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Billy the Kid may have only had one or two photos taken within his life time, but he certainly did leave a paper trail of notable places where he lived, bordered, was jailed, and committed crimes. Maybe the Kid was smart. With little or no photo evidence, it was probably a lot harder to track him down.

But now there is a new six day itinerary tour where Billy the Kid fans can follow the footsteps of one of the West’s well known icons. It covers a lot of western territory that hasn’t changed much from the days Billy the Kid rode through—perhaps that is why his ghost feels right at home at some of these locations. These are just a few places you can visit while following the ghostly trail of Billy the Kid.

The tour of Billy the Kid territory compiled by the New Mexico Tourism Department begins in Silver City, New Mexico. On the NW corner of Hudson St and Broadway—adjacent to the Grant County Chamber of Commerce—is a marker near the site of Billy the Kid’s boyhood home from 1873 to 1874. On the SW corner, you will find a second marker that points out one of the Kid’s foster homes—the Star Hotel. The NE corner was the site of the city jail where Billy the Kid escaped by climbing up and out of the chimney. You can also pay your respects to the Kid’s mother who is buried in Memory Lane Cemetery, two miles to the NE.

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Night before last, Saturday night (07-25-2009), about 10:30 p.m. I was at the sink washing dishes, the TV had a few quick interruptions, didn�t lose contact, though. I went outside, and very low on the horizon, in the trees and just above and below the hills from my house was a flashing light. It was too low and too obscured by trees and hills to see, but it was a light of some sort at the same time my TV had brief interference. I could only barely see the light moving west for about 7 seconds – couldn�t see it well enough to say if it was a plane, etc. But no noise.

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From Silver City

It’s 2 am, I just came in from ufo sighting similar to the one I saw in the fall!! info: About 1 a.m.-ish I was in the kichen, listening to the tv weather station on Satelite… I lost frequency with the satellite about 3 times and it just popped into my thoughts – UFO- go out and look — sure enough, there it was…just coming over the back yard heading towards Phoenix. Triangle in shape, yellow/white, red and then green lights flashing, with a bright white/yellow at the nose, or point of the triangle. There was no sound, maybe a low, deep sort of slow continual wooshing. It traveled steadily and slowly. I raced indoors for my binoculars and phone, then watched for about 45 minutes as it slowly kept moving west towards Phoenix. A few times it went straight down then up again. It was hard to keep my eyes on it. It was just a small orange object with my eyes, but with the binocs I could see the three colors flashing clearly. The white seemed to be on the top always, with the red on the bottom and the green in the middle. It seemed to just stall and stay in one place for quite a while, went down and back up a couple times, went down really low in front of the mountain range, then back up and moved fast to the right. It was constantly getting further away headed towards Phoenix and interestingly enough suddenly some other flying objects appeared. One was probably a helicopter with a bright white light. Then a small low flying oldish sounding plane. While these other flyers were out in the UFO area it sort of vanished. There was a band of heavy clouds it could have dropped down behind or into, or it just dimmed all its lights, turned off all color and just looked like a star. Then a commercial jet going east from west came through this area. I was shivering so hard at this point from chill I had to go in. I went in circles debating who or if to call anyone, but it had vanished at this point. Sighting was 07/17/09 at approximatly 1230 a.m. to 2 a.m.

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