Live Webcams in Roswell

Roswell, New Mexico, is a ranching city on the Pecos plain that became shorthand for the whole UFO phenomenon after the summer of 1947, and the live webcams in Roswell show it going about its ordinary day: a main street of low buildings under a very large sky, with the alien-themed shopfronts sitting beside the farm supply stores. Downtown streets are where the cams belong, where the light is hard, the traffic is slow, and the storms of the high plains arrive with warning. The city keeps Mountain Time, UTC−7, UTC−6 in summer, which makes dinner time in Paris a Roswell lunchtime, and the street fills for the UFO Festival in early July. Bottomless Lakes, some twelve miles east, became New Mexico's first state park in 1933, and it is not bottomless at all. April to May and September to October are the months to watch.