This Surprising UFO Story Has an El Paso Connection

Happy World UFO Day to everyone who believes we're not alone, and to everyone who occasionally falls down internet rabbit holes.

That's exactly what happened to me.

I came across an interview with retired Army intelligence officer and remote viewing expert Leonard "Lyn" Buchanan, who lives just up the road in Alamogordo, New Mexico. I figured I'd hear a few stories about UFOs and unexplained phenomena.

I was not expecting El Paso to suddenly get brought into the conversation.

A Former Army Intelligence Officer Shared a Very Strange El Paso Story

During the interview, Buchanan recalled meeting two men in El Paso.

According to Buchanan, the men claimed they weren't aliens. Instead, they said they had been enslaved by aliens on another planet and that their DNA had somehow changed because of it.

Their concern, according to Buchanan, was that DNA testing would reveal those changes.

And yes, I realize how absolutely wild that sounds.

Buchanan himself doesn't claim the story is true. In fact, he openly admits he has no way of knowing whether the men were telling the truth, he said they looked like two completely ordinary guys.

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The Story Raised More Questions Than Answers

I have questions.

Who were these guys?

Did they stay in El Paso?

Why did they decide to tell this story to a retired Army intelligence officer?

And perhaps most importantly…what restaurant was Buchanan at?!

Because the interview simply moves on after the El Paso story, and now I have somehow spent part of my day wondering if two regular-looking guys once stood in an El Paso parking lot discussing altered extraterrestrial DNA.

This seems like a case for Mulder and Scully. Here is the extended interview, you can catch the El Paso part at 1:01.

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Maybe This Is the Most Borderland Story Ever

Then again, maybe it's fitting that this story somehow circles back to El Paso.

The Borderland has never been afraid of a good mystery. We live near Roswell, we have endless desert skies and enough strange stories to keep conversations going for years.

Maybe there are perfectly reasonable explanations. Maybe the guys were joking. Maybe Buchanan misunderstood what they were trying to say.

Or maybe this is simply one of those stories that's destined to remain weird forever!

All I know is I started World UFO Day expecting a few stories about little green men and somehow ended up asking myself one very important question:

Where in El Paso was this parking lot?!