Retired Air Force major general missing for weeks once led Wright-Patterson, an Ohio base steeped in decades of UFO theories

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Streetlights shaped like alien heads line the roads of Roswell, New Mexico, where murals of flying saucers streak across storefronts and tourists pose beside statues of little green men. Nearly eight decades after a mysterious crash in the desert sparked global fascination with extraterrestrials, the small city remains synonymous