TITLE:  LAWMAKER PUSHES 'E.T' HIGHWAY RESOLUTION

PUBLICATION:  Las Vegas Review-Journal

DATE:  February 27(?), 1995

AUTHOR:  Ed Vogel

CARSON CITY -- Not every bill that comes before the [Nevada] 
Legislature deals with such weighty topics as crime, punishment 
and the budget.

Some of the bills are fun, like Assemblyman Roy Neighbors' 
resolution to designate a 98-mile stretch of state Route 375 as 
Nevada's official "Extra Terrestrial Alien Highway."

Neighbors, D-Tonopah, doesn't mind attaching his name to the UFO 
highway bill because he's a believer.

As a Navy pilot during the Korean War, he spotted a streaking blue 
object as he was was flying at about the 20,000-foot elevation 
over Florida and reported it to authorities.

"Nothing showed on radar," Neighbors said.  "Some Air Force guy 
came on the radio and said, 'What are you Navy guys drinking.'"

The isolated Lincoln County route Neighbors wants given special 
degination has for decades been the road where observers have 
noticed UFOs. Skeptics, of course, contend the objects likely are 
experimental aircraft being tested at the Groom Lake military base 
that the government refuses to acknowledge exists.

An "Extra Terrestrial Alien Highway" would attract national 
attention, Neighbors said.  "We'd put up some funny signs. 'Alien 
Crossing.' 'Watch Out for Low Flying Spacecraft.'  We'd have some 
fun with it and it would help attract people to Lincoln County."

[Article continues about other non-serious legislation pending 
before the Legislature.]

[Comments:  How long could those "funny signs" remain in place 
before tourists steal them? -- Psychospy@aol.com]

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