The Alien Zone

This place is great for kitschy photo ops, which is what we came for. You know, those photo you are going to upload to FB or Instagram to say you’ve been to Roswell. The price of admission is very cheap as it should be for this type of display. Everything is pretty old, so don’t go in expecting much.

Fantastically gimmicky.
You do indeed get what you pay for, and this little tour is cheap so don’t expect too much! The displays are old and very cheesy, but that just adds to the fun!

First off you get what you pay for and you have to make your own fun sometimes. It cost 3.00 everything seems very old and dusty.
We had fun though! Took fun photos and acted a fool. Good times

Funny and silly… kinda dark and creepy but worth the funny pics with the kids… good for a few laughs… cheap

We stopped here for a break from our road trip. Overall, Roswell was rather disappointing in terms of alien places. This place takes the cake in the creepy factor. It’s the type of place you’d see on Law & Order: SVU. The dark, dank building which caters to families is a pervert’s paradise. I would not return here.

This place is filthy. I wouldn’t even use my hand to open the door. I used my foot. However, we still had fun taking photos. If you go take Lysol. All the places to take interactive pictures are covered in dust, grease and grime. There are holes in the wall from mice and it looks like one mouse ate an alien’s foot off! With some major cleanup I would give this place five stars

We had so much fun in this place. It’s like an interactive alien set design for picture taking. ‘very creative and kudos to the designers and artists that realized this place. Great for friends or families. Well worth the $ 3 admission. Very humorous.
This is nothing high minded. Just go, have fun and have your camera ready!

Best $ 3 I spend in Roswell, love the displays in Area 51 to take pictures with. It was alot of fun, loved it.

Fun! Fun! Fun! Kinda creepy and old but had a great time! Gotta do the Area 51 walkthrough! Cost a couple of bucks but worth it, especially if you have kids or teenagers! Also their gift shop is far cheaper than all the others around and is just as good! Would come back one day…

For $ 3 a person, you can take the most ridiculously campy photos ever. That’s why you’re in Roswell, right? Did you really expect any of this to be serious? If you want serious, go to the UFO museum. If you want campy fun, go to the Alien Zone.
There is a gift shop up front — I preferred the souvenirs at the museum, but some of the shirts here are funny. The lady that was working was a sweetheart and I’m sorry to have not gotten her name. Right behind the merchandise is an indoor playground set and then you can walk back into a café area. The café does not seem to be working, but there are some silly aliens back there and it’s worth at least a look.
The section where you can take pictures with aliens is really the reason to visit, though. There are several different scenes, so get creative! You can take a picture in a UFO or perhaps you’d like to join the BBQ party. I chose to get intoxicated at the alien bar. (Note to future patrons: you can not actually drink here, but you can pretend like I did.) There’s also an alien with fully formed genitalia, which makes me wonder — who took the time to craft and mold genitalia on an alien dummy? Someone either likes for things to be very anatomically correct (according to human biology, anyway) or they had way too much time on their hands at work that day.
Some of the sections were not well lit due to broken lights, but the lady working did give us a heads up. If you use the flash on your camera, the pictures will still turn out fine. I imagine they will fix the lights in the future, so you might not have this issue on future visits.
If you’re not the uptight type and you don’t mind having a little silly fun and using your imagination, you’ll enjoy this place for what it is. The Alien Zone is not holding itself up to some high standard and it doesn’t pretend to be anything other than silliness for all ages to enjoy, so don’t be a stick in the mud when you come here. Lower your expectations and you’ll be pleasantly surprised with how much you can enjoy yourself.

In my opinion, it’s THE place to visit when you’re in Roswell. A whole lot better place than the UFO Museum down the street because you can seriously have a lot of fun and laughs taking pictures with their alien exhibits/​displays. There’s a free section and there’s a paid section that costs $ 3/​person to get in.
Having already spend $ 5 to get into the UFO Museum, we wished we would have visited this place earlier to spend the money here instead. So, we just stuck with the free section to take some pictures and brought some items from here.
The gift shop area of the store is great because they have items that start as low as 50 cents.

My kids visited The Alien Zone about a year ago and not only had a blast, but took the funniest photos. They were excited to go back over Thanksgiving and bring some others with us. We were so disappointed! Several of the displays were dark rather than lit up. Many of the props were missing. The whole experience felt run down and disappointing compared to what it was a year ago.

I have no idea how this place has a 4 star rating. The merchandise is completely generic and cheap. It’s not the worst shop in Roswell but that’s not saying much. Kind of a let down.

$ 3 (price for adult) for fun and laughs. I came by myself and took 70 photos. I will cherish the memories and the silly fun I had; it was nice as an adult to just live and enjoy life a little.
I highly recommend stopping in if you are in the area. I satisfied my alien-​itch with this light hearted spectacle, and finished the whole event with purchasing some alien gizmos.
It’s like peter pan meets ET. You wont be disappointed… only if you have no imagination.

Hands down one of the best stops for alien kitsch in town! The guy that runs it is super cool, the gift shop has THE BEST PRICES IN TOWN so no need to really shop around unless you have loads of time.
Be sure to bring your camera because the gallery in the back is a riot! Worth the price of admission if you are into FUN ALIEN DISPLAYS.

For photography laughs, this is the place to go. There are bunches of hands-​on props where you can take pictures with aliens in various settings. The front of the store is a gift shop, and in the back is Area 51, which costs $ 3 a person — and is worth it for the cheesy fun. Kids & adults will equally enjoy. This was our favorite place we visited while in Roswell.

This place is pretty cool. We stopped in Roswell because we wanted to see what the alien hype was about. In looking at reviews we chose this place because it said it was friendlier. If you are looking for real history on aliens, you will not find it here by looking around. The exhibits are more for fun rather then education and history.
So with all that being said why 5 stars. If you take the time to chat with the owner, you will get more information and a better experience then the museum. Most people come in and don’t want to take the time to chat with the owner and in that respect, you may not feel like this place was worth the time.
It all depends on what you are looking for. We wanted history and someone to chat with who knows the stories and has had real experiences and this owner has a lot to share and the time spent was not a waste.
The back room with the alien photo ops was kind of cool, the real history comes from the owner. If you want something more, buy some books he has there. I would definately stop here again for if nothing else to just chat with the owner.

The trick to liking this place is keeping your expectations low. Very, very low.
In fact, that pretty much applies to Roswell in general.
This place was probably the most entertaining of all the alien related shops/​exhibits. The gift shop itself isn’t that great. There is a better one across the street but the back room with the alien photo ops was kind of cool.
You pay three dollars and you get to enter the «alien zone». It’s basically a very low budget attraction made up of a few different alien scenes. You can take pictures with an alien in an outhouse, an alien bartender, etc.
It is humorous and memorable purely for the fact it is so incredibly cheesy. My buddy and I had a good laugh and snapped a few Facebook worthy pics but we didnt spend longer than ten minutes there. Ten minutes is more than enough to see and appreciate all that Alien Zone has to offer.
I don’t want to dog on this place too much because someone spent a considerable amount of time setting this up but it is obvious that initial time investment was made a long long time ago. I’m not sure they have done anything to this place since.
Nothing in Roswell will justify traveling there but if you are just passing through, take an hour and roam around downtown Roswell.
Just don’t expect too much.

If you’re a history buff looking to learn something new about Roswell, do not go here. This place is not educational — it’s campy — and it’s meant to be that way. Although I wouldn’t make a special trip to Roswell (it’s an odd, dusty small town with a lot of nice but zoned-​out, pothead-​like people), if you are planning a road trip that allows for the opportunity to pass by Roswell, then definitely stop by the Alien Zone. The Alien Zone is a souvenir store with «Area 51» (details below) located in the back of the store. Please note that on 8÷26÷11 (when I went) there were two Alien Zones within a couple of blocks from one another. One was shut down and the other was still running — make sure that you go to the correct one.
For a measly $ 3 per adult, Area 51 allows for all day free-​reign use (including in and out privileges) of various props and set designs featuring aliens. In other words, Area 51 is the perfect place for those looking for a great photo opportunity. Thanks to Area 51, I now have pictures of me getting out of an alien space ship, using an outhouse next to an alien, being de-​pants by an alien at a bar, kicking back at an after party with aliens, riding around town on a motorcycle with an alien, at a phone booth with an alien, bbq’ing with aliens, etc. Although the place allows for all day use, I think the average joe would only spend a few minutes here.
There’s no air conditioning in Area 51 (although there is in the rest of the store) so we were sweating up a storm and the place is musty and dusty but, again, it is great fun! You can experiment with pictures and set ups (please put things back where you found them if you do move them around — the store attendant told us about problems they were having with the theft and misuse of props which was just sad). But if you like to laugh at yourself and have fun being a bit inventive, then this might become one of the best places in town.
I have included some (definitely not all!) photos to give you an idea of some pictures you can take. If you still can’t come up with ideas, there are also photos strewn around the store that were sent in by other customers.

Whatta weird place. But that’s precisely what I was looking for in Roswell…
2 moderately apathetic teens were running the completely dark store front, filled with candy and misc junk. You can pass on all of this.
Wander to the back and you sit with aliens in the seemingly abandoned restaurant area. And check «photo with alien» off your «things to do in Roswell» list. THEN pay the $ 3 to enter Area 51 to take ridiculous pictures in ridiculous alien settings. This is WELL worth the $ 3. If you’re into goofy stuff like that. You will now realize your first photo is sub par compared to all this awesomeness.
And if you came to Roswell for alien insanity, this place captures it better than anywhere else in town.