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As a longtime resident of New Mexico, our state is surrounded by a vast history of "close encounters". The challenge given to me was under the theme of "Outer Space". I wanted to evoke a sense of vintage advertising goodness but make it more exciting by giving the spaceman a job to do. That job was to patrol the universe for space monsters and exterminate them.