirley MacLaine has dozens of awards to her name, including an Oscar, but she says an honor at the Santa Fe Film Festival topped them all.

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N.M. Alien Tourism Ad Stirs Controversy

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Instead of highlighting New Mexico's picturesque desert landscapes, art galleries or centuries-old culture, a new tourism campaign features drooling, grotesque office workers from outer space chatting about their personal lives.

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Thousands Commemorate 1947 UFO 'Crash'

If you truly believe a UFO and its crew of bug-eyed aliens came crashing down here 60 years ago, rest assured: You're not alone. At least 35,000 people have descended on Roswell this weekend for the 2007 Amazing Roswell UFO Festival to commemorate a purported flying saucer crash on a nearby ranch in July 1947. Participants have filled hotel rooms and nearly doubled the southeastern New Mexico town's population for a few days.

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