UFO Museum UFOlogist Invasion

speakers 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 making, 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.” 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. 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

Submitted Photo Kathleen Marden’s lecture this year will feature revealing new developments in the abduction case of Betty and Barney Hill.

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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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