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LAJAS, Puerto Rico (AP) -- People in this sleepy hamlet are so sure they have been receiving other-worldly visitors, they want to build a UFO landing strip to welcome them...<br><br>Read on: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/09/28/ufo.strip.ap/index.html">edition.cnn.com/2005/WORL...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

Hey, the mayor and local businesspeople are trying to generate some tourist dollars. What's wrong with that?<br><br>The Little Ale-E-Inn, in Rachel, Nevada (a town of about 40 people) near Area 51, does brisk business, and they named their two-lane road the "Extra-Terrestrial Highway." Good for business, ya know.<br><br>Are they real? Indigenous people world-wide have stories dating back into pre-white-man days. Tribes in the US don't tell their stories to very many white folks, but in one of my Folklore classes at Northern Arizona U., a week's work was based on the UFO tales told to our professor and his wife, by the Ramah Navajo in New Mexico. I've been told some stories, too, and whenever I've given Orgonite devices to Native Americans, they've known exactly what I was talking about: "These will protect you from UFO's." --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

My mother was on a tour of, I believe, Hopi territory led by a Native American tourguide. My mother, who's had more than her share of encounters while growing up in Southern Indiana, saw what she knew to be physical evidence of UFO landings in the desert a ways off the road.<br><br>When she asked the tourguide what they were, the tourguide said she couldn't see any markings at all. My mother, not easily deterred, kept pressing the woman for an answer. Finally, the tourguide said that she couldn't see what my mother was pointing at because "she was not a shaman".<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

The Hopi ESPECIALLY don't tell what they know. And they know more than just about anyone.<br><br>For example, if it only rains one place in the whole huge state of Arizona, it will be in Hopiland.<br><br>A tour guide would probably know the stories, but not wish to set a precedent by telling a stranger. Elders are the ones who decide things like that. --MaryK <p></p><i></i>