Your Weekend Guide to Roswell

This weekend in Roswell, New Mexico brings 2 live events across the city — from comedy to music. Here's what's on.

Roswell leans into its 1947 legend with total commitment, and the UFO Festival each July is the payoff — a weekend of costume contests, alien-themed parades, guest speakers, and live music that draws tens of thousands of believers and skeptics alike to this high-plains city. The International UFO Museum and Research Center anchors a downtown where even the streetlights have alien eyes. Beyond the saucers, the Eastern New Mexico State Fair brings rodeo and concerts each fall, and a growing downtown arts scene adds gallery walks and community events. It is small-city Americana with a delightfully weird twist.