Fall/Winter 2025 - The Sabotage of United Flight 629

A violent explosion split the sky over Longmont on the evening of November 1, 1955. As airplane parts started raining down into freshly plowed fields, it quickly became clear that something horrible had happened. The story of that fateful flight—one of the country’s earliest air disasters—and the first televised trial in Colorado history comes to you from journalist Joe Rassenfoss in a special collaboration with The Colorado Sun. 

Also in this issue: Archaeologist Ken Feder brings you the absurd-but-true story of a nineteenth-century French newspaper hoax that tried to convince readers that extraterrestrial life had been found in Colorado! We’ll also take a trip back to the earliest days of Colorado’s museums when Martha Maxwell was paving the way for women in the field. Assistant Colorado Magazine editor Devin Flores took a fresh look at the story of America’s most famous dentist (Doc Holiday), and History Colorado exhibit developer Jeremy Morton invites us to join him on a trip through time to visit a place where nature has been reclaiming human history. 

All that (and so much more!) in the newest issue of The Colorado Magazine! Thank you for supporting our work. We are forever grateful to members and readers like you who make it all possible. 

—Sam Bock, Managing Editor and Director of Publications

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