2022 UFO Vision Magazine

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Ogle Photo The winners of the 2021 Alien Pet Contest.

July 2, 1947: Something crashes 40 miles north of Roswell.

July 7, 1947: Press release by intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group about flying saucer crash is brought to Daily Record for publication.

July 8, 1947: Daily Record reports flying saucer captured near Roswell.

July 9, 1947: Daily Record reports Army determines craft was a weather balloon, not a UFO.

July 11, 1947: Crash appears to be yesterday’s news.

March 25, 1948: Something crashes in Aztec, New Mexico.

1950: First Hollywood movies feature flying saucers, no longer rockets.

1978: Researchers, including nuclear physicist, author and UFO researcher Stanton Friedman, begin studying the “Roswell Incident.”

1991: International UFO Museum and Research Center opens in Roswell.

1994: Movie “Roswell” is filmed — tourism picks up in Roswell.

1994: Roswell Mayor Tom Jennings issues proclamation for July being UFO Awareness Month.

1994: U.S. Rep. Steve Schiff requests the General Accounting Office to

search government records for the truth about Roswell, triggering reaction of Air Force.

1995: Air Force releases report denouncing alleged UFO cover-up, says it was nuclear surveillance balloon with humanoid-shaped dummies.

July 1995: UFO Encounter ‘95, the first UFO festival and serious lectures about “Roswell Incident,” takes place in Roswell.

January, 1997: International UFO Museum and Research Center moves into historic Plains Theater building after extensive remodeling.

July 1997: UFO Encounter ‘97, marking the 50th anniversary of the reported crash, draws near 50,000 tourists in weeklong events, 450 journalists from 301 press organizations and 16 countries with live TV coverage.

1997: Air Force press release says “aliens” found at crash site were crashtest dummies used for parachute tests.

2002: After Sept. 11 attack, still close to 11,000 visitors attend the Roswell UFO Festival.

2013: CIA releases 407 page document with Area 51 location, admitting existence for the first time — no men-

tioning of alleged Roswell UFO.

2015: The English theoretical physicist, cosmologist and Director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge Stephen Hawking launches the Breakthrough Listen project, which will scan the nearest million stars for signs of life.

2016: Daily Record joins the UFO Festival with journalistic history-focused panel, “The Roswell Incident.”

September 2016: Stephen Hawking releases the short film “Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places,” in which he states, “As I grow older I am more convinced than ever that we are not alone (in the Universe).”

2017: 70th anniversary of alleged crash brings in more than 20,000 visitors, spending $1.5 million; researchers and scientists and more than 100 journalists from over 10 countries are in Roswell. TV shows, “Expedition Unknown: The Hunt for Extraterrestrials” on Travel Channel and “Carnival Eats: Close Encounters of the Food Kind,” are filmed during festival.

2019: International UFO Museum and Research Center goes hi-tech with interactive apps.

April 27, 2020: The Pentagon releases three Navy videos that contain “unidentified aerial phenomena.” These were taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015.

June 20, 2020: President Donald Trump said that he will not say anything, even to his oldest child, but that “Roswell is very interesting.”

June 23, 2020: New York Magazine breaks news with headline, “Senate Intelligence Committee Votes to Allow Public to See UFO Records.”

Aug. 4, 2020: Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial PhenomenaTask Force.

Aug. 14, 2020: A press release states, “The Department of the Navy, under the cognizance of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, will lead the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. This includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAP when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing.”

Oct. 21, 2020: Cornell University astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger and

Lehigh University’s Joshua Pepper release their paper on identifying more than 1,000 main-sequence stars — similar to the Earth’s sun — that might contain Earth-like planets in their own habitable zones within about 300 lightyears from Earth and prove that these planets would be able to detect Earth’s chemical traces of life.

May 14, 2021: A video taken aboard the U.S. Navy ship USS Omaha in July 2019 gets leaked and headlines the news throughout the world. The video is the source of two freeze-frame images of unidentified aerial objects that were previously released and “that a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed was recorded by U.S. Navy personnel.” May 17, 2022: First congressional hearing on UFO sightings in more than 50 years. A new label is used by the U.S. Navy — “UAP” (unidentified aerial phenomenon). Pentagon officials say no evidence suggests that UAPs are non-terrestrial in origin.

June 9, 2022: NASA to set up its own independent study team in early fall to examine UAPs.

To be continued in 2023.

75 years

the ‘crash’

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

More than a dozen organizations, businesses, museums, the city of Roswell and the Roswell Daily Record are inviting locals and visitors, from July 1 to 3, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the alleged UFO crash in the high desert outside of Roswell. The events include UFO Festival vendors and entertainment in and around the Roswell Convention Center; Galacticon, featuring sci-fi authors, games, cosplayers and steampunk; as well as live music and entertainment at the Chaves County Courthouse and Reischman Park, located downtown on Main Street. MainStreet Roswell has its booth there and visitors are invited to pick up their free

“passport” for a scavenger hunt leading to local businesses. Popular events are the SciFi Film Fest at the Allen Theater Galaxy 8 at the mall, the Alien Pet Contest and Human Alien Costume Contest at the courthouse and the parade downtown. The theme of the parade this year is, “Close Encounters of the Roswell Kind.” Anybody can join the parade. Forms are available with a deadline of July 1, 5 p.m. at the MainStreet Roswell booth, or online at mainstreetroswell.org. There are various tours offered, including one that takes visitors to the Roswell Daily Record, to the 1947 reenactment play at the Roswell Community Little Theatre — which is also hosting a bat -

tle of the bands — and to the Walker Aviation Museum. Battle of the bands winner will be opening for the UFO Festival main concert at DeBremond Stadium with headlining band Midland as well as William Clark Green and Laci Kaye Booth on July 2. Speaking of main concerts, the main headliner at the courthouse later that night is the Facebook viral sensation Reina Del Cid on Saturday evening. The duo was stranded in Roswell having to get their van repaired and encountered the hospitality of Roswell. As a thank you, they wrote a little song about the Roswell Incident — which got more than 10,000 shares on Facebook within a couple of days.

Restaurants and wineries have extended their hours during the festival, and there are a multitude of food vendors present as well as a beer garden at the

convention center. Some businesses joined in with special souvenirs of the “out of this world” kind. Others are offering virtual space walks, laser tag fun and even an interactive miniature exhibit, “Bricktown Alien Attack — We Come in Pieces,” on East Second Street, which was built with the help of local game inventor Matt Bromley, with more than 250,000 Lego bricks. Then there is Roswell’s art community — watch out for the “alien creature” lurking in and around the Roswell Museum with its special exhibit “Future Shock: (Re) Visions of Tomorrow.” There will be live space-inspired music at the museum. The Robert H. Goddard Planetarium, which is attached to the museum, features a vari -

see Crash on page 20

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One never knows who is going to visit Roswell’s

UFO Festival, from “predators” to tourists

from overseas, everybody is

Roswell Daily Record’s Roswell Incident

A journalistic approach showing secret technology, NASA videos of unknown aircraft and possible proof of alien visitations

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

Anewspaper’s duty is to inform their readers about newsworthy facts, being neutral and unbiased, its trained journalists and editors held to the highest standards, and to report the truth. A difficult position because sometimes the “truth” is hard to find.

In 1947, press releases coming from the government or the military were considered authentic and truthful, so when the Roswell Army Airfield on July 7, 1947 delivered the press release about a crashed “Flying Saucer” to the Roswell Daily Record, its journalists were at the forefront questioning witnesses and attending the press conference. The Roswell Daily Record was one of the first newspapers to announce the crash and publish the results of the initial investigation on July 8. That same day the story broke that it had been a weather balloon, which was published on July 9.

This event became the world’s most mysterious case, with conspiracy theories surrounding the incident, and even today the truth is still hidden — or is it?

This year, top UFO journalists, investigators, screen writers and ex-government officials in the field will present facts, theories and new ideas about scientific discoveries and the UFO phenomenon at the Roswell Daily Record’s Roswell Incident event in the Roswell Convention Center during the UFO Festival.

A special event takes place on July 1 at 9

p.m. at Cielo Grande Sports Complex. Host of the TV series “UFO Witness” on Discovery+ and the Travel Channel, Ben Hansen, and astronomer and chief photo analyst for the Mutual UFO Network, Marc D’Antonio, will lecture about sky watching techniques while using the latest in military night-vision technology projected live on a large screen for the audience. They will explain how to identify satellites, planes, planets and stars and differentiate those “natural” occurrences from anomalous phenomena. An assortment of night-vision goggles will be available for participants to try out as well as scopes connected to monitors for viewing. The organizers recommend that participants bring lawn chairs or blankets, insect spray and water.

Roswell Incident Speakers:

Mike Bara

Bara is a New York Times Bestselling author, lecturer and TV personality. He began his writing career after spending more than 25 years as an engineering designer and consultant for major aerospace companies, where he was a card-carrying member of the Military/industrial complex. A self-described “born again conspiracy theorist,” Bara’s first book “Dark Mission — The Secret History of NASA” was a New York Times bestseller in 2007. Bara has made numerous pub-

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UFO Museum’s Ufologist Invasion

Speaker programs cover new evidence related to Roswell’s ‘flying saucer,’ mysteries and abductions

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

The International UFO Museum and Research Center is located in the heart of downtown Roswell, and is celebrating this year the museum’s 25th anniversary at its location at 114 N. Main St. The museum itself had its beginnings in 1991 as a nonprofit and is today the best source for researchers and scientists from all over the world with its vast library and materials, not only about the 1947 Roswell event, but also about UFO sightings and incidents throughout the world. Ten years in the mak-

ing, the museum took advantage of the forced lockdown due to the pandemic to finish upgrading and modernizing the museum with interactive hi-tech and professionally designed displays.

This year, the museum is hosting a wide array of guest speakers for its UFOlogist Invasion that will take place in part at the museum and also at the Roswell Convention Center.

One of the speakers is Kathleen Marden. Marden’s interest in UFOs began in 1961, when her aunt and uncle, Betty and Barney Hill,

had a close encounter and subsequent abduction in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. She spent 15 years investigating this abduction case.

In a phone interview Marden said that she will give two lectures during the UFO Festival. “One of them is on the Betty and Barney Hill UFO abduction, but is going to be an update,” she said. “It’s going to be what we now know in 2022. And also, new scientific evaluation of the evidence, and we have some new evidence that hadn’t been evaluated before,

so that’s been pretty exciting.”

Asked about this new evidence, Marden said that she can give a hint, but the full story will be released during the lecture. “There was a substance discovered on Betty’s dress, and it is a metallic substance that absolutely should not be there. It’s rare, it’s expensive and it has a high melting point. And that is just one thing — there is more.”

Marden is a researcher, author, hypnosis practitioner and support group facilitator. She is known as one of the leading UFO contact researchers of our time. Since 1990, she has researched UFOs and

non-human entities associated with highly advanced aerial vehicles. Her research has extended to archival collections and the US government’s involvement in the investigation of UFOs and its major studies. Her bestseller with nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman (19342019) is “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience.” Marden is the 2013 recipient of the Mutual UFO Network’s “Researcher of the Year” award and the 2021 recipient of the International UFO Congress “Lifetime Achievement Award.”

One of the most renowned researchers of the 1947 Roswell case today is Donald “Don” R. Schmitt.

In a phone interview he said, “My partner, Thomas J. Carey and I will be presenting what is called ‘Our best case, our best evidence for Roswell Incident’ — our day in court. As a result of having interviewed over 600 witnesses, right to their deathbeds, attesting to the fact that this happened. That that press release that went out on July 8 of 1947, where they announced that they captured a flying saucer, was the correct one — was the true explanation on what crashed near Roswell.”

He is a six-time best-selling author. Schmitt is bringing a special edition of “Witness to Roswell,” for the 75th anniversary of the Roswell Incident, with him. “This is the third time it has been updated and revised, because we continue the investigation, and we continue to come up with new data, new eye witnesses and with the attrition rate of the World War II generation, we are getting more and more deathbed testimonies,” Schmitt said.

Donald Burleson is a mathematician, researcher, author and for 20 years the Mutual UFO Network state

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new developments

Schmitt is a co-founder of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell and serves as an advisor to the board of directors. Schmitt was an onset consultant and appeared on more than 24 TV shows.

Submitted Photo Kathleen Marden’s lecture this year will feature revealing

in the abduction case of Betty and Barney Hill.

Submitted Photo Author and UFO researcher Donald Schmitt will be attending this year’s UFOlogist Invasion at the International UFO Museum and Research Center.

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Fun at the UFO Festival

By Christina Stock Vision Editor

From family fun to Galacticon, from “alien crawls” to music and art — Roswell’s UFO Festival offers a wide range of entertainment for all ages and interests.

Chaves County Courthouse location

MainStreet Roswell is celebrating the UFO Festival at the Chaves County Courthouse. There will be various vendors and booths, free family crafts, selfie stations and of course, a wide variety of music and entertainment on all three festival days.

Visitors can pick up their free official “Roswell Passport” at the Roswell MainStreet tent, which will guide them to local participating merchants. Return the full passport and pick up a free goody bag with souvenirs.

One of the locations on downtown Main Street is The Gallery, a co-op for a variety of local artists. Artist Tammy Alvarez, vice president of the Roswell Fine Arts League and The Gallery, said, “We will have crafts

for the kids to do during the UFO Festival for free while supplies last.”

There will be plenty of photo ops and the Dewback Ridge Garrison of the 501st Legion Star Wars Storm Troopers and glowing Robotrons will be on site. Vice President of the MainStreet Roswell Board of Directors Molly Boyles said that this year more Robotrons will be attending than in the past years. “They enjoyed themselves so much,” she said. “During daylight hours you’re likely to see some at Galacticon (in the Roswell Convention Center).”

According to Boyles, there will be a kids’ booth where aluminum hats are created so that “aliens” can’t read their minds. “There will be free games, jewelry making, light sabers out of pool noodles, alien mask making, a variety of different fun games as well. Of course, we’ll have (live) music and DJ music. Food vendors will be in the parking lot to the east of the courthouse, off of Virginia Avenue,” Boyles said.

Friday night belongs to the Alien Cos -

tume Contest at 8 p.m. It is one of the most colorful displays, showing cosplayers and creative visitors from “outer space” who are competing to be the winner. There are several categories, depending on the age of the participants. On Saturday morning, the courthouse stage is open for the finest breeds in the universe at the Alien Pet Contest at 9 a.m. No matter if your “alien” pet has scales or fur, hooves or paws, everybody has a chance to win. Right after the pet contest the parade begins heading from West 12th Street to Main Street to disburse on Third Street. This year’s theme is, “Close Encounters of the Roswell Kind.”

Music:

One of the musicians performing at the courthouse is Captain Klas and Family. Klas Åhman is originally from Sweden and came to Roswell as an exchange student in 1997. Åhman used the free time due to the pandemic lockdown to create a new music genre.

“It’s definitely has taken a more Western feel to it,” he said in a phone interview. “Kind of like a Western goth kind of thing, along with some happier stuff, inspired by my many turns in my life. I got married this year and have a little 3-year-old baby and we have

a ranch here in La Luz.”

Also performing is the band Griefcase. Finding their sound as a two-piece polyrhythmic, shoegaze, Mid-West emo math rock band in El Paso, Texas, Griefcase is a unique duo with various musical influences from its members. “This is our first time in Roswell ever and we are really happy that we get to play our first show during the anniversary of the crash landing,” drummer Derek Williams wrote. “We are looking forward to everything the UFO festival has to offer. It’s our first time here and it sounds like a lot of fun.“

Roswell Convention Center location:

Galacticon

Next to the Ufologist Invasion speakers and Roswell Incident speakers, Galacticon takes place inside the convention center. The Galacticon ticket covers “close encounters” with authors such as John LeMay, historian and expert on unusual phenomena in history; UFO researcher, Star Trek authority and author EJ Wilson; and sci-fi author Eide S. Nevets. Roswell has a huge steampunk community that are part of Galacticon and

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A large crowd turned out in 2021 to see which costume might win at the MainStreet Roswell Alien People Contest. This group of famous female science fiction characters were the winners in the adult group category. Who will be the winner this year?

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

2022 UFO Festival, Galacticon, Roswell Incident and UFO Museum UFOlogist Invasion

Noon - 1:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Robert Salas RCC/ UAP Secrecy and Nuclear Weapons Meeting Room A Noon - 1:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Larry Holcombe UFO Museum/ Disclosure: Be careful what you wish for North Library

Noon

Galacticon Games “Space Base” with John Curtis RCC

9:30 - 11 a.m.

Thom Reed / First true UFO Incident

Invasion: Don Schmitt

Incident: “Hidden Agenda: The Truth Behind

UFO Disclosure Craze” by Mike Bara

10 a.m. Alien Crawl Tour A registration

Cantina

10 - 11:30 a.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Dennis Balthaser UFO Museum/ Scrutinizing Roswell, Area 51, bases and pyramids................................. North Library 10 - 11:30 a.m. UFOlogist Invasion: David Marler

The Flying Saucer Invasion of 1950 Meeting Room A 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free alien themed art projects Bone Springs Art Space, 212 E. Walnut St. 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. Out of This World Art show and crafts The Gallery, 223 N. Main St.

11 a.m. Alien Crawl Tour A begins South of RCC on 9th Street

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Travis Walton RCC/ The Evolving Understanding of the Phenomenon Meeting Room B

11:15 a.m. - Roswell Incident: “Discernment: The Media’s Involvement RCC

12:45 p.m. with the Alien Agenda” by Melissa Tittle Meeting Room C/D

Noon - 6 p.m. Galacticon begins (vendors, games, cosplay and comics) RCC

Noon - 10 p.m. MainStreet Roswell vendors open Chaves County Courthouse (CCC)

Noon - 12:45 p.m. Live music with Marie Manning Reischman Park, North Main Street

Noon 1947 Re-enactment Tour registration RCC event check-in

12:30 - 2 p.m. Live music with Joe DeRusha Chaves County Courthouse (CCC)

1 p.m. 1947 Re-enactment Tour: Bus leaves to RCC Roswell Daily Record, Roswell Community Little Theatre for play and Walker Aviation Museum

1 p.m. UFO Festival opening and UFO Walk of Fame Pioneer Plaza ceremony for Stanton Friedman and Jesse Marcel North Main Street

1 p.m. Showing of the 1951 film “The Day the Earth Stood Still” Goddard Planetarium 1011 N. Richardson Ave.

1 p.m. Galacticon Games “Pathfinder: The Knight’s Keys, RCC The Awakening” with Jason Nooner

1 - 1:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Tom Carey’s UFO Museum/ Mini lecture about my top 5 UFO cases Video room

1 - 2 p.m. Live music with Ally Fink Reischman Park

1 - 2:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Yvonne Smith RCC/ Experiencer/Abductee Support Group Session Meeting Room B

1 - 10 p.m. Galaxy Fair opens with beer garden, kid’s zone, RCC vendors, live music and entertainment

2 p.m. Live music with 44th Army Band RCC / Galaxy stage

Date/Time Event

2 p.m. Galacticon Games “Imperial City of Rothenburg”

with game creator Daniel McKinley

2 p.m. Galacticon Games “Wingspan” with John Curtis

2 - 3:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Donald Burleson UFO Museum/ Classic UFO cases North Library

2 - 3:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Luis Elizondo RCC/ Reasons Why the US Government Keep UAPs secret Meeting Room A

2 - 3:30 p.m. Live music with Matthew Palmer ...........................................................................

2:10 - 3:10 p.m. Live music with Colton Stevens ...........................................................Reischman Park

2:30 - 4 p.m. Roswell Incident: “UFO Witnesses: The latest RCC/ Testimony and … the Truth” by Ben Hansen Meeting Room C/D

3 p.m. Alien Crawl Tour B registration Galaxy Cantina / RCC

3 p.m. Laser show Retro Goddard Planetarium

3 p.m. Galacticon Games “Matches” with Daniel McKinley

3 p.m. Live music with Shain Kausey

RCC / Galaxy stage

3 - 4:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Abduction Panel with Clyde Lewis, Kathleen Marden, RCC/ Thom Reed, Yvonne Smith and Travis Walton Meeting Room B

3:20 - 4:20 p.m. Live music with Nova Rush Reischman Park

3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Live music with Delaney Davis

4 p.m. Alien Crawl Tour B begins South of RCC on 9th Street

4 p.m. Galacticon Games “Taco Party!” with Matt Bromley

4 p.m. Galacticon Games “Aeon’s End” with John Curtis ................................................

4 p.m. Live music with Doso Dirtbags

4:15 - 5:15 p.m. Roswell Incident: Question and answer panel

RCC / Galaxy stage

with Mike Bara, Ben Hansen and Melissa Tittl Meeting Room C/D

4:30 - 5:15 p.m. Live music with Mary Annett Reischman Park

4 - 5:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: James Clarkson UFO Museum/ Women and UFOs North Library

4 - 5:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Bryan Bender — The UFO Caucus RCC/Meeting Room A

5 p.m. Laser show U2 Goddard Planetarium

5 - 7

Shock” happy hour and film screening

Date/Time Event Location

9:30 a.m. Parade “Close Encounters of the Roswell Kind” 12th Street to Third Street heading south on Main Street

9:30 - 11 a.m. Roswell Incident: “UFOs: From Fringe to Mainstream” RCC/ by Nick Pope Meeting Room C/D

10 a.m. - 10 p.m. MainStreet Roswell vendors open CCC / downtown

10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Galacticon continues RCC

10 a.m. - 6 p.m. SciFi Film Fest begins Galaxy 8 Allen Theaters at the mall, 4501 N. Main St.

10 a.m. - 8 p.m. Out of This World Art show and crafts. ............................ The Gallery, 223 N. Main St.

10 a.m. - 10 p.m. Galaxy Fair opens.................................................................................................. RCC

10 a.m. Live music with Znora RCC / Galaxy stage

10 a.m. SciFi Film Fest: “UFO Club” (feature film, 1:12 hrs) Galaxy 8

10 a.m. Galacticon Games “Dungeons & Dragons Of Wolves RCC and Men,” drop-in, with Matt Kaiser

10 a.m. Galacticon Games “Pathfinder: The Knight’s Keys, RCC The Deep” with Jason Nooner

10 a.m. Galacticon Games “Res Arcana” with John Curtis RCC

10 a.m. Alien Crawl Tour A registration Galaxy Cantina / RCC

10 - 11:30 a.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Tom Carey and Don Schmitt UFO Museum/ Roswell at 75: The Best Evidence North Library

10 - 11:30 a.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Alejandro Rojas

RCC/ Behind the Secret Pentagon UFO Program Meeting Room A

10:30 - 11:15 a.m. Live music with Marie Manning ...........................................................Reischman Park

11 a.m. Alien Crawl Tour A begins South of RCC on 9th Street

11 a.m. Sycamore Flood performs RCC / Galaxy stage

11 a.m. Galacticon Games “Return to Dark Tower” with Justin Foley RCC

11 a.m. Galacticon: “Superhero Cat Adventures” RCC a role playing game with Mary Alice Balderrama

11 a.m. Strolling wearable art performance by Nicole Roswell Museum and Banowetz as part of “Future Shock” exhibit RCC

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Kathleen Marden RCC/ The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction Meeting Room B

11:15 a.m. - Roswell Incident: “Yes, They Are Here” by RCC/

12:45 p.m. Marc D’Antonio Meeting Room C/D

11:10 a.m. SciFi Film Fest — block of short films: “Lifecell,” Galaxy 8

“Discover,” “Ghost Trippers” “Revival” and “Orbital Christmas” .....................................

11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Live music with Mary Annett Reischman Park

Noon 1947 Re-enactment Tour registration RCC event check-in Noon - 1:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Frank Kimbler UFO Museum/ The Roswell Crash, science, speculation and fantasy North Library

Noon - 1:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: David Marler — The Battle of L.A. RCC/Meeting Room A

Noon Galacticon Games “Lost Ruins of Arnak” with John Curtis RCC

Noon - 2 p.m. Live music by Oscar Butler CCC

12:30 p.m. College of Hip Hop performs RCC / Galaxy stage

1 p.m. 1947 Re-enactment Tour: Bus leaves to RCC Roswell Daily Record, Roswell Community Little Theatre for play and Walker Aviation Museum

1 p.m. Galacticon Games “Dead Planet: Martian Recon Team RCC Alpha” with Mary Alice Balderrama

1 p.m. Showing of the 1984 film “The Adventures of Goddard Planetarium Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension”

1 p.m. SciFi Film Fest: “Beyond the North Woods” (feature film, 1 hr) Galaxy 8

1 - 1:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Don Schmitt — Roswell lecture UFO Museum/Video Room

1 - 2:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Travis Walton RCC/ The Evolving Understanding of the Phenomenon Meeting Room B

1 - 4 p.m. “A Good Ole Fashioned Fourth of July” Historical Society for Guided tours, flags, goody bags for first Southeast New Mexico 100 visitors and door prizes................................. Museum (HSSNM), 200 N. Lea Ave.

1, 3 and 5 p.m. Galacticon Comic-topia NM: free trivia games with prizes RCC

1:15 - 2:45 p.m. Live music with Doso Dirtbags Reischman Park

2 p.m. Galacticon Games “Dungeons & Dragons” with Matt Kaiser RCC

2 p.m. Galacticon Games “Great Western Trail” with John Curtis RCC

2 p.m. Galacticon Games “Batman ...” with Justin Foley RCC

2 p.m. Galacticon Games “Imperial City of Rothenburg” with Daniel McKinley

Date/Time Event Location

2:30 p.m. SciFi Film Fest — block of short films: Galaxy 8

“Gravity Hill,” “Xentastic,” “Particle Man” and “XJ210”

2:30 - 5 p.m. Roswell Incident: Showing of the film “A Tear in the Sky,”

RCC/ followed by a question and answer session with Meeting Room C/D Director Caroline Cory

3 p.m. Alien Crawl Tour B registration Galaxy Cantina / RCC

3 p.m. Galacticon Games “Pathfinder: The Knight’s Keys, RCC The Witches Key” with Jason Nooner ...........................................................................

3 p.m. Galacticon Games “Matches” with Daniel McKinley .............................................. RCC

3 p.m. Galacticon Games “Taco Party!” with Matt Bromley

3 p.m. Laser Show Ready Player One Goddard Planetarium

3 - 4 p.m. Live music with Rudy Saenz Reischman Park

3 - 4:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Abduction Panel

RCC/ Clyde Lewis, Kathleen Marden, Thom Reed, Meeting Room B Yvonne Smith and Travis Walton

4 p.m. Alien Crawl Tour B begins South of RCC on 9th Street

4 p.m. Galacticon Games “Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion” with Justin Foley RCC

4 p.m. SciFi Film Fest: “Blue Moon” (feature film, 1:23 hrs)

4 p.m. UFO Festival closing remarks

4 - 5:30 p.m. Live music by Doso DirtBags

4 - 5:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Luis Elizondo

Galaxy 8

RCC / Galaxy stage

CCC

RCC/ US Government Involvement in UAPs ............................................... Meeting Room A

4:15 - 5 p.m. Live music with Griefcase Reischman Park

4:15 - 5:15 p.m. Roswell Incident: Question and answer panel with RCC/ Marc D’Antonio, Caroline Cory and Nick Pope Meeting Room C/D

4:30 - 6:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Roswell Panel UFO Museum/ Alejandro Rojas, Dennis Balthaser, Don Burleson, North Library Tom Carey, Paul Davids, Frank Kimbler and Don Schmitt

5 p.m. Laser show Grateful Dead Goddard Planetarium

5 - 10 p.m. UFO Festival Main Concert featuring DeBremond Field the band Midland, opening is the winner of Cosmic Conquest — Battle of the Bands, also performing: William Clark Green and Laci Kaye Booth

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Live music with The Triad Reischman Park

6 - 7:30 p.m. Live music by Captain Klas and Family................................................................. CCC

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7 p.m. Giovanni String Quartet space-themed concert Roswell Museum

7 p.m. Laser show Metallica Goddard Planetarium

7 p.m. Roswell Invaders Baseball game Joe Bauman Stadium

7 - 9 p.m.

Invasion: Government Secrecy Panel w/ Bender, RCC/ Elizondo, Holcombe, Marler, Rojas and Salas

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10 a.m. Galacticon Games “Return to Dark Tower” with Justin Foley

10 a.m. Galacticon Games “Spirit Island” with John Curtis

10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Live music by Anthony Mcteigue

10:45 - 11:30 p.m. Live music with Marie Manning Reischman

11 a.m. Galacticon Games “Pirates of Fortune” with Matt Bromley

11:15 a.m. SciFi Film Fest — block of short films: “Lifecell,” Galaxy 8 “10262028,” “Who Killed My Dog,” “Orbital Christmas”

11:30 a.m. - Roswell Incident: Closing remarks by RDR Publisher

Noon Barbara Beck .................................................................................. Meeting Room

Noon 1947 Re-enactment Tour registration RCC event

Noon Galacticon Games “Pathfinder: The Knight’s Keys,

Cognizant Dissonance” with Jason Nooner

Noon Galacticon Games “Nemesis” with Justin Foley

Noon - 1 p.m. Live music with the Matthew Palmer Band

Noon - 1:15 p.m. Live music with Delaney Davis Reischman

Noon - 1:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Larry Holcombe

UFO Museum/ Roswell: The Importance Continues to Grow North Library

Noon - 1:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Paul Davids — The classic UFO books and RCC/ the authors who first broke the UFO cover-up Meeting Room A

Noon - 1:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Alejandro Rojas RCC/ Little Known Roswell Facts Meeting Room B

1 p.m. 1947 Re-enactment Tour: Bus leaves to RCC Roswell Daily Record, Roswell Community

Little Theatre for play and Walker Aviation Museum

1 p.m. Galacticon Games “Dungeons & Dragons” with Matt Kaiser RCC

1 p.m. Galacticon Games “Taco Party!” with Matt Bromley RCC

1 p.m. SciFi Film Fest: “Beyond the North Woods” (feature film, 1 hr) Galaxy 8

1 - 1:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Tom Carey UFO Museum/ Mini lecture about Roswell Hoaxes Video Room

1 - 3:30 p.m. Roswell Daily Record’s First Ufology and Paranormal RCC/ Phenomena International Film Festival Exhibit Meeting Room C/D

1 - 4 p.m. “A Good Ole Fashioned Fourth of July” continues HSSNM

1 - 4 p.m. Out of This World Art show and crafts The Gallery, 223 N. Main St.

1:30 - 3 p.m. Live music with Trinity Soul CCC

1:30 - 3 p.m. Live music with Saturday Night Riot Reischman Park

2 p.m. Galacticon Games “Imperial City of Rothenburg” with RCC Daniel McKinley

2 p.m. Galacticon Games “Marvel United” with John Curtis RCC

2 p.m. Galacticon Games “Legendary” — a Marvel RCC deck-building game with Justin Foley

2 - 3:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Tom Carey and Don Schmitt UFO Museum/ Touched by Roswell: Crash Encounters North Library of the Rich and Famous ................................................................................................

2 - 3:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: James Clarkson — UFOs RCC/Meeting Room A

2 - 3:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Dennis Balthaser UFO Museum/ Scrutinizing Roswell, Area 51, bases and pyramids Video Room

2 - 3:30 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Yvonne Smith RCC/ After Three Decades of Research … the Meeting Room B Abduction Experience is Alive and Well

2:30 p.m. SciFi Film Fest — block of short films: “XJ210,” Galaxy 8 “Peptink!,“ “Starship Impossible,” “Discover” and “Gravity Hill”

3 p.m. Galacticon Games “Matches” with Daniel McKinley RCC

3 p.m. Laser show Zeppelin Goddard Planetarium

4 p.m. SciFi Film Fest: “Blue Moon” (feature film, 1:23 hrs) Galaxy 8

4:30 - 6 p.m. UFOlogist Invasion: Roswell Panel UFO Museum/ Alejandro Rojas, Dennis Balthaser, Don Burleson, North Library Tom Carey, Paul Davids, Frank Kimbler and Don Schmitt

5 p.m. Laser show Beatles Goddard Planetarium

7 p.m. Roswell Invaders Baseball game Joe Bauman Stadium

Monday, July 4 Happy Independence Day!

1 - 4 p.m. “A Good Ole Fashioned Fourth of July” continues HSSNM

The calendar is subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances. For updates and more information, contact the event venue or organizer at galacticon.com, roswellincident.com (download the app) and ufofestival.com.

Film Festival times two

By Christina Stock

Vision Editor

This year, two film festivals will take place during the UFO Festival. On Saturday and Sunday, the annual Roswell SciFi Film Fest takes place at Allen Theaters Galaxy 8, located on the east side of the mall on North Main Street. On Sunday, starting at 1 p.m., the Roswell Daily Record presents its first Ufology and Paranormal Phenomena International Film Festival Exhibit at the Roswell Convention Center.

Roswell SciFi Film Fest

Established in 2010, The Roswell SciFi Film Fest is dedicated to bringing artists’ visions of the universe to the UFO capital of the world. It provides a venue for independent sci-fi, horror and fantasy filmmakers to get their films screened as well as network

with some of the best independent short- and feature-length filmmakers of these genres in the world.

The films shown require a Galacticon day pass. The films are shown as short film blocks and feature films.

There are three feature films competing:

“Beyond the North Woods” is listed as horror. The film is written and directed by Lance Todd. Paul and his videographer Angela travel to Duluth, Minnesota to shoot an episode of their YouTube series “Para-Abnormal.” They meet with a local park ranger who takes them deep into the forest for an interview about several recent disappearances. Night falls as they are shooting and the group becomes lost. They begin to question their sanity as the weather drastically changes and

a hidden threat lurks in the shadows.

“UFO Club” is having its premiere in Roswell. The sci-fi comedy is written and directed by Steven G. Tsapelas. When nerdy high school senior William learns his hero, an eccentric UFO hunter, has been arrested, he searches for a piece of evidence that will prove his innocence. However, it’s fallen into the hands of Alexandra, an intimidatingly confident classmate. The quirky romantic comedy is set in 1998.

“Blue Moon” is listed as a drama and is written and directed by Matthew Alson Thornbury. It is a semi-autobiographical “mostly true” tale of a man who travels back to eastern Kentucky to deal with the death of his estranged father.

Ufology and Paranormal Phenomena International Film Festival Exhibit

The festival is presented as an imminent cultural and debate forum, which makes the dream of a group of filmmakers and researchers from Argentina come true.

“We seek to make visible the true origin behind the representations in cinema and television about ufology and paranormal phenomena, which have been present throughout the history of humanity,” Máximo Veron, director of the festival, said.

Some of the festival’s objectives are to generate a space for fostering and promoting audiovisual productions from all over the world and to provide the viewers with an extensive and deep look at the UFO and paranormal universe.

Next to Veron, who is an independent filmmaker as well, the producers of the festival are film professionals and expert researchers, such as Ivan Inannamico. Inannamico is a filmmaker and producer for Disney Latin America. Julieta Billordo is a graphic designer, independent producer and filmmaker. Andrea Pérez Simondini is a UFO research-

er and producer of “The Unxplained Latin America ‘’ and “Ancient Aliens Latin America,” and director of the Study Commission of the UFO Phenomenon of the Argentinian Republic. Simondini is a member of the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research.

There will be six short films under 56 minutes and five films that run more than an hour. The films featured are from Argentina, France, Germany, Macedonia, Mexico, Spain, South Africa and the U.S.

The longer films are:

“Gothic Springs” is listed as a sci-fi drama and directed by Lindsey Lemez. The story follows a gothic teen girl who, a year after her grandfather’s alien abduction, visits her widowed grandmother only to find out what she thought was going to be a boring summer turns out to be out of this world.

“A Black Man in Zimbabwe” is a documentary film directed by Roger Horn. The synopsis is: “In 1994, 62 school children in Ruwa, Zimbabwe claimed to have seen a UFO and a black man on the school playground. No teachers or school employees witnessed the sighting. Fact or creative fabrication? Filmed in extreme close-ups, director Horn lets his imagination run wild as he combines archival interviews with visuals collected from throughout Southern Africa and Europe.”

“Magnetic Fields” (Les Champs Magnétiques) is a sci-fi film directed by Romain Daudet-Jahan.

“Alone in the middle of the forest, Solal, eleven years old, equipped with a magnetic field detector, is looking for his missing mother, convinced that she was abducted by aliens. His meeting with Lena, a runaway teenager intrigued by his behavior, will disturb his quest. …”

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ety of laser shows.

The center of the festivities is downtown Roswell. Those who are curious about what really happened and want to learn about the events of 1947, as well as why a congressional hearing on UFO sightings took place on May 17 of this year, will be able to listen to the renowned speakers brought in by the International UFO Museum and Research Center. The speakers will be at the museum and in the Roswell Convention Center. These are top scientists and researchers who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of the truth.

The Roswell Daily Record is presenting its own Roswell Incident event. Top UFO journalists, investigators, screen writers and ex-government officials in the field will be speaking and presenting their cases at the Roswell Convention Center. New this year is the UFO Night Sky Watch at Cielo Grande Sports Complex. It will be hosted by UFO researcher and TV host Ben Hansen and astronomer Marc D’Antonio. On the last day of the festival, the Roswell Daily Record hosts the first Ufology and Paranormal

Phenomena International Film Festival Exhibit at the convention center.

Whether one believes in visitors from outer space or not, there is no doubt that 75 years ago an aerial object crashed roughly 40 miles north of Roswell. While this sounds ominous, it was common for ranchers, cowboys and the people of Roswell to find crashed objects ever since Charles Lindbergh recommended Roswell to Robert H. Goddard — the father of rocketry. The open skies and low population were ideal for Goddard’s research and testing of his rockets between 1930 and 1942.

However, it was not only Goddard who saw the potential. One of the military’s most elite groups called the Roswell Army Air Field home. The men and women of the 509th Bombardment group were in charge of one of the most secret weapons during World War II: the atomic bomb. Twice a day weather balloons were deployed to support the B-29 Superfortress bombers with altitude and weather information, and the pilots and crew were practicing hitting targets, no matter how the weather was. With the heavy winds, the occasional weather balloon would crash. Expen -

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directed by Alfonso Loya. Filming took place in El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces and Radium Springs, New Mexico. Synopsis: A Mexican Immigrant family risks the Southwest desert in search of a better life, while encountering blinding lights in the sky.

“Colossus” is listed under sci-fi/cosmic horror and is directed by James Roe. Synopsis: A young Navy pilot’s life is shattered after being shot down by a UFO in World War II. Consumed by obsessive fear and hatred after been dishonorably discharged, he sets out on a quest to find and kill the creature that made him crash and fall burning into the sea.

“Flying Saucer” is an animation and listed under sci-fi comedy. The film is directed by Spencer Liles. The story follows a flying saucer finding Earth and wreaking havoc. “The galaxy is much bigger than we initially thought — and more mischievous.”

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Roswell Daily Record Archive Photo Stanton Friedman during his retirement celebration at the 2018 Roswell UFO Festival. He died May 13, 2019. Friedman and the late Maj. Jesse Marcel will be the first to be honored at this year’s UFO Festival at the city’s new Roswell Walk of Fame.

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sive technical devices were valuable, so locals were doing their part in the war effort when they were out tending cattle or mending fences. When they found one of those balloons, they called the sheriff, who then called the air field telling them where to find their equipment.

Oddly enough, when an object crashed on the ranch of W.W. “Mack” Brazel the week before July 4, 1947, the rancher, witnesses, the men who hauled the debris back to the base and the intelligence office personal of the 509th Bombardment group suddenly forgot what a weather balloon looked like — at least according to the Army, which retracted the press release given to the Roswell Daily Record for publication by intelligence officer Maj. Jesse Marcel on July 7, 1947. The headline read, “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region.” The press release was published on July 8 and the paper was barely off the press when the corrected press release came in.

The event could have easily been forgotten if not for nuclear physicist and UFO researcher Stanton Friedman learning about Roswell in 1978. He reached

out to retired Maj. Jesse Marcel, who told him the details. Meticulous researcher that he was, Friedman started contacting all the witnesses whose names Marcel had given him, which brought him to Roswell — after all, in those days the internet did not exist. He had to physically travel to research, in library and newspaper archives for hours on end, and he called up witnesses — that is, if he could find out where they had moved to. His diligence and enthusiasm caused others to join the search. The rest is history.

To honor Friedman and Marcel, who have both passed away, the city of Roswell is creating a UFO Walk of Fame, next to Pioneer Plaza downtown. The reveal will be on July 1 at 1 p.m. Attending the event are the daughters of Friedman, Melissa Friedman and Rachel Friedman.

In a phone interview, Melissa Friedman said that she was thrilled when she heard about her father being honored by the city of Roswell. “It’s just a really nice and touching gesture and Dad would be really thrilled to hear that he was honored in this way,” she said. “I am happy. He spent so much of his life and career dedicated to Roswell and to UFOs more broadly. He loved going to Roswell every year. It made him happy that UFOs were helping Roswell in a sense, in terms of tourism. ...

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He certainly would be happy to have that legacy or be known for that legacy.”

Also attending is Maj. Jesse Marcel’s grandson, Jesse Marcel III. He said that he is bringing his wife and two children as well as his colleague Dan Hally from his new UFO information collecting company, Alien Allure. Asked how he felt when he heard that his grandfather would be honored, Marcel III said in a phone interview, “I couldn’t be more proud and more excited about it to have the city of Roswell do this to honor my grandfather. He’s a big part of the story of Roswell and the UFO crash. He lived his life always believing in Roswell and his time served there at the local base and also his involvement in the UFO crash. We grew up with this. It’s nice to see that he is being honored. He was a very proud citizen of Roswell while he was living there. He always had the highest respect and loved the town. It’s a great honor to be there, to see this happen.”

Hally said, “We’ll be launching a 75th anniversary commemorative coin, and we

will be donating a percentage to the Roswell (UFO) festival. Not only at the event, but forever in the future. We really want to engage and be supportive of the people of the city of Roswell. Help expand tourism for the community and be a real positive force.”

Asked about the company, Hally said, “We are building this up to become a onestop for information, reporting of UFOs. We’re creating a community we’re calling Alien Allure Alliance so others around the globe will have a place to share and talk and all be connected to Jesse Marcel and his legacy, and we all are sharing information.”

Marcel III said that he hopes that people who were witnesses themselves will be more comfortable opening up and sharing their experiences. A website and social media pages including Facebook, under the company’s name, are ready to be filled.

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The Daily Record’s front page on July 8, 1947 features the Army press release.

lic appearances lecturing on the subjects of space science, NASA, physics, UFOs and metaphysics, and has been a featured guest on radio programs like Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory.

Bara has followed recent developments, as in the government’s film releases of what are now called unidentified aerial phenomena. During a phone interview, Bara said, “I find it fascinating. I am looking at these videos as an aerospace engineer — I am honestly not that impressed by them, in terms of technology being displayed. Why is the government and Pentagon trying to convince us that these might be alien crafts? I think that points to another agenda that we haven’t figured out yet. I think there are other videos, specifically some Space Shuttle videos that show powered vehicles performing beyond the law of physics in lower orbit, which are either alien spacecrafts or are our own secret technology. I wonder why those haven’t been given any scrutiny. The other videos, a lot of them I think can be explained. Why are they being given the attention and the good stuff isn’t?

“I am going to show you the current videos the pentagon has released,” Bara said. “We’re going to talk about whether they are possibly explainable as high tech -

nology test aircrafts of ours, whether they could possibly be alien spacecrafts, and I am going to show you some very amazing Space Shuttle videos where you are going to see that you are looking at technology beyond everything that we’re supposed to have had at this point in our history, operating in lower orbit, taken from NASA.

“I am going to talk about all the technologies, the possibility that there is a secret space program out there and the reality that we do have proof of alien visitation here on planet Earth, and we had it for a long time. At a minimum it goes back to the Roswell Incident in 1947, in reality it may go even further than that. I want to show people some real videos, some stuff that you may have never seen before,” Bara said.

“I would like to remind everybody, something extraordinary did happen near Roswell, 1947; something probably out of this world. If there was something that could have explained it away it would have been done by now by the people who don’t want you to know what is going on. They don’t want you to know how the universe works and who is looking at it and whether we’re alone or if we are surrounded by many, many other different species who have advanced technology. They don’t want you to know that. Something genuinely happened and this

event is going to be a wonderful celebration of that reality.”

Caroline Cory

Cory is an award-winning filmmaker and author of best-selling books on consciousness science and parapsychology. Based on her personal experiences, in 2010, Cory founded Omnium Media, an entertainment and media platform that tackles various thought-provoking topics on the human condition and the nature of reality. Her latest films include “Superhuman: The Invisible Made Visible” and “Among Us.” In addition to writing and producing, Cory appears regularly as a guest expert on supernatural phenomena and the science of consciousness at major conferences and on television shows, including “The UnXplained” with William Shatner and History Channel’s popular series, “Ancient Aliens.”

In a phone interview, Cory said, that she had an interest in paranormal subjects since she was very young. “I got into first the field of consciousness research,” she said. “How does it all work? Are we alone in the universe? These types of questions. For a very long time I did a lot of research and workshops and I wrote books on the subject. And I realized at one point there is a lot of validation in this subject and it is time to put it out in the mainstream and of course, the best way to do that is

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to make films. So I started making films about the subjects that I’ve been studying, researching and lecturing on for years and years, including UFOs.”

Getting to this point required research and — with an academic background in psychology — Cory worked with hundreds of people from around the world, collecting data. “I also was doing a lot of regression therapy as part of my work and I would have people tell me that they were abducted, that they were having contact experiences, they were seeing beings and communicate with them. So many people that didn’t know each other had a lot of common stories. So I got more and more intrigued by the extraterrestrial potential contact and possibilities which also includes the UFO subject,” Cory said.

Unique in terms of approaching UFOs is the fact that Cory is using military-grade equipment to make her newest film, “Tear in the Sky,” which will be shown at the festival. The film was supported by members of the USS Nimitz who were direct witnesses to the 2004 UFO encounter on board the nuclear aircraft carrier, which was captured in declassified video.

“I really wanted to do it at a high level,” Cory said. “You have to have very advanced technology. You have to have a large number of devices, you have to have correlation, you have to have triangulation and so, that was the vision. And then I a tumbled on a group that included the Navy personal from the USS Nimitz and those guys had teamed up with scientists and an engineer, his name is David Mason, and he had a lot of this equipment that he let us use. It was so lucky because he had, pretty much 95% equipment you see in the film is his. Some of it was mine. We were so lucky, of course, he had the normal cameras, normal night-vi -

sion goggles that people know about, even though it was military-grade, but he had also very advanced Flir cameras, these are thermal cameras that pick up temperature, thermal signature in the sky. It picks up a much wider bigger range of infrared spectrum and each one costs like $50,000, we had eight of those.”

Cory said that the film was made in part due to the frustration with the government reports that say there are unknown flying phenomena existing, but don’t release any other information. “I feel like this film is the very first film that attempts anything of this magnitude on the subject. It’s kind of historical in a way,” she said.

Marc D’Antonio

D’Antonio has a degree in astronomy and is the Mutual UFO Network’s (MUFON) chief photo/video analyst, host of SkyTour Radio on KGRA, and host and cre -

ator of the popular SkyTour LiveStream with Marc D’Antonio, a group of live deep sky observatories on YouTube, courtesy of the SkyTour LiveStream Remote Observatories and their research telescopes.

He has an extensive work history discussing and investigating extraterrestrial life in the film and television arena, appearing regularly on several networks and television series/shows.

Asked how he became interested in UFOs, D’Antonio said in a phone interview, “When I was young, I had been missing time when I went on a field trip. I basically disappeared during the whole day and had no idea what happened. And nobody remembered seeing me.

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director for New Mexico.

Asked what he will lecture about, he said, “I have two slide shows lined up. One is about my book on Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. He was railroaded losing his security clearance. He was present at the Aztec UFO crash retrieval, we know that, we have witnesses.”

Burleson, a retired college professor, taught mathematics for 50 years. He writes the column “Looking Up” in the Roswell Daily Record, about unidentified flying objects and unidentified aerial phenomena. He is the author of many books, both fiction and nonfiction.

Other speakers include:

Dennis Balthaser

Retired civil engineer Balthaser has researched the 1947 Roswell Incident primarily. He has also done

extensive research about underground bases, Area 51 and the pyramids of Giza in Egypt, which is the topic of this year’s presentation.

Bryan Bender

Bender is a senior national correspondent for Politico, where he focuses on the Pentagon, NASA and the defense and aerospace industries. He was previously a national security reporter where he covered U.S. military operations in the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Balkans. He is an adjunct professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University.

Thomas J. Carey

Carey is an Air Force veteran who held a TOP SECRET/CRYPTO clearance. He has been a Mutual UFO Network state section director for southeastern Pennsylvania from 1986 to 2001, a special investigator for the J. Allen Hynek Center

for UFO Studies from 1991 to 2001, and a member of its board of directors from 1997 to 2001. Carey began investigating aspects of the Roswell Incident in 1991 for the Roswell investigative team of Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt.

James Clarkson

Clarkson is an Investigator and a career criminal investigator and lifelong researcher of the UFO mystery. He is the author of “TELL MY STORY — June Crain, the Air Force & UFOs” as well as the “Westport UFO Crash Retrieval Event.” He remains involved in UFO research, specializing in cases where, because of the official position of the witnesses to strange events, identities must be kept secret.

Paul Davids

In 1985, Davids was production coordinator for the original “Transformers” animated TV episodes (79 of them) for Marvel Pro -

ductions and wrote some of the scripts, too. Lucasfilm chose him and his wife, Hollace, to co-author six “Star Wars” sequel books. Davids went on to produce 10 films, including “Roswell: The UFO Coverup” (1994). Davids wrote, produced and directed five TV films distributed worldwide by NBCUniversal.

Luis Elizondo

Elizondo is the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (ATTIP), the secretive Pentagon unit that studied UFOs. As a senior counterintelligence officer for the Department of Defense, he operated throughout Afghanistan, the Middle East and Latin America. He’s a trained special agent who has led countless tactical and strategic missions both during wartime and times of peace. Elizondo is the team’s lead field investigator, continuing in the civilian world the work he did inside the Pentagon’s AATIP program.

Larry Holcombe

Holcombe’s introduction to the world of ufology came in the late 1950s after reading Maj. Donald Keyhoe’s “Flying Saucers Are Real and Flying Saucers from Outer Space.” These books started a 50-plus year study and avocation into mainstream research on the subject. His writing, speaking efforts and interviews now center on bringing light to bear on the continued United States denial and cover-up of UFO issues.

Frank Kimbler

Kimbler is an associate professor of Earth science at the New Mexico Military Institute. His research has resulted in the discovery of numerous physical artifacts from the Roswell UFO debris field area. He has been a featured speaker at the UFO Congress and the UFO MegaCon. He is using sci-

ence to prove direct physical evidence of extraterrestrial visits to Earth.

Clyde Lewis

Clyde Lewis is a bizarre futurist talk show host who created Ground Zero Radio in 1995. He has been featured in UFO Magazine and Unknown Magazine and has appeared on “Sightings and Strange Universe.” His interests also include comic books and mythology.

David Marler

Marler actively investigated and researched the UFO subject for 32 years. He joined The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in 1990 and since then, he has served as field investigator, state section director, as well as Illinois State director. In November 2020, he became the recipient of the world’s single-largest historical collection of UFO case files in the world. Due to his role as curator for these files and his track record of credible historical research, he was offered the rare invitation of serving as a full board member with Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s Center for UFO Studies. Marler serves in the role as its official archivist.

Thom Reed

A retired entrepreneur, Reed is keeping his family’s encounter with a UFO in 1969 alive. His family’s Sept. 1, 1969 off-world incident became the first to be officially inducted into the U.S. as Historically True by historians and the office of the governor (Massachusetts) in 2015. In 2020, Reed told his family’s story in Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries: Berkshires UFO,” which chronicles UFO sightings in Massachusetts.

Alejandro Rojas

Rojas is a freelance journalist and currently works for a software company as an unidentified flying phenomenon researcher. As a UFO and paranormal research -

er and journalist, Rojas has spent many hours in the field investigating anomalous phenomena up close and personal. He can frequently be seen in interviews with major news outlets and television programs.

Robert Salas

Robert Salas is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. While on active duty he worked as a weapons controller, flew target drones, commanded inter-continental ballistic missiles as a launch officer, and worked as an Air Force missile propulsion engineer on the Titan III program and later worked on aircraft structures and on the Space Shuttle design proposals. In October 2021, he organized a press conference with three other ex-military witnesses on the connection between UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon) and nuclear weapons incidents. .

Yvonne Smith

Smith, a post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) specialist since the late 1980s, has a hypnotherapist certification from the accredited California Hypnosis Motivation Institute. During her work she observed that many of her subjects were describing alien abductions and other close encounter experiences, which inspired Smith to found Close Encounter Research Organization. Smith is one of few hypnotherapists internationally recognized in this unique field.

Travis Walton

In 1975, Walton was abducted for five days. In 1978, Walton wrote the book “The Walton Experience,” detailing his claims of an alien abduction, which became the basis for the 1993 film “Fire in the Sky.” He is an actor and assistant director.

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will have a separate area to show off their unique style and art. Also part of Galacticon are game inventors such as Daniel McKinley and local game master and inventor Matt Bromley. The public will be able to participate in the various table-top games including an escape room table-top game.

This year, Logan Pack is the featured artist for Galacticon. His unique painting style pays homage to superheroes and science fiction legends. Pack recently brought his talents in to create the cover and inside sketches for LeMay’s first fiction book, “The Noted Desperado Pancho Dumez — 1976.”

LeMay said, his non-fiction books about unusual and eerie historical events in the area became popular and sold, so it took him some time to finish it. “I probably finished the first draft when I was 22. And every few years after I go back and revise it and tweak it, make it better. It never felt right until this year,” LeMay said.

His friend Logan went through the book, which he said reminded him of the classic story “The Outsiders.” The art he created for LeMay reminds one of a theatrical movie poster in the authentic style of the painter.

Logan grew up on a farm southwest of Roswell. “I worked after high school, I worked at a video store, after that on the farm for about six years. I was always way too tired to draw anything. The drawings dipped off, unless I drew something on a sticky note when I was waiting to fill a tractor with seed,” he said and chuckled.

A fortunate event would change his life. His wife, he said, worked for a famous beauty school and college that were looking for an event poster designer. He applied and from then on, his art became the focus of his career. Three years later and he left the corporate world and went “full time convention.” Worried when the pandemic hit and he couldn’t go to conventions, Logan was surprised with a sudden influx of online orders. “It was pretty much fan art,” he said. “Which

is a ticking clock, if you are so big, you’re taking money from the big guys. So more and more, especially recently, I am hitching my wagon to other stuff that’s independent.” This includes LeMay’s book, which will be available at Galacticon.

Asked what the book is about, LeMay said it was a mystery thriller similar to the story of the TV show “Stranger Things,” in that it is told from the perspective of kids. “I used our real history as a jumping off point,” LeMay said. “In this case, I was just fascinated by the fact that Billy the Kid’s tombstone has been stolen twice. And so I just conglomerated that Billy the Kid faked his death because he found the lost Adams diggings — they hid the map in a compartment in his tombstone and that’s why it gets stolen.”

UFO Festival main events at the convention center

Galaxy Fair

There will be live music, a fire show, a light show, a beer garden, children’s entertainment, a circus camp, bounce house and Knockerball soccer, giant darts, The Foam Zone, rock painting, cowboy roping selfie station, astronaut camp, Mario Kart balloon grab, glow bicycle ride, a bike safety education event and much more throughout the weekend. There is no charge for the activities taking place in the parking lot or the Kids Zone inside the Convention Center.

A special fire and drone show will be the highlights on Friday at 8:30 p.m.

Tours

On all three days of the festival a bus leaves from the convention center for a tour of the most famous little newspaper in the world: The Roswell Daily Record (RDR), the newspaper that featured the famous headline on July 8, 1947: “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region.”

Next stop is the Roswell Community Little Theatre where the events of 1947 come to life in a play performed by thespians Randy Nolan, Dan Tisdale, Louise Montague, Jes-

sica Melendez, Viridiana Leon and Tonya Dickman. Theater board member Dan Coleman said the play was written by the publisher of the RDR, Barbara Beck. “It has been taken from history and newspaper articles from back when it happened,” he said.

According to Beck, the play revolves around four people in Roswell in 1947. One is the editor/manager of the RDR, another works at the Roswell Morning Dispatch and his second job is at Ballard’s Funeral Home. Then there is a civil engineer at the Roswell Army Airbase and a city employee. Meeting during a poker game, those four are wondering what happened outside of Roswell with the “flying saucer.” A decision is made to head out to the crash site and from here the plot thickens.

After the play, the next stop is Walker Aviation Museum where the true stories of the men and women working at the base are kept. One of the displays, “Peace Through Strength,” features materials, memorabilia and a timeline for the Roswell Army Airfield/ Walker Air Force Base from Dec. 1, 1945 through Nov. 23, 1955.

Music

On Saturday at 5 p.m., DeBremond Field is the place to be for the festival’s main concert featuring the band Midland.

Rooted in tradition in both sound and style, Midland’s critically-acclaimed album “Let It Roll” earned the No. 1 position on Billboard’s Top Country Album sales chart upon release. Their two-times platinum-certified chart-topping debut “Drinkin’ Problem,” which offers an intentional nod to country music reminiscent of the 1970s and ’80s, earned the band their first Grammy Award nominations for Best Country Song and Best Country Duo/Group Performance. Midland was also named New Vocal Group of the Year at the 2018 American Country Music Awards and was nominated for Vocal Group of the Year at the 2020 CMA Awards.

Also performing is Lubbock, Texas-based country singer and songwriter William Clark Green. Green was honored with New Male Vocalist of the Year by the Texas Regional Radio Report Awards in 2012. He is considered a “honky-tonk machine” walking the line between hard-partying drinking tunes and tender love songs. His breakthrough album “Rose Queen” was released in 2013, which yielded a No. 1 regional hit with the song “She Likes the Beatles” and three top 10 singles on the Texas country charts. With five successful albums under his belt, Green said in a phone interview that his songs are usually about towns and locations in Texas. For the festival concert he is bringing songs from his new album “Baker Hotel.” “Baker Hotel is in a town west of Mineral Wells and is according to lore haunted.

He is looking forward to returning to Ros-

well, Green said. “I’m looking forward getting some good New Mexican food and looking forward to all. It’s going to be fun.”

Laci Kaye Booth is a newcomer in Nashville, having arrived right when the pandemic hit. Her 8-track self-titled debut collection was released in August 2021 via BMLG Records. With her deeply personal and heartfelt lyrics, Booth’s debut collection shows all the facets of herself as she blends her raw and velvet-like sound with the echoes of her country influences. The Texas native has already made a name for herself and grown a dedicated fanbase as a season favorite competing on Season 17 of American Idol in 2019 and placing in the Top 5.

Booth said in a phone interview that she grew up with country music. “I always listened to country music, my mom listened to country music and my dad is a Texas country artist, so it’s just country in my house. Then I discovered around age 11 Stevie Nix and Norah Jones, they had such a big influence on what I am doing now.”

“When I moved to Nashville, when the pandemic hit, I started co-writing. I took that time to experiment what songs I’d really liked. If you look at what I released last year, it’s very well-rounded. I thought there was something for everybody. I was experimenting with my sound,” Booth said.

Indeed, that “sound” is becoming its own style, dream country, which is unique in the country music genre.

Roswell Museum and Robert H. Goddard Planetarium

The Roswell Museum and Robert H. Goddard Planetarium will join the UFO Festival with their summer exhibition “Future Shock (Re)Visions of Tomorrow,” laser shows at the planetarium, retro film showings, the “Future Shock Happy Hour and Film Screening,” a performance by artist Nicole Banowetz and a space-inspired string quartet concert. Entering the museum area, onlookers will encounter the “Yarn Bomb” installation by the Pecos Valley Fiber Guild. It is a fluctuating piece with growing potential.

The planetarium’s 40-foot dome will burst with colors in a combination of legendary music and laser-light visuals. New this year are the showings of two retro movies on Friday and Saturday.

The ticketed museum-style happy hour events take place on Friday at 5 p.m. and include artist Nicole Banowetz, who will stop by for a brief performance. Banowetz is a Denver-based artist who is known for creating giant inflatable sculpture of microscopic creatures. Her work has been shown internationally in shows in the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Taiwan and Poland, and appears frequently at festivals around the world.

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couldn’t find anything wrong with me. That day was a mystery. I had no idea what happened. I decided at age 9 that I was going to be an astronomer. I did, I followed through, I never wavered.”

Asked about what subjects he will be covering, D’Antonio said, “I’m going to talk about ways in which an alien species could get here from afar. As an astronomer, that’s why I went to school for. I look at the different possibilities that exist in the physics world.

“I also wrote a book that is called ‘The Populated Universe’ and it is a book that is available all over. I am going to bring a whole bunch with me. The whole purpose of this book is to point out my belief that the universe is a big place and life in the universe may be the rule, not the exception. It is based on findings from the Earth itself, findings from what we see in space, potential findings from the Kepler Space telescope … and of course, soon the James Webb Space Telescope, potentially finding a habitable world out there. That would be what would break everything wide open, finding another possible Earth out there,” D’Antonio said.

Ben Hansen

Apart from filming TV shows and documentaries, Hansen often provides analysis for photos and videos for the Huffington Post Weird News column and updates on celebrity interest in UFOs on shows like “Entertainment Tonight” and “Access Hollywood.” Breaking down captured media of alleged Bigfoot, UFO and ghost events, Hansen provides his expert opinion on some of the most viral stories in the current press. He presents his research and findings at dozens of conferences across the globe.

In a phone interview Han-

in the creation of a new task force and procedures to get UFO reports. I think a lot of people don’t know what it all means. We are kind of guessing as to what it means. But I want to give the people a walk-through and summarize what we’ve seen already and what we can expect and predict might happen in the next couple of years. I also have been filming the second season of my TV show ‘UFO Witness’ on Discovery+. I’ve been able to investigate some really historic cases and some really strange cases. I will be sharing some of those behind the scenes (cases) with people.”

is the U.K.’s equivalent of the Department of Defense. And I had several different postings in my 21 year career there, but for much of the early ’90s I ran their UFO program. So my job was to research and investigate the same things, the phenomenon more generally, to assess the defense and national security implications.”

sen said that he was fascinated with the idea of aliens ever since he saw the movie “E.T.” as a kid. “I would take newspaper clippings of any UFO sighting I could find and I saved them in a book. So when I got older, I never really thought I would be somebody speaking at UFO conventions and making UFO shows — it was really a unique opportunity that I had, to continue doing something I was interested in as a child.”

In his work Hansen has been observing an interesting phenomenon in people witnessing UFO encounters.

“A lot of people are afraid of what they don’t understand and so the brain goes into overdrive to explain things away, and sometimes it gets really ridiculous on what people come up with to explain away strange events. That’s a real problem because the beliefs that people have, sometimes people are not willing to question their beliefs and the UFO reality — as we start to learn more about it — might be a problem for some people,” he said.

Asked what he will cover during the festival, Hansen said, “I like to talk about the recent developments in the last couple of years. We’ve seen an unprecedented amount of media coverage and government involvement

Nick Pope Author, journalist and TV personality Pope ran the British government’s UFO program. He’s recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on UFOs and the unexplained. Pope has consulted on numerous alienthemed movies, TV shows and video games and appears regularly on TV news programs, and on popular shows like “Ancient Aliens” and “The Basement Office.”

Pope said that the way the British government deals with the subject of UFOs is very different from the U.S. government. “The British government has completed a program to declassify and release most of their UFO files,” he said in a phone interview. “Including, of course, many ones that I wrote. So that meant that I was much more free to discuss that and in fact, they even asked me — I took early retirement — but they asked me to come back and help them promote the release of the UFO files, so I have the support of the British government in my efforts to raise awareness about this subject and show how much the British government has released already.”

Asked about his career, Pope said, “I was a civilian employee of the British Ministry of Defense, which

Asked if he has a theory on why the U.S. government is recently admitting that they have hundreds of cases of flying craft or aerial phenomena, Pope said, “I think the situation has escalated in recent years. There have been more and more incidents where these things have been seen and encountered by military pilots, and we just have better evidence than we have anytime before. For example, many of these military UFO encounters have been tracked on radar and we also have very good quality photographs and videos which the Pentagon has now confirmed are genuine, and we now have the U.S. Congress taking a close interest in this. So the intelligence committees have been investigating this, the armed services, committees in both the Senate and the House, I think that political pressure has opened things up. And yeah, this subject has come out of the fringe and into the mainstream in the last few years.”

Melissa Tittl

For more than a decade, Tittl has been developing and producing motion pictures and television. Her particular expertise is to create narrative stories around non-fiction subjects. Truth is stranger than fiction.

Tittl is considered an investigative journalist in ancient civilizations, sci-fi and the science fields but she also produces transformation content with some of the biggest names in these genres. She has produced and written TV shows for several major networks. A few examples

of shows she has written and produced are “Chelsea Does,” “Escaping the Prophet,” “Ancient Aliens,” “The Universe” and “Hangar One.” She recently started her own production company called Hathor Studios. The first film, “Black Knight Satellite — Beyond the Signal,” was released June 5.

In a phone interview Tittl said that she has always been interested in documentaries and was able to become an intern at NBC. “It (documentaries) was something I was completely interested in and discovering something on this planet that was already here, because that could help us understand where we are today as a human species. That’s how I started. Then my internship at NBC turned into a job as an editor, but I didn’t like that. Then I ended up moving to LA and just worked my way up from production assistant emptying garbage to producing big shows.

“I had worked for the History Channel on a series that was called ‘The Universe,’ which was a collaboration between NASA and the History Channel. This was back in 2007, and still today, mainstream is trying to explain quantum physics. This is a time where there was nothing like that on TV at all. This was the first attempt to take really complicated astrophysics and stuff astronomers know and make it into something that anybody can understand ... .

“Then I produced the first

five seasons of “Ancient Aliens.” In my opinion, that show was groundbreaking as well, because there wasn’t really anything like that on TV anywhere. There wasn’t anything where people could go and talk about this idea there could be ancient evidence of aliens coming here, way before Roswell. And if that’s the case, what’s going on here? And so that was a learning experience for me. It wasn’t like I was searching to cover aliens. In fact, some of these days I can’t believe this is my job,” Tittl said. Asked what she will cover at the Roswell Incident event, Tittl said, “I really think that talking about it from a journalist’s standpoint hasn’t been in the media for a really long time and really discussing why things get muddled. Mainstream takes a different angle, right? That’s my wheelhouse and I’ve been in it for a while to observe it. The discernment on what gets put out there and why, I think is a good case. Because people are really interested in what’s happening with the idea of aliens and visitations. What part is true and what part is an agenda?”

Tittl said that she is looking forward to returning to Roswell. The last time she visited was with her TV crew to film an episode of “Ancient Aliens” in 2008.

For more information, visit roswellincident.com.

Submitted Photo TV personality Ben Hansen is attending the Roswell Daily Record’s Roswell Incident.

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Author and journalist Nick Pope ran the British government’s UFO program. His lecture will cover various UFO-related subjects.