It's been over twenty years since I've been in that area of the state. Always liked the area, too bad the "wrong" element moved in!
It seems it's not just Silver City, check out the link below. I've never believed the stories of UFOs crashing in NM; but I may have to rethink that since it seems there may even have been return trips that dropped off passengers. Could this be behind the "real" purpose of the Space Port? Here is your NM tourism tax dollars at work, for the life of me I can't figure out how this would attract tourists, or at least the kind we might want to attract:
http://www.worldpeaceconference.org/