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Lordsburg’s ‘Door’ purportedly transcends time
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
BY MIKE SMITHLike a broken-down car on blocks, the city of Lordsburg, is parked inthe extreme southwest corner of the state known as The Bootheel. Weedstwine through the town’s center as rust eats away at its edges.The largest settlement in Hidalgo County, Lordsburg is home to morethan 3,000 hardy souls, an allegedly thriving methamphetamine trade andwind and dust storms so intense they sometimes blow cars and trucksfrom one lane of I-10 into another. The businesses of Lordsburg’s mainstreet sit mostly abandoned and around the town, the surrounding desertcareens toward a horizon of ancient and eroded hills and warps into aworld of sand and cactus where things like traffic, politics, books andnewspapers start to feel like barely remembered dreams.Expectedly, in open country such as this, there’s a feeling of life gone atemporal, a feeling that isn’tdispelled upon talking with the locals. In this town, people trade stories of long-dead cowboys who chased flyingpterosaurs across the desert or airplane-sized “thunderbirds,” many times larger than any fowl alive today.What’s more, many of the residents of Lordsburg have claimed to have witnessed an abundance of UFOs andunexplainable lights. For the last 15 years, amateur ufologists Ramón Ortiz and Benjie Medina photographed and filmedscads of unexplained air traffic over Lordsburg, much of which were taken during the day. Many of their photos appear toshow technology far beyond any that is currently known to the public. According to Medina and Ortiz, these objects zip,hover, divide, flash and even change shape in mid-air. Of course, as the ufologists tell it, none of the phenomena hadanything to do with either the Lordsburg Municipal Airport or oval-shaped lenticular clouds or the not-too-distant WhiteSands Missile Range. In Lordsburg, the multitude of strange tales suggest that perhaps the usual walls between the past and the present andthe present and the future, aren’t quite as solid as they should be. It’s only natural that people would lookfor something to explain it all — something like the “Lordsburg Door.”Also referred to as the Lordsburg Gate, locals say the fabled passageway is a sort of vortex, or portal that bridges bothtime and dimension. The Door is one proffered explanation for why the past and the future so often seem to meet inLordsburg in the form of living pterosaurs, supernatural entities and futuristic aircraft; it’s a reason why all can co-exist in the area so easily. Albuquerque resident Rob Feightner recently rode a Ducati motorcycle down to Lordsburg and Silver City to gatherinformation on this subject for this column. He chronicled his bizarre trip in his blog (desertoftherealeconomicanalysis.blogspot.com). As part of that journey,Feightner spoke with Hidalgo County resident Helena Hammer, who told him that certain Lordsburg-area ranchers say
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