....By the end of the summer 1997, the NIDS team had spent about a year hunting a very elusive prey. The initial promise of obtaining data and personal sightings of phenomena had slipped into a strange cacophony of bizarre, unrepeated, transient encounters with something that was difficult to explain. Certainly nothing that had happened so far could be called scientific data on aerial phenomena, which was NIDS’ original mission. The plan for the Utah ranch had been to quickly amass conclusive evidence of a sustained UFO event with video, camera, and other instruments. But whatever had been playing cat-and-mouse games with NIDS personnel was simply too fleeting for us to capture a spectrum of a light or a good video sequence that could be productively subjected to analysis. In short, the abrupt, unexpected events seemed almost designed to evade capture.

As the team continued hunting the phenomenon during 1997, we decided also to begin a second front on another hot spot, with the hopes of gathering enough data from a second location to provide us with a comparative overlap. The area around Dulce, New Mexico, became the focus of my attention for a good part of 1998 and 1999.

The remote town of Dulce lies along Route 64 and has remarkable parallels with the Skinwalker Ranch and the Uinta Basin. Dulce is an isolated town of maybe two thousand people, largely populated by Native Americans, just like the ranch. The Jicarilla Apache reservation completely encompasses Dulce. Also, like the ranch, it is hidden away from the main interstate highway system. It takes an effort to get there.

Dulce lies in a valley surrounded by the majestic peaks of mountains. When you enter the town you immediately sense how run-down the place is. The main street is windswept, and hungry stray dogs search for sustenance. There are no movie theaters and no shopping mall, just a large Best Western hotel that is undoubtedly the town jewel. And near the hotel is a liquor store. The town’s prime entertainment is obvious. Victims of alcoholism can be found lying against street corners, a testimony to the hard life. Until a couple of years ago the local gambling casino was the center of the town’s life, but it closed amid charges of widespread looting of the coffers by unnamed town elders.

At the same time, Dulce has earned a worldwide reputation as a center for paranormal activity.
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