{"id":1786,"slug":"alleged-ufo-skip-site-corona-new-mexico","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Corona is the skipped — the 'bounced first' that's the debris' path, the 'skip site' that's the ranch's mark. The 'BLM hosts' is the owned — the 'hike leads' that's the government's tour, the 'alleged' that's the name's hedge. The 'Mogul' is the told — the 'balloon secret' that's the Air Force's word, the 'Soviet ears' that's the project's aim.","The '75 miles' is the split — the 'Roswell claimed' that's the town's fame, the 'Corona actual' that's the site's truth. The 'nothing marks' is the kept — the 'no signage' that's the field's bare, the 'walk a mile' that's the pilgrim's price. Corona is the hedged — the 'alleged' that's the BLM's word, the 'debate 80 years' that's the doubt's run.","The file keeps Corona: the skipped craft, the government hike, the balloon's story, and the bare field.","Corona is the archive's New Mexico file — the crash site the government hikes you to."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Corona is the archive's New Mexico file — where the BLM leads hikes to a site it won't confirm.","A field keeps its hedge — the file's suggestion being that Corona's hold is the alleged: the 'skip site' that's the bounce's mark, the 'Mogul' that's the answer gave, and the 'hike led' that's the government's wink."]}],"name":"Alleged UFO Skip Site","aliases":[],"type":"FOLKLORE_LOCATION","type_label":"Folklore Location","cats":["UFO_LEGEND"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"Public-land site linked to Roswell-era folklore.","full_desc":"Alleged UFO Skip Site is a folklore location in Corona, New Mexico. Public-land site linked to Roswell-era folklore. It sits in the archive under UFO legends. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Corona","county":null,"state":"New Mexico","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":33.952189,"lon":-105.331214,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"BLM permits hiking access from its parking area, not vehicles. Existing approaches cross private land.","ownership":null,"website":"https://www.blm.gov/visit/alleged-ufo-skip-site","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Near Corona, not central Roswell. BLM agency-office address was intentionally excluded from site address. Agency links the Air Force Roswell Report for conflicting explanation; report requires separate retrieval.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.5,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":918,"type":"UFO_CRASH_LEGEND","description":"Bureau of Land Management recounts the belief that an alien-bearing craft crashed here in July 1947. Alleged UFO Skip Site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. 'Alleged UFO Skip Site | New Mexico' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Whatever flew there, the report made the location a permanent entry in the UFO ledger.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Alleged UFO Skip Site | New Mexico","url":"https://www.blm.gov/visit/alleged-ufo-skip-site","publisher":"Bureau of Land Management","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Bureau of Land Management recounts the belief that an alien-bearing craft crashed here in July 1947. Alleged UFO Skip Site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Alleged UFO Skip Site | New Mexico","url":"https://www.blm.gov/visit/alleged-ufo-skip-site","publisher":"Bureau of Land Management","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Alleged UFO Skip Site | New Mexico","url":"https://www.blm.gov/visit/alleged-ufo-skip-site","publisher":"Bureau of Land Management","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}