Here's what Debby Stark of La Mirada magazine said about "High Strange New Mexico"

Having heard about so many odd things happening in New Mexico, journalist Anthony DellaFlora decided to write a book about it. His friend, movie director James Lujan, agreed to help him make a "five minute" promotional film for the yet-to-be-written book, so they took to the road with their hand-held Hi8 video camera to gather material.

Some 18 months later...they had enough material for several films and we saw a tightly edited, compelling compilation, two hours of it, on the evening of March 28 (1997).

The duo started out in a manner they admitted they hoped would be reminscent of cheezy UFO expose films. After showing a slapstick version of how they got ready, they hit the high spots of UFO New Mexico: Roswell, Dulce and Socorro. There was an air of "we've seen this before" about this part of the film, but it was still fun and I learned some new things. They visited the UFO festival in Roswell and the costumes the children wore were charming. The woman from the Chamber of Commerce was frankly honest about why the city was promoting its past: the money. That was one of the rare times the profit motive behind UFOlogy was mentioned in the movie. It was clear, for example, that Becky and Manuel Escamilla hope to make some money selling videos of the UFOs they have seen -- but have indeed seen a lot of very strange things, as have many of their neighbors.

The film hopped from one corner of the state to another, keeping a sense of humor but also slowly becoming more serious as they interviewed many local people and some from adjoining states who we have heard from: Walter Haut (Corona and Roswell), Henry Monteith (government secrecy and abductions), Clifford Stone (documenting government secrecy), Gale Staehlin (cattle mutilations), Gabe Valdez (mutilations, Dulce, and more), David Perkins (research and cattle mutilations), Vance Davis (secrecy), Karl Pflock (secrecy, observations), Tom Adams (from Texas, informative about many facets of the field), Rainbow Eagle (Native American reactions to UFOs), Barbara Glasgow (abductions), and many, many more people.

They even presented a skeptic. While Dave Thomas came off sounding a little silly in contrast to those who were explaining their experiences, he couldn't help the editing and he also clearly had a sense of humor when they could have portrayed him in a harsh light. I found myself thinking that if he were to experience an unexplainable sighting of some kind (and he would try very hard to explain it logically), he would accept it with good grace. He did a very good card trick, too. (I'm glad he's a New Mexican.)

I hope all those who appeared in and helped make the film are proud of themselves: they did an excellent job. I want a copy of the film when it comes out on video. Anthony said they want to do that eventually, but now they're hoping to hit the film festival circuit and already have plans, for example, to show it at the July 1997 Roswell festival...This film should be in the video library of anyone who is interested in the amazing things that have happened in New Mexico.