Most fans of the old Western B movies watched Rex Allen fight the outlaws and rescue the heroines without ever realizing that he was once a cross-eyed country singer who performed at barn dances.

Fortunately for everyone involved (Allen and fans alike), he had corrective surgery shortly after his singing career took off in Chicago. But his eye problem is prominently mentioned on a bronze plaque placed next to his statue in Railroad Avenue Park in Willcox. The larger-than-life bronze sits across the street from the Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum and the Willcox Cowboy Hall of Fame.

Today’s question: My friends and I often mountain-bike in the Dreamy Draw area. Recently one of the guys started talking about how a UFO crashed there in 1947 and was buried under the Dreamy Draw Dam. What’s up with that?

Well, I guess it depends on if you believe in UFOs or not. If you don’t believe in UFOs, then this story is just hooey. If you do believe in UFOs, then the Dreamy Draw Dam was built to cover one up.

Personally, I’m not sure what I think about UFOs and ETs and all that stuff. They don’t seem very likely, but on the other hand, it would explain a lot of my masters’ behavior. And clothes. They just haven’t learned our Earth ways yet. But I digress.

The Dreamy Draw UFO story, as you might expect, has several variations.