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WHAT IS NUOS?
Issue #1 Editorial by Nicole
Jones
Welcome to the NUOS universe!
Like most stories, NUOS is based
on facts, or at least people’s perception
of facts. As a lifelong fan of all things esoteric
and arcane, when I was coming up with idea for
NUOS, I tried to stay true to the mythologies
about certain topics (like the Roswell crash)
but with a bit of a twist based on my own personal
experiences.
Back in the mid-1990’s, I
was working for a company that made alien novelties.
Alien fetuses in jars, alien skulls, Elvis aliens,
you name it. Aliens were super hot back then,
and everyone wanted a piece of the action. The
owner of the company had the brilliant idea of
going to Roswell and getting dirt from the actual
crash site and selling it for the 50th anniversary
of the crash. So, armed with buckets and shovels,
we drove from LA to Roswell.
By now, most everyone is familiar
with the Roswell story. Aliens crashed on a cattle
ranch and the government covered it up. But there
is a slightly different account from an eyewitness,
a young man who was camping on the mountain with
his girlfriend on that fateful 4th of July weekend.
He claims that he saw not one but two ships. They
were struck by lightning and collided in mid-air
before crashing to earth – one in the famous
cow pasture, and the other on the mountain, right
by his campsite.
It was his map that we used to
find the second crash site. It’s off a washed
out jeep trail with boulders the size of Volkswagens,
not touristy at all. Under the cover of darkness
(because if anyone had known what we were up to
they would have tried to stop us) we filled our
buckets with genuine UFO crash dirt.
As I was digging, I wondered about
those two ships. What if one of them was chasing
the other? What really happened that night? Hmmm…
The germ of an idea planted itself. Here, over
six years later, in the first issue of NUOS, it
has finally sprouted.
As for the Roswell dirt, the idea
was a total bust. No one believed that it was
actually from the site, and who’s going
to buy dirt anyway? I ended up using it to fill
in some holes that the dogs dug in the flowerbed.
So somewhere in Reseda, there is a house with
UFO crash dirt in the backyard, and the current
residents are completely clueless.
See you in next issue. In the meanwhile,
keep reading. Knowledge is power.
Nicole
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