Keep Watching The Skies!

The title is a movie line, and the movie came first. The Thing from Another World opened on April 7, 1951, the year before Operation Skywatch began, and closes with a newspaperman, Ned Scott, played by Douglas Spencer, radioing his story from the Arctic with a warning for the world: watch the skies, keep looking, keep watching the skies. His threat came from another planet, not the Soviet Union, and the line has been read ever since as carrying both the flying-saucer scares and the Red Scare of its day.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mai Wah Museum — 14 mi
  Two brick buildings left from Butte's Chinatown, and a store whose goods came home after seventy years away.
• Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine Memorial — 15 mi
  An overlook above the shaft where the 1917 fire began, and the letters some of the trapped men wrote while they waited.

More markers nearby

• Plutons and the Humbug Spires — steps away
• Meaderville — 15 mi
• The Boulder Batholith and the Richest Hill on Earth — 15 mi
• Butte — 15 mi