UFO Welcome Center - Bowman, SC

UFO Welcome Center, Bowman, SC 

I need a quick detour to check on the UFO Welcome center in Bowman, SC if I am ever in the area. It isn't a happy sight. The UFO is looking pretty shaky. The next good breeze might send it flying. Funny how these quirky scenes make it into every roadside wonder web site yet none of the locals pay any attention to them.

The saucer-shaped UFO Welcome Center stands in Jody's yard. He began building it in 1994, intending it to be a place where aliens could be comfortable meeting people from Earth (it's 46 feet across, the same diameter as most UFOs, according to Jody). He later added a second, smaller saucer on top so that the aliens can take Jody with them when they leave. 

UFO Welcome Station - Before & After

UFO Welcome Center, Bowman, S.C.

It may hold a place of honor in the Backroad Wonders of South Carolina, but the UFO Welcome Center in Bowman, S.C. looks a little worse for wear. The fence is down and the siding is flapping in the breeze. The UFO may actually take off flying in a significant storm. Then who will we have to welcome the aliens? It is a sad state of affairs.

The top, more recent photo was taken a week or two ago. The bottom one is from 2004.

I hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy through this wicked flu season. I've been very busy at work lately as we seem to be rushing headlong into 2013. In other news, I got a new refrigerator this morning - yipee! It isn't a fancy schamcy thing but it does have a bottom freezer which I think I will like.