UFO country
Where people go to watch the sky.
Terra Terra Collections UFO country
The best known places for sightings you can actually visit: the Extraterrestrial Highway beside Area 51, a watchtower in the Colorado desert, the Marfa lights, a Nova Scotia harbor, and a landing pad built by a town in Alberta. Embossify models the real ground from real elevation data, so each of these is the actual land, whatever you think is in the sky above it.
12 stops · read them in order, or jump to the one you want
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Area 51, Nevada
The dry lake and the mountains around the secret test site at Groom Lake.
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Rachel, Nevada: the Extraterrestrial Highway
A tiny desert town and the Little A'Le'Inn, on the road past the mountains around Area 51.
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UFO Watchtower, Colorado
A viewing deck in the San Luis Valley, with the Sangre de Cristo peaks on one side and the Great Sand Dunes beyond.
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Marfa Lights viewing area, Texas
Open ranch country where mystery lights have been reported since the 1880s, watched from a roadside platform.
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Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
A fishing village where, in 1967, many people saw a glowing object go down in the bay. Canada's best known UFO case.
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St. Paul UFO Landing Pad, Alberta, Canada
A town on the Alberta prairie that built the world's first UFO landing pad in 1967.
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Hessdalen Valley, Norway
A quiet valley where unexplained lights have been reported since the 1930s, watched by an automated research station.
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Sedona, Arizona
Red rock buttes and spires around Cathedral Rock and Bell Rock.
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Mount Shasta, California
A snow-capped volcano that dominates northern California.
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Nazca Lines, Peru
The dry plain with huge ancient drawings in the desert floor. The lines are too faint to show in terrain, but the plateau and valleys around them do.
