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Thursday, July 2, 2015 Volume 20, Issue 13 Publisher: Charles Fischer Editor: Christina Stock Ad Design: Sandra Martinez, Steve Stone Columnists: Donald Burleson Photographer: Juliana Halvorson Get in touch with us online Facebook: PecosVisionMagazine Twitter: twitter.com/PecosVision Pinterest: pinterest.com/VisionMagazine Email: vision@rdrnews.com www: rdrnews.com/wordpress/vision-magazin For advertising information, call 622-7710 Correspondence: Vision Magazine welcomes correspondence, constructive criticism and suggestions for future topics. Mail correspondence to Vision Magazine, P.O. Drawer 1897, Roswell, N.M. 88202-1897 or vision@rdrnews.com Submissions: Call 622-7710, ext. 309, for writers’ guidelines.

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By Christina Stock Vision Editor his year locals and visitors have many events to choose from.

While downtown Roswell and the mall is hustling and bustling with the UFO Festival and the Filmfest and Cosmicon, on July 3 the public is invited to the Liberty at 312 N. Virginia Avenue for a free patriotic event. The large screen video presentation, “The American Experiment,” will be shown at 5 p.m. and another showing at 7. The event is sponsored by local businesses and individuals who want to add an inspiring and patriotic offering to Roswell’s unique July 4 weekend festivities. The film is a very engaging overview of America’s founding fathers, historical events and present-day America. According to one of the event organizers, Mary Marley, “Adding this very special event to our Independence Day celebrations helps us come together to reflect on our American roots and be inspired about the present and future of this great country.”

She adds, “And, there will be cool water, comfortable seating and air conditioning in a great venue, The Liberty.” For more information, visit their Facebook page “Reflecting On Our Roots.”

On July 4 the Roswell Elks Lodge No. 969 invites all Roswell Citizens and guests to meet Roswell’s

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veterans for their annual veterans appreciation barbecue, set to take place from 2-6 p.m. at the lodge.

It is free for the first 700 guests. This year will be the 13th year of this popular event and the Elks Lodge is expecting a great turnout. John Wilson, who won first place in the Elks Barbecue Contest in April, is providing the barbecue.Eighteen volunteers of the Elks and Sertoma Club are going to assist him. This year there will be ice cream for dessert. The Roswell Elks Lodge is located at 1720 N. Montana Ave. For more information call 575-6221560.

The City of Roswell, Parks and Recreation Department kicks off the 4th of July festivity this year with concerts at the Noon Optimist Park, 1600 N. Montana Ave. at corner College Boulevard, starting at 5:30 p.m. and ending with fireworks. The Noon Optimist Park is just north of Cielo Grande Recreation Complex. The organizers are asking the public to come early for parking.

The Chaves County Community Youth Band performs at 5:30 p.m., followed by Robin Scott at 6:30 and The Last Child Band at 8. There will be something for everybody from tejano, funk, blues and rock.

At 9:15 p.m. the Sertoma Mike Satterfield Memorial Fireworks will start at the Noon Optimist Park. “The biggest fireworks display I have seen in a long time — some big cities do not have a fireworks display as Roswell does.” This and similar expressions are often heard during Roswell’s Fourth of July celebrations.

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The international UFO Festival, Alien Costume Contest, Filmfestival and Cosmicon has some “steam”

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his year is a perfect constellation of events circling in and around the most famous little city in the universe, “Roswell.” More then a name, it is a legend and it all began with a crash in 1947. Was it an alien craft? An experiment of the Air Force gone terribly wrong? The truth is out there, but if the truth is recognizable after so many reports is another question.

This year’s UFO Festival brings again visitors from around the world to Roswell to enjoy new findings, join the panels of experts and scientists, even eyewitnesses. Throughout July 2-5 programs are offered at the International UFO Museum and Research Center and the Roswell Convention & Civic Center for those who want to know more.

The Roswell UFO Festival is also for families and

children with live music at the courthouse on North Main Street; lots of vendors, Obediah, the Stilt Walker, who will be entertaining the crowd at the International UFO Museum and Research Center.

The Roswell Museum and Art Center is having its annual Pet and Human Alien Costume contest on Saturday, July 4 in the morning for the pets. Registration deadline is at 9 a.m. and the contest starts at 10 a.m. outdoors on the Plaza at the north side of the Roswell Convention and Civic Center. Many volunteers will help with the slithering, two, three or four-legged little “aliens” and their creative owners. The top three alien pets receive trophies and the Best Alien Pet 2015 will receive $50.

In the afternoon, it is time for the humans to show their alien side. Registration ends at the Roswell Museum and Art Center at 1 p.m., the organizers highly recommend to register early, the entry-form is available to download at the ufofestivalroswell. com page or at the Roswell Museum and Art Center at 100 W. 11th St. The official Human Alien Costume Contest takes place at the Roswell Convention and Civic Center indoors at 3 p.m. There are two age divisions: Child (tot-16 years) and adult. Creative categories for each age division include: Most Creative, TV/ Movie Personalities and Scariest.

First place winners in each age division and creative category receive $50 and a trophy. Second place winners receive a trophy. First place contestants vie for the Best Alien Award of $250.

Every year the Alien Costume Contest grows and the competition gets tougher. With this world-re-

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nowned event, the audience is guaranteed a great time. All ages and costumes are invited to enter free of charge.

This is not only a costume contest, it is a full-out stage performance. Because it’s more than just posing on stage: it’s about acting too. Participants portray and perform in character and woo the crowd and the judges to win the Best Alien Title and Award of 2015.

Spectators are invited and there will be plenty opportunity for photos with all aliens.

Visitors to the festival are reminded to pick up their UFO Festival “Passport” and fill it with stamps from the participating businesses for a bag full of goodies. There will be also an information tent and a children’s art tent in front of the Chaves County Courthouse. The Austin Bike Zoo will be fluttering through the crowd with its large and colorful Butterfly bikes. First time will be the multi-rider “Preying Mantis.” Adding to the UFO Festival experience this year is the Filmfestival and Cosmicon, which are returning to the Roswell mall and to Galaxy 8 movie theater.

The highlight on Friday, July 3, in the evening is the UFO Festival Light Parade. It is one of the favorite events of the UFO Festival. Roswell’s summer evenings are mild and families, visitors and participants can enjoy the creative floats full of aliens and spaceships.

The parade begins at 9 p.m. and runs south on Main Street from Seventh Street to Third Street. see Events on page 9

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Continued from Page 8 The main events take place downtown Main Street for the UFO Festival at the UFO Museum and in the Roswell Convention and Civic Center, the Alien Pet and Human Costume Contest at the Roswell Convention and Civic Center and up north at the Roswell Mall for the Science Fiction Filmfestival and Cosmicon. Cosmicon is a wordplay of Comicon, with plenty of opportunities for cosplay, where participants can slip into the role of their favorite comic, movie hero or villain.

This time the Cosmicon emphasis is on “Steampunk.” The romantic world of Steampunk is all about the Victorian Age. If the computer revolution would have happened then, Jules Vernes’ books and stories may have not been put into the “fiction” category. “Steampunk” is one of the trending subgenres, popular with the young and old. The local Steampunk Society is expecting many participants from all over the U.S. and a big group from California. Curious to learn more about it? This is the time.

There will be several panels and creative interactive workshops at the Roswell mall.

The Science Fiction Filmfestival has two parts that grew out of the fact that more and more movies were produced and made in New Mexico. First there are the international and national movies of indie filmmakers that have been sent in to be watched, judged and awarded. In addition, a local film-shoot takes place in Roswell the week before the awards. Those movies have to be created,

filmed and edited all within a week — a challenge for even the most experienced director and movie crew. The entire city of Roswell participates in this, either by providing offices, props, or by acting themselves. Roswell got the “theater bug,” and everybody can watch the finished short films and indie films at Galaxy 8 movie theater at the mall before the Red Carpet Event and Awards ceremony. The organizers advise to get the tickets for the Roswell Filmfest and Cosmicon early. Included in the ticket is an all access pass to the three day film conference and Cosmicon event including workshops, set-production. Kids 10 and under get in free. Tickets and more information is available at roswellfilmcon.com.

But what would be a Festival — or two — without stars? If you are a fan of the History Channel, the name Stanton Friedman is forever connected with government secrets and the famous hidden files about aliens and UFOs. His fans are looking forward meeting him and listening to his lectures during this years UFO festival. The big names for the Filmfest and Cosmicon are writer Donald F. Glut and actor Tommy “Tiny” Lister. Lister played the first Klingon to have ever encountered the human race in the Star Trek TV show of 2001. He also played the president in the blockbuster movie “Fifth Element” opposite Bruce Willis, with Adam Sandler in “Little Nikki,” and with Mike Meyers in “Austin Powers Goldmember” and “The Dark Knight,” to name a few.

Glut is best known for his novelization of the movie “The Empire Strikes Back,” the nation’s No.

1 bestseller for almost two months, which to date (still in print) has sold over 3.5 million copies.

And speaking of Star Wars… the 501st Legion is coming to town! The 501st Legion is a worldwide Star Wars costuming organization comprised of and operated by Star Wars fans. While it is not sponsored by Lucasfilm Ltd., it is Lucasfilm’s preferred Imperial costuming group. Locals and visitors will have plenty opportunities for pictures and “selfies.”

Roswell is also the “Cradle of Space Exploration.”

Without Robert H. Goddard’s rocket experiments, there would have been no flights to the moon. The local planetarium is named after this fascinating scientist who lived and worked here.

This year, visitors can take a trip into the universe at the planetarium. The Roswell Museum and Art Center is offering exciting celestial programs in the Robert H. Goddard Planetarium on July 4. Museum Board Member and former New Mexico Military Institute administrator Bill Siders will have two special programs throughout the day in the planetarium from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The first program is titled “Our neighborhood, the solar system” in which he will have a brief look at the night sky as seen from Roswell in early July, noting some basic constellations and navigation aids. Then, early models for the night sky will be examined as well as basic observations from over 1,000 years, building humans’ knowledge of the solar system.

Secondly, the planetarium will feature “The Age of Aquarius.” For thousands of years man has see Events on page 10

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Continued from Page 9 observed the night sky weaving myths and star patterns into a pantheon of characters visible in the night sky. Greeks and other observers noted motions of the “fixed” stars over long periods of time. In antiquity, as each constellation of the zodiac moved through the vernal equinox, a new “age” of approximately 2,000 years was said to occur — the age of Taurus during the bronze age, Aries during the rise of Greece and Rome and the Pisces during the Christian era. We are now entering the Age of Aquarius. Who knows what this age will bring?

All workshops, lectures and events are listed in our festival calendar, and there is also a map. Tip: if you do not know where you are, take a look at our “skyscraper” downtown - the one on Main Street is next to Peppers Grill and Bar. It is very visible so visitors can’t get lost.

The Roswell Daily Record on 2301 N. Main St., from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. is going to be open on Thursday, July 2 for customers and visitors, in case you would like to take a picture or purchase a copy of the original newspaper of 1947 that covered the UFO incident. On Friday and Saturday you find the Roswell Daily Record booth up north at the Roswell Mall, where you actually can be in “the 1947 paper.”

There might be changes due to weather or unknown circumstances, so be sure to check the official webpages at roswellfilmcon.com for the Filmfestival and Cosmican and the ufofestivalroswell.com about updates for the UFO Festival.

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Sports 21. Alien Chase Run with the aliens

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Christina Stock Photo Lord and Lady Epitaph with the alien Roz in the middle.

t is that time of year again, when runners from all over the world and some out-of-the-world athletes of all sizes and ages come to Roswell for the annual Alien Chase organized and presented by the Roswell Runners Club, International UFO Museum & Research Center and the Roswell Recreation Department.

New this year is the start and finish location. It is going to be at the Roswell Convention and Civic Center, 912 N. Main St., on July 4.

Participants packets may be picked up at the Convention and Civic Center, Friday, July 3, between the hours of 4-6 p.m. Early registration can be made online at active.com.

Race day registration and race day packet pick-up will be from 6-6:30 a.m. at the Convention and Civic Center. The races begin at 7 a.m.

Entree fee is $20 if received before July 3; late registration is $25. Club members and organizations of 10 or more are eligible for a $1 discount off of their entry.

This year, the Alien Chase is set to benefit the Roswell Humane Society again, said Bob Edwards of the Runners Club. “Last year we could give them $10,000.” Edwards said. “We are looking forward to another successful year helping the animals.”

“When we started in 1995 in the advent of the first UFO festival, we matched the largest race in town with 200 participants and the following year we topped them with 270 participants,” Edward said. “In 1997 at the 50th anniversary of the alleged UFO incident, we had the biggest turnout with 672 participants.

Everybody wanted to be part of it, everybody cared.

“The last years our race has been between 565 and 627 participants,” Edwards said. “The people come back every year from Texas, New York, California, Arizona, Colorado, Washington, Missouri, Florida, Illinois, Michigan and last year we even had a big group from Norway and Belgium.” This makes the run one of the biggest in southeast New Mexico.

“We always get also new participants, visiting for the UFO Festival,” Edwards said. “It is fun for everybody.”

The races are for beginners and pros. There is a 5K walk, 5K run, 10K walk and 10K run. The 10K will take the participants to Enchanted Hills — northwest Roswell — and back.

“There will be signs, so do not use bread crumbs or nuts to mark your way”, Edwards jokingly said, “Our squirrels will get them.” see

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Continued from Page 10 The award ceremony will begin when all runners and walkers have finished.

This is a race with many awards given to male and female finishers in nine age categories from 10 and under to 70 and over. “And”, Edwards said, “you never know who will run with you.” The colorful event stands out thanks to the colorful shirts that every participant receives. This year it is a very colorful retro-style. The run also attracts creative runners who dress up in costumes fitting to the UFO/alien theme. The best-costumed athlete will receive an award.

There will also be post race drawings for door prizes donated by local merchants.

For additional information check active.com or call the Roswell Recreation Department at 575-6246720.

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By Reynaldo R. Martinez There’s always that guy. I have been volunteering at the New Mexico Senior Olympics track meet for several years. I am there to help with medical emergencies. Thankfully, the only things I have had to dispense over the years are ice packs for muscle strain and bandages for road rash. When I first started doing this, I used to watch all the races so that I could rapidly respond if someone was in trouble. The last few years I have barely noticed any of the preliminary races because truthfully, watching 50- to 90-year-old people run is not very exciting, especially if you do not know any of them. Instead, I occupy my time reading or catching up on my social media. I am made aware of an injury by the type of crowd noise. There is a distinct sound a sports crowd makes when someone gets hurt and that is when I look up and respond. Now, the sprints are a completely different situation. When the 200, 100 and 50 meter events come up, I stand and pay attention. I know that particular guy will run and there will be a collective jaw drop from the crowd.

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20th UFO Festival featured Speakers

The Roswell UFO Festival features many of the top names in UFO and Alien research

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etails about the speakers lectures, workshops and panels are listed in our event calendar.

THOMAS J. CAREY Thomas J. Carey, a

native Philadelphian, holds degrees from Temple University (B.S. in Business Administration) and California State University, Sacramento (M.A. in Anthropology), and also attended the Uni-

versity of Toronto’s Ph.D. program in Anthropology. An Air Force veteran who held a TOP SECRET/ CRYPTO clearance, Carey is now a retired Philadelphia area businessman. He has been a Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) State Section Director for Southeastern Pennsylvania from 1986 to 2001, a Special Investigator for the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) from 1991 to 2001, and a member of the CUFOS 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, and since 1998 has teamed exclusively with Don Schmitt to continue a proactive investigation of the case. Carey has authored or coauthored more than 40 articles about the Roswell events of 1947, and has contributed to a number of books on

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the subject as well. He has appeared as a guest on many radio and TV shows throughout the country, including Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell and George Noory, Fox and Friends, Comcast Network Friends and Larry King Live; and has contributed to a number of Roswell-related documentaries, on-screen and behind the scenes. A recent book about the secret history of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio titled “Inside the Real Area 51,” also co-authored with Don Schmitt and released in the fall of 2013, reached No. 1 on Amazon’s “Astronomy & Space Science” category and was also in its “Top 100 Books of the Year” in that category for 2013. Another book about Roswell, “The Children of Roswell,” is in preparation for a mid2015 release, and a final Roswell book, “Roswell: the Verdict of History,”

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is due for a late 2015 or early 2016 release. Tom and his wife Doreen have two grown children and reside in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania.

STANTON T. FRIEDMAN Stanton T. Friedman, Nucle ar ph ysicist-au thor-lecturer Stanton T. Friedman received his BSc. and MSc. degrees in physics from the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. He was employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist by such companies as GE, GM, Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory, TRW Systems, Aerojet General Nucleonics, and McDonnell-Douglas Astronautics working in such highly advanced, classified and eventually cancelled programs as nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets and various compact nuclear power-plants for space and terrestrial applications.

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by UFO Magazine of the UK. He is co-author with Kathleen Marden (Betty Hill’s niece) of a book in 2007: “Captured!

The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience.”

The City of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, declared August 27, 2007, Stanton Friedman Day. His book “Flying Saucers and Science” was published in June, 2008, and is in its fourth printing. His newest book “Science Was Wrong: Startling Truths about Cures, Theories, and Inventions ‘They’ Declared Impossible” with Kathleen Marden, was published in June, 2010. On July 2, 2010, he was inducted into the Roswell, New Mexico, UFO Hall of Fame for his long term investigative efforts on that important case.

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He has provided written testimony to Congressional Hearings, appeared twice at the UN, and been a pioneer

in many aspects of ufology including Roswell, Majestic 12, The Betty Hill-Marjorie Fish star map work, analysis of the Delphos, Kansas, physical trace case, crashed saucers, flying saucer technology, and challenges to the S.E.T.I. (Silly Effort To Investigate) cultists. He has spoken at more MUFON Symposia than anyone else.

PATTY GREER Patty Greer is one of the most devoted Crop Circle film maker/ researchers today. She produced six documentary films in record time that received 6 prestigious awards. With no experience in film making or UFOlogy whatsoever she became a “Contactee Experiencer” in a 2007 UK Crop Circle.

Everything in her life changed drastically that day, and she has since become a voice for the “Circlemakers.”

Greer has visited more than 100 English Crop Circles personally and been enthralled with the phenomenon since 2006, returning in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2014. Surely one of the greatest wonders of the world, Crop Circles have mystified everyone!

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coded messages about human evolution. Greer moved swiftly onto the UFO speaking circuit and received a standing ovation at the 2014 International UFO Congress Convention for her presentation on Crop Circles that featured more than 300 photos in 75 minutes. As Greer shares her vast library of Crop Circle images spanning the past 30 years, very few questions are left unanswered. Taking the study into a new realm of possibilities, Greer exposes daunting clips from her films as evidence that plasma vortices and ET Balls of Light are involved in the creation of many Crop Circles. Communications are coming from parallel realities using a language we all understand: Art and Math.

PBS affiliate CPT12 TV screened Greer’s last 2 new movies more than 25 times last year. Films include: “Crop Circle Update - The Wake Up Call” and her newest movie, “The SHIFT Has Hit The Fan.” What great exposure for disclosure!

Her passion is unrelenting and her presentations offer deep insight into the Crop Circles and their messages for humanity.

Greer says, “If you’re a believer be prepared to be captivated. If you’re

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LARRY HOLCOMBE Larry Holcombe’s introduction into the world of Ufology came in the late 1950’s after reading two of Major Donald Keyhoe’s books: Flying Saucers are Real and Flying Saucers from Outer Space. A year later, after watching Keyhoe debate an Air Force officer on the old Armstrong Circle Theater, and seeing Keyhoe being censored when he deviated from the prepared script the Air Force forced on the show’s producers, Holcombe was convinced the Air Force was covering up knowledge of UFO’s.

Those events started a fifty plus year avocation into the study and research of the UFO phenomenon. In 2006 he took early retirement and started his first novel, “The Great River Disclosure,” a thriller based on the government cover-up of an extraterrestrial presence visiting earth was released in 2009. His second novel in the Disclosure Trilogy, “Satan’s Angel,” was released in 2013 in eBook format.

In researching background for the novels he became intrigued by a 1970s NBC-TV documentary, UFO’s: Past, Present & Future. The docu-

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mentary endorsed the theory that some UFO’s were extraterrestrial and astonishingly the documentary seemed to have the support of the government. Larry was able to locate the writer/ co-producer of the documentary, Bob Emenegger, and Emenegger provided him with some remarkable background

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phenomenon. A detailed book proposal was developed and, in the fall of 2012, St. Martin’s Press purchased “The Presidents and UFOs: A Secret History from FDR to Obama.”

Noted nuclear physicist a n d l e c t u r e r , S t a nton T. Friedman, wrote the books foreword. Other noted UFOlogists contributed to the book.

Holcombe has spoken to a number of UFO research groups and state MUFON chapters.

He has had a number of radio and other media interviews including “The Paracast,” “Fringe Radio Show,” “Fox Radio” and “Open Minds UFO Radio.”

KEN HUDNALL Ken Hudnall is a former military officer.

He was an instructor in urban warfare at the United States Army Infantry School and has spent the last thirty years researching various aspects of the UFO mystery as well as the paranormal in general. Host of his own internet radio talk show out of El Paso for over 20 years, he has written over 60 books on topics ranging from ghosts, lost treasures, UFOs and conspiracies, including the award wining Manhattan Conspiracy series. His newest book “Sensual Alien Encounters” has been published in April 2015.

FRANK KIMBLER Frank Kimbler is an Assistant Professor of the Earth Science at the New Mexico Military Institute and a xenoarchaeologist (a scientist who hunts alien artifacts, or at least tries to). He has worked as a professional geologist for almost 30 years and has taught school for almost half of that time. He has worked as an oceanographer for the National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration and as a mining engineer for the State of Arizona. He moved to New Mexico in 2009 after accepting a teaching position at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. Shortly after moving to Roswell, he took a keen interest in the story behind the Roswell UFO incident.

His research has resulted in the discovery of a number of physical artifacts from the Roswell UFO debris field area including metallic fragments, bakelite plastic like material, military buttons and a 50-caliber bullet (which could be WW2 era). His research has been featured on several National Geographic TV programs, the History Channel, and numerous Internet talk shows about UFO’s. He does not like secrets and is dedicated to discovering answers and using good science to prove that we are not alone in the universe.

Kimbler brings credibility to the science of ufology by using remote sensing, sophisticated radiation detecting equipment, and electronic metal detectors to search for artifacts.

Given the opportunity he would welcome the idea of having a S.W.A.T. team of good researchers to investigate the global UFO phenomena and the hunt for alien artifacts.

TOM KIRKBRIDE Tom Kirkbride grew up in Southern California, where he was a lifeguard on the beaches of LaJolla…thus his Gamadin saga begins.

His five-book series is a thrill-packed, character driven adventure about a couple surfers saving the Galaxy. In 2012 his entire series was selected for the Renaissance Accelerated Reader program for schools nationwide.

This is the sixth year in a row Kirkbride has had the honor to speak at

Roswell UFO Festival. He also talks about writing to classrooms, writers groups, and book clubs all over the country.

DENICE MARCEL Denice Marcel recently accepted the role of State Section Director MUFON Los Angeles. She welcomed the position knowing this could help bring awareness and education to the public about UFO’s and to help expose the blanket of secrecy our government imposed days after the “The Roswell Incident” occurred.

Marcel, the granddaughter of U.S. Army Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jesse Marcel Sr., learned at a very young age of her grandfather’s participation in the recovery of a UFO wreckage outside Roswell, New Mexico in July of 1947. It was also at this time Denice learned her grandfather brought home some of the material that he collected to show her grandmother, Viaud and her father, Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., Col. USA (Ret.) Late in the night, the three of them examined the debris on their kitchen floor. It was Jesse Marcel Jr., then an 11-yearold-boy, who would discover what he described as an I-beam with indecipherable writing. When Jesse Marcel Sr. was later asked of the strange materials they saw he would describe it as, “It was not of this earth”.

These words would forever change Roswell history.

The events of that evening resulted in her father’s undertaking to make certain that his participation in the Roswell Incident be shared with everyone who wanted to know the truth. As he would often say “I know what I saw!” This would lead to many discussions about Roswell, UFOs, alien life, cover-ups and a quest for the truth.

Even though Marcel

didn’t practice hypnotherapy, she did receive her hypnotherapist certification from the California Hypnosis Motivation Institute, the only such accredited institution in the United States. In January of 1997 she accompanied her father and Kent Jeffries for a hypnosis session that Dr. Neil Hibler would conduct on her father over the course of three days.

Dr. Hibler was one of the world’s leading experts who used hypnotic regressions for forensic purposes.

The Roswell incident has offered Marcel many interesting experiences.

Aside from the hypnosis sessions, she accompanied Don Schmitt and Tom Carey on an investigation to General Exxon’s retirement home for an interview, has done radio interviews alongside her father and participated in lectures on the subject. She even had

a small role in the 1994 movie “Roswell.” She also sat with her father as a witness in the 2013 Citizen hearings on Disclosure, speaking on the The Roswell Report. Her most memorable moment, however, was to have had the chance to share with her father his final visit to the debris field, the kitchen of his childhood home from where he first saw the strange material and his final lecture at the Roswell Festival 2013.

The oral tradition has now been passed down to his children who will also ensure that the Roswell Incident goes down in history as one of the most memorable events to have happened in UFO history.

She currently has a new book in the works based on her grandfather and her family’s experiences.

JESSE MARCEL III Jesse Marcel is a freelance writer, author, and

film producer. He was born in Southern California to a modest military family, eventually growing up in the Rocky Mountains of Western Montana. He attended local universities and obtained degrees in finance and economics, along with credits in advanced mathematics and aerospace engineering.

As a child, his hobbies ranged from snow skiing and camping out in the front yard to the not-sowell-thought-out mission, to create rocket fuel; a combination of zinc and sulfur that, when mixed in just the right proportions, would singe a few eyebrows and almost burn down a garage.

Evenings were spent looking through a large telescope that his father built by hand, or watching Star Trek, if the skies were cloudy. see Speaker on page 23

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The ‘Second’ Roswell UFO Crash?

By John LeMay

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o matter how fantastic a story already is there are always those who feel compelled to add or imagine something more to it. As Roswell is famous for the July 1947 UFO crash, perhaps it should come as no surprise that there exists a rumor of a second Roswell UFO in 1949.

The basis for this rumor came from documentary film maker Linda Howe and a special agent of the U.S. Air Force at Kirtland Air Force Base, Sgt. Richard C. Doty in 1983. Howe was working with Doty on a documentary on UFOs and was shown a presidential briefing paper on UFO crashes

by Doty which oddly mentioned not one, but two separate UFO crashes in Roswell. The first was the familiar Roswell Incident of 1947 while the second was a separate crash that occurred in 1949. While this story is no doubt comprised of some confused or exaggerated information, there does exist the possibility of another strange phenomena taking place near Roswell in 1949.

An entry in the appendix of Kevin Randle’s excellent work, “A History of UFO Crashes,” details an incident in which an officer at Walker Air Force Base, Raymond P. Platt, gives a description of a bright white-blue object descending to earth.

The object was splitting apart while flying in a downward trajectory toward Bottomless

Lakes State Park on Jan. 30, 1949.

Although Platt himself told Randal he believed what he had seen was not a flying saucer, his superior would not tell Platt what it was that he saw because he wouldn’t believe the explanation “even if he could tell him.” Platt also stated that Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, the famous astronomer and studier of meteors from the University of New Mexico, was brought into Roswell to investigate the case.

Could this story lend credence to the account of the 1949 Roswell crash pushed by Doty?

Although it may seem that way it in fact does not. It just so happens that Jan. 30, 1949, was the day of the most significant green fireball sighting of the 1940s.

The green fireball wave began in late 1948 when residents of Albuquerque began reporting sightings of what the Air Force believed to simply be green flares.

This would change on Dec. 5, 1949, when a USAF C-47 saw two green fireballs in one night, one of which traveled upwards instead of descending downward.

In nearby airspace over Las Vegas, New Mexico, Pioneer Airlines Flight No. 63 also had a close encounter with a green fireball.

The sightings continued throughout December with a close proximity to New Mexico military bases. Fearing a Soviet or E.T. menace the government turned to Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, who had reportedly investigated Roswell in 1947, to help investigate this new phenomena.

Ironically LaPaz would get to observe one of the fireballs himself on the road from Los Alamos after a government meeting on the subject.

LaPaz was not alone and was accompanied by USAF Capt. Charles L. Phillips, and CAP intelligence officer Lt. Allan B. Clark. The three men saw the green fire-

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ball, which according to them also blinked on and off, heading at a straight trajectory before dropping down and splitting apart suddenly.

Sightings of green fireballs would occur nearly every evening in December and January of the new year. The big one would occur on Jan. 30 though. Described as the brightest of the green fireballs it was also reported to have been sighted in sev-

eral different states by thousands of people, the thickest concentration of witnesses was a group of servicemen “near Roswell”, however, no mention of Walker Air Force Base is made.

Although it is likely that what Raymond Platt observed from his watchtower at WAFB in Roswell was the same object as everyone else, that is still up for debate.

Unlike the U.S. Air Force’s investigation of

UFO sightings via Project Blue Book, there was no question that the green fireballs did in fact exist. The only question was what were they?

To be continued.

2015 UFO Festival, Filmfestival and Cosmicon

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Date/Time Event Location Thursday, July 2 10 a.m.

Begin of the Filmfest with the showing of

“Mojave Junction” -13 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 10:15 a.m. “Sample Return” - 6 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 10:25 a.m. “Furries: The Movie” - 40 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 10:30 a.m.- The Gallery of the Roswell Fine Arts League The Gallery, 223 N. Main St. 5 p.m. will make clay discs available for kids and adults to paint

their favorite UFO or alien during the UFO Festival. $1 fee

for material.

11 a.m.

Vendors open.

11:10 a.m. “Aliens Too Illegal” - 7 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 11:20 a.m. “Tang” - 12 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 11:50 a.m. “Street Eyes” - 84 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall Noon-7 p.m. Free kids activities.

At the courthouse 1:30 p.m.

“The Future Perfect” - 13 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 1:45 p.m.

“Mellencamp” - 30 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 2:20 p.m.

“Elsie” - 20 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 2:45 p.m.

“Yo Soy Pedro” - 11 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 3:00 p.m.

“M-Theory” - 15 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 3:30 p.m.

“Jack Rabbit” - 90 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 5:10 p.m.

“Alekto” - 23 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 5:30 p.m.

Playtime Amusements Carnival opens Pioneer Plaza 5:35 p.m.

“Portal” (Six part web series) - 20 min. Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 6 p.m.

UFO Festival: Music by Retro Fit. Main stage in front of the courthouse

Date/Time Event Location 7 - 9 p.m. Filmfestival: Filmmakers & Celebrities meet & greet Tia Juana’s Grille &

with writer Don Glut (Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back) C antina on the patio

and entertainment by “Manifique”.

3601 N. Main St. 8 p.m.

UFO Festival: Music by Homegrown Boys.

Main stage in front of the

courthouse 9 p.m.

“Earth to Echo” (2014) Free movie under the stars Roswell Convention Center,

presented by the Roswell Filmfest & Cosmicon lawn

as part of the MainStreet Roswell Summer Movie program.

Friday, July 3 9:30-10 a.m. A Tribute: To Doctor/Colonel Jesse Marcel Jr.

“An Officer and a Gentleman.”

UFO Museum 10 a.m.5 p.m.

Sharon King — All day arts and crafts for kids. UFO Museum - Front Lobby 10 a.m.6 p.m.

Roswell Filmfest, Cosmicon Art & Vendor Show.

Roswell Mall

Star Wars 501st, R2D2 Workshop, Relicwood Media Players,

Photo Ops with a TARDIS as featured in Dr. Who. 10-11:30 a.m. Kathy Marden — High Strangeness.

UFO Museum North Library 10-11:30 a.m. Frank Kimbler — Xenoarchaeology: Convention Center Nancy Lopez/Robert Goddard Room

The Science of Hunting Alien Artifacts.

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Date/Time Event Location Friday, July 3 — continued 10-11:30 a.m. Thomas Carey — Roswell Deathbed Confessions. Convention Center Exhibit

Hall 10-11:30 a.m. Kathy Marden — High Strangeness.

UFO Museum North Library 10-11:30 a.m. Ken Hudnall — UFO’s and Ancient Gods.

UFO Museum Video Room 10 a.m.6 p.m.

Roswell Cosmicon Art & Vendor Show Roswell Mall 10 a.m.

Steampunk Extravaganza at the Roswell Cosmicon.

Roswell Mall 10 a.m.

“The Future Perfect” - 13 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 10:15 a.m. “The Red Thunder” - 7 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 10:25 a.m. “Furries: The Movie” - 40 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 10:30 a.m.5 p.m.

Paint an Alien during the UFO Festival. $1 fee The Gallery, 223 N. Main St. 10:30-Noon Derrel Sims Workshop $10 — Medical and scientific UFO Museum

evidence. of UFO contact: Newest data Upstairs Meeting Room

on alien implants.

Noon-7 p.m. Free kids activities.

At the courthouse 11-5 p.m.

UFO Festival: Music by Max Vance and Sam Dunahoo, Main stage in front of followed my “The Triad” and “Love is Blind” the courthouse 11 a.m.

Character Development for Cosplay workshop: Roswell Mall

M.B. Christopher (The Wordsmith) author of books, short stories and plays.

“What is needed to flesh out a Cosplay character.

11:10 a.m. “Genetic Drift” - 19 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, North Mall 11:45 a.m. “Shadows on the Wall” - 90 min.

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Jesse Marcel II and Denice Marcel — Generations. Convention Center Exhibit

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Patty Greer — Crop Circles: Keys of Wisdom. Convention Center Nancy Lopez/

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Thomas Carey and Donald Schmitt — Inside the real Area 51. UFO Museum

North Library

Tom Kirkbride — Roswell, Aliens, UFO’s

and the Gamadin Book Series.

UFO Museum Video Room Noon Steampunk workshop: Basic Dance, or Roswell Mall

— How to look like you know what you are doing when a Steampunk/Victorian song comes on

by Lady Epitaph - Waltz and Polka.

1 p.m.

Cosplay workshop for the curvaceous.

Roswell Mall

Crystal Gage gives insights and ideas on making cosplay outfits for a

rounder body-type, to look great and

“be your other self.”

1 p.m.

UFO Festival: Music by The Triad.

Main stage in front of the courthouse 1:30 p.m.

“The Travelers” - 8 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 1:40 p.m.

“Mellencamp” - 30 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 2-3:30 p.m. Travis Walton Convention Center Exhibit Hall

— Fire in the Sky:

Discoveries of the Newer Research.

2-3:30 p.m. Kathy Marden — ET Contact: Convention Center Nancy Lopez/

From abduction to transformation.

Robert Goddard Room 2-3:30 p.m. Derrel Sims — What Aliens may actually look like. U FO Museum North Library 2-3:30 p.m. Larry Holcombe — Roswell: UFO’s and the Presidents.

UFO Museum

Video Room 2 p.m.

Dark Steam Punk panel/discussion lead by Roswell Mall

Captain Whittaker of Airship Isabella.

The symposium is about the darker side

of steam punk: “It’s not all top hats and lace.”

2:15 p.m.

Portal (Six Part web series) - 20 min. Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 2:40 p.m.

“Tang” - 12 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 2:55 p.m.

“Elsie” - 14 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 3 p.m.

UFO Festival: Love is Blind.

Main stage in front of the courthouse 3:25 p.m.

“Dragon Warriors” - 113 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 4-5:30 p.m. Yvonne Smith — Coronado: The President, Convention Center Exhibit Hall

The Secret Service & UFO Abductions.

4-5:30 p.m. Dr. Joseph Buchman.

Convention Center Nancy Lopez/

Robert Goddard Room 4-5:30 p.m. Panel discussion with Thomas Reed and UFO Museum North Library

other guest speakers:

UFO cases that impact and engrave US History.

Ronald Regehr — Photographs from the office UFO Museum Video Room

of Gen. Roger Ramey, July 8, 1947.

4 p.m- 8 p.m. Werewolf Tournament at Pair-A-Dice Game Shack booth.

Roswell Mall 4-6 p.m.

Alien Chase pickup of participants packages Convention and Civic Center 4 p.m.

Tea Dueling, join the traditional Steampunk contest.

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A prize will be awarded to the winning duelist.

All participants will receive their own tea cup.

$10 per participant, limited to 20 competitors,

spectators welcome.

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Date/Time Event Location Friday, July 3 — continued 5 p.m.

Steam Punk panel/discussion, lead by Captain Whittaker, Roswell Mall

Lord Epitaph and Jim Trent.

Attendees will learn some of the ins and outs of

Steampunk dress, characters and society including history, music

and lifestyle. Questions will be answered.

5 p.m.

UFO Festival: Music by Crashing Pink Flamingos.

Main stage in front

of the courthouse 5:25 p.m.

“Cosmic Kiosk” - 16 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 6 p.m.

Music on the Patio by Manifique.

Peppers Grill & Bar, 500 N. Main St. 6-8 p.m.

Abduction Panel hosted by Derrel Sims Convention Center Exhibit Hall

with Kathy Marden, Thom Reed,

Yvonne Smith and Travis Walton.

6:307:30 p.m.

Cosplay Parade and Contest in the Center Mall.

Roswell Mall 7 p.m.

UFO Festival: Music by Mad Moe Zell. Main stage in front of the courthouse 8:30 p.m.

Friday Night Magic.

Pair-A-Dice Game Shack, 309 N. Main St. 9 p.m.

UFO Festival: Music by Doug Roysden Band.

Main stage in front of the courthouse Noon-7 p.m. Free kids activities.

At the courthouse 6:307:30 p.m.

Open for the public: Galactic Sushi Restaurant,

Filmmakers & Celebrities 4311 N. Main St. #C

Under new ownership with original recipes

Date/Time Event Location

meet & greet with actor Tommy “Tiny” Lister next to the AT&T building

(Star Trek, Dark Knight, Fifth Element) 9 p.m.

UFO Festival Light Parade.

Main Street Roswell

The parade runs south on Main Street from

Seventh St. to Third St. 9 p.m.Midnight First Steampunk Ball.

Peppers Grill & Bar, 500 N. Main St.

Cover is $20 per person,

Entertainment: El Paso Band and “The Marquis of Vaudeville.”

Cash bar available all evening, kitchen open for dinner until 10 p.m.

Saturday, July 4 6-6:30 a.m. Alien Chase Race day registration Convention and Civic Center 7 a.m.

Alien Chase begins. Award Ceremony when Convention and Civic Center

last runner is through the finish line 9 a.m.

Vendors open.

9 a.m.4 p.m.

Robert H. Goddard Planetarium alternate shows 100 W. 11th St.

every top of the hour beginning at 9 a.m. with

“Our neighborhood, the solar system” and “The Age of Aquarius.”

The Planetarium is attached to the

Roswell Museum and Art Center on it’s north side.

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Date/Time Event Location Saturday, July 4 — Continued 10 a.m.

Alien Pet Contest on the north side of the Roswell Convention Roswell Convention and Civic Center. and Civic Center 10 a.m.

“Tang” - 12 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 10 a.m.

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UFO Museum North Library 10-11:30 a.m. Ken Hudnall — Sensual alien encounters.

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“Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton.”

Questions and answers with Travis Walton, Peter Robbins and others.

10 a.m.5 p.m.

Sharon King — All day arts and crafts for kids.

UFO Museum front lobby 10:15 a.m. “Elsie” - 14 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 10:30 a.m. “Seeing Red” - 11 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 10:30 amNoon Derrel Sims Workshop $10 — How to find UFO Evidence UFO Museum

(special equipment for use provided.) upstairs meeting room 10:30 a.m.5 p.m.

Paint an Alien on a disk. $1 fee.

The Gallery, 223 N. Main St. 10:45 a.m. “Portal” (Six Part web series) - 20 min. Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 11 a.m.

Vendors open.

11 a.m.

UFO Festival: Music by Doug and Shannon.

Main stage in front of the

courthouse 11 a.m.

Character Design for Comics at Tiffany Pascal’s booth.

Roswell Mall

What does it take to create a unique Comic Character.

11:10 a.m. “Cosmic Kiosk” - 16 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 11:50 a.m. “The Red Thunder” - 7 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall Noon “The Travelers” - 8 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall Noon-7 p.m. Free kids activities.

At the courthouse Noon Steampunk: Goggle workshop with Professor Brassthorn.

Roswell Mall

Basic goggle construction and hands-on advice for the

attendees on how to make artistic goggles. This popular workshop

returns from last year. Fee includes goggles and accessories to apply. $30 fee.

Noon1:30 p.m.

Patty Greer — Deciphering crop circles

messages and the science.

UFO Museum Video Room 12:10 p.m. “Test” - 10 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 12:25 p.m. “Yo Soy Pedro” - 11 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 12:30-2 p.m. Stanton Friedman UFO Museum North Library

— The real Majestic 12 Story.

12:40 p.m. “Mellencamp” - 30 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall Until 1 p.m. Human Alien Costume contest registration. Roswell Museum and Art Center

No charge.

1 p.m.

UFO Festival: Music by Max Vance and Sam Dunahoo. Main stage in front of

the courthouse 1:15 p.m.

“M-Theory” - 16 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 1:50 p.m.

“Mojave Junction” - 13 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 2-3:30 p.m. Frank Kimbler — Xenoarchaeology: UFO Museum

The science of hunting alien artifacts.

Video Room 2-4 p.m.

Film Panel with writer Glut, actor Tommy “Tiny” Lister and Roswell Mall

film maker Eric Martinez.

2:10 p.m.

“Alekto” - 23 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 2:30-4 p.m. Derrel Sims — Analyzing Abductee UFO Museum North Library

Drawings.

2:35 p.m.

“Furries: The Movie” - 40 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 3 p.m.

Human Alien Costume Contest.

Roswell Convention and Civic Center 3 p.m.

UFO Festival: Music.

Main stage in front of the courthouse 3:30 p.m.

“Beyond Redemption: Space Captain” - 109 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8,

Roswell Mall 4-5:30 p.m. Ronald Regehr - workshop — The Ramey memo reading.

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Video Room 4-8 p.m.

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Steampunk: Radio Portals — Lord Epitaph will explain how to Roswell Mall

start an online radio production. Where to find equipment

and how far “free” will go, until one has to “shell out”

for quality.

4:30-6 p.m. Peter Robbins — England’s Rendlesham UFO Museum North Library

Forest UFO incident: Anatomy of a best case.

5 p.m.

UFO Festival: Music by Will Bannister. Main stage in front of the courthouse 5:30 p.m. 9:15 p.m.

Roswell’s Independence Day Celebration Noon Optimist Park

Concert with Chaves Co. Community Youth Band,

Robin Scott and The Last Child Band.

5:30-10 p.m. Playtime Amusements Carnival.

Pioneer Plaza 5:30 p.m.

“Tang” - 12 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 5:45 p.m.

“Elsie” 15 min.

Filmfest at the Galaxy 8, Roswell Mall 6-8 p.m.

The Roswell Report Part 1 Convention Center Exhibit Hall

with Thomas Carey, Stanton Friedman,

Frank Kimbler, Donald Schmitt.

7 p.m.

Film Festival Red Carpet Gala.

Galaxy 8 Theater at the Roswell Mall

Award ceremony for the winning films

and digital shootout films from the

2015 Roswell Film Festival.

7 p.m.

UFO Festival: Music by Eli James Band Main stage in front of the courthouse 9 p.m.

UFO Festival: Music by Mad Moe Zell - Main stage in front of the courthouse At 9:15 p.m. Roswell Sertoma Mike Satterfield Noon Optimist Park

Memorial Fireworks Extravaganza.

Sunday, July 5 10-11:30 a.m. Peter Robbins — Excerpts and outtakes: Convention Center Exhibit Hall

reflections, stories and lessons learned during

40 years of UFO investigation, research and travel.

10-11:30 a.m. Dr. Joseph Buchman.

Convention Center Nancy Lopez/

Robert Goddard Room 10-11:30 a.m. Stanton Friedman — Star Travel? Yes! UFO Museum North Library

Tom Kirkbride — Roswell, Aliens, UFO’s UFO Museum Video Room

and the Gamadin Book Series.

10 a.m.5 p.m.

Sharon King — All day arts & crafts for kids. Roswell Museum Front Lobby 10 a.m.1 p.m.

Free kids activities.

At the courthouse 10:30 a.m.Noon Derrel Sims Workshop $10 — The write way: UFO Museum

an insight into character analysis upstairs meeting room

through handwriting.

11 a.m.

UFO Festival: Music by Tom Blake.

Main stage in front of the courthouse 11 a.m.

Vendors open.

11 a.m.10 p.m.

Playtime Amusement Carnival.

Pioneer Plaza 1 p.m.

Music continues.

Main stage in front of the courthouse 1-2:30 p.m. Jesse Marcel III and Denice Marcel — Convention Center Exhibit Hall

Beyond Roswell.

1-2:30 p.m. Larry Holcombe — Roswell: UFO’s and the Presidents.

Convention Center

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1-2:30 p.m. Ken Hudnall — UFO’s and secret societies.

UFO Museum Video Room 3 - 4:30 p.m. Alejandro Rojas — Astronomers and UFO’s. Convention Center exhibit hall 3 - 4:30 p.m. Yvonne Smith —“Experiencer’s Session:” Convention Center Nancy Lopez/

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their personal UFO experiences in a safe

environment (no press, no photos, no recording

is allowed.)

3-4:30 p.m. Kathy Marden — Betty and Barney Hill, UFO Museum North Library

generational contact and the inconvenient truth.

3-4:30 p.m. Thomas Reed — The Reed family case: The first UFO UFO Museum

case in the US officially inducted by a historical society Video Room

and deemed historically significant and true.

5 - 6:30 p.m. The Roswell Report Part 2 — Tom Carey,

Stanton Friedman, UFO Museum North Library

Frank Kimbler, Don Schmitt.

Schedule subject to change without notice.

For changes or updates check roswellufofestival.com and roswellfilmcon.com.

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He was indoctrinated early into his grandfather’s legacy, not only as his namesake, but as his protégé. He learned of an amazing tale where his grandfather was part of the discovery of a spacecraft that, in his words, “was not made by human hands.” As the summers of his youth unfolded, the details of the story intensified as he enjoyed the many hours spent with his grandfather fishing on a bayou that ran behind their house in Southern Louisiana.

After a short, two-decade detour in investment banking, Jesse returned to his roots to pick up his grandfather’s and father’s crusade.

His latest efforts include the book “Alien Crash at Roswell,” a documentary by the same name, an upcoming television series “Paranormal Justice” and a feature film called “Grail.” Outside of the film industry Marcel has been busy engineering a personal air vehicle or “flying car” where he has received international recognition for his application of emergent technologies and design.

KATHLEEN MARDEN Kathleen Marden is known around the world as an alien abduction/ ET contact scholar, researcher, author and lecturer. Her educational background in the social sciences has shaped her effort to gain an understanding of the ET contact phenomena.

Extensive research and investigation has convinced her that ET races are performing longitudinal studies on the human population. However, it is being covered up due to national security concerns.

Her interest in UFOs dates back to 1961, when her aunt, Betty Hill phoned her nearby

home to report that she and Barney had encountered a flying saucer in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. A primary witness to the evidence of the UFO encounter and the aftermath, Kathleen has intimate knowledge of the Hill’s biographical histories, investigation files, and scientific interest in their sensational experience. One scientific experiment may have led to her personal memories of contact.

She is associated with the Mutual UFO Network, as its Director of Abduction Research and the Foundation for Research of Extraterrestrial Encounters, as an advisory board member and consultant to its research subcommittee. She is the recipient of MUFON’s 2012 “Ufologist” of the Year award.

Kathleen has authored three books, “Captured!

The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience,” and “Science was Wrong,” with nuclear physicist/ scientific ufologist Stanton T. Friedman, and “The Alien Abduction Files,” with Denise Stoner, and essays in several additional books. She spearheaded an extensive research project, with Denise Stoner, to identify little known commonalities among experiencers in 2012. Her arti-

cles have been published in the MUFON UFO Journal, Open Minds, Alternate Perceptions and FATE magazines and on several websites. Marden has appeared in television and radio programs in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK and has lectured throughout the United States.

THOMAS REED Thomas Reed will make public the details of the Reed family case UFO/ Off-world Encounters. He will detail how and why their case became the first encounter officially inducted by a Massachusetts Township and Historical Society.

The incidents’ involving the Reed’s made local news on WSBS Radio in the 1960s. The incident and/or disk-shaped craft that was seen descending over the Reed farm in 1969 was issued a HYNEK classification, during the final months of Project Blue Book. Attorney Robert Bletchman, now the Reeds legally retained attorney would mention their 1960’s encounter in support of 33/426, at the United Nations. Bletchman working in conjunction with Mohammad Ramadan, the President of the Parapsychology Society at the United Nations, organized a symposium on the UFO subject in 1992. Reed’s

father, Attorney Howard Reed, would lose his life under questionable circumstances on that same day. Detective Steve White, an officer with over 30 years of law enforcement experience, investigated the Reed case. White did document radioactive hot spots and magnetic anomalies associated with the encounter. The magnetic pull turned a compass needle from a distance of two feet. Officer White would report, “A uthentic e n co un te r with an unknown powerful force”. Reed passed his first and only polygraph test with a score of 99.1%. The test was administered by a veteran police officer at the Department of Defense, Polygraph Institute. It should be noted that this family of professionals have a city proclamation in their honor, and a commemorative bench in the city green.

Debbie Oppermann, the director of the Gt Barrington MA Historical Society said to Reed, “History is a story about the past that is significant and true, yours is one of those stories.”

The case was covered by the Boston Globe, Washington Times, the Berkshire Record, Metro Pulse, Chicago Tribune, Berkshire Eagle, Knoxville News Sentinel, the Roswell Daily Record, Indianapolis Monthly Magazine and Los Angeles Times.

It was featured at Alien Mysteries, Canada TV, Daily Planet TV, CT Morning Live British Columbia News, EP Daily News, Travel Channel, Raw TV, Fuse TV, Animal Planet, CTV Canada AM Morning show, Inner space TV, CT Morning Live Saskatoon, CP24 News, Fox Red Sofa Morning Show, Discovery Channel, Paranormal Paparazzi, Mysterious

World TV, Destination America, Uncovering Aliens. (Reed appeared on CSI Miami.)

RONALD REGEHR Ronald Regehr has been a UFO researcher for more than 50 years. Regehr is a retired aerospace engineer with 36 years of experience at Douglas Aircraft and Aerojet ElectroSystems working in space and space surveillance systems. He is MUFON Director of Documentation and a MUFON research specialist in space satellite technology. Two of his major areas of contribution in UFO research are satellite detection of UFOs and analysis of photos and other data associated with the Roswell case.

From 1962 to 1999, Regehr was an engineer with Douglas Aircraft (now Boeing) and Aerojet (now Northrop Grumman). At Douglas he was see Speaker on page 25

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part of the Saturn/Apollo design team responsible for the electrical interface between stages of the Apollo rocket. Later he developed the requirements for the first US space station, Skylab, working closely with the astronauts, NASA headquarters, and Douglas designers.

At Aerojet, Regehr was part of the team that developed specifications for one of our nation’s top spy satellites, the Defense Support Program, or DSP. The team developed ground data-processing software and interfaces with other program elements. During his career, he held various security clearances up to the level of top secret Q and he was frequently called upon to assist government specialists in evaluation of classified

programs.

Regehr first became interested in the UFO phenomena in the mid-1950s as a young volunteer for the Ground Observer Corps. Through the years he continued reading everything av ailable on UFOs, and in the mid-1980s he became seriously involved in UFO research when his knowledge of classified data indicated to him the US government was not telling the pubic the truth about UFOs. In particular, based on technical details in the 1976 Iranian UFO case, Regehr became convinced that US spy satellites were detecting UFOs. Between 1988 and 1994 he published a series of articles establishing that this was true, culminating in his April 1994 MUFON Journal article, “Do Spy Satellites See UFOs?” Also in 1994, Regehr made the

information available to a national audience as a guest participant in a documentary on the Iranian UFO case on the TV program “Sightings.” In 1998 Regehr published a monograph “How to build a $125 million UFO Detector,” which is an analysis of the technical problems involved in satellite detection of UFOs. Regehr’s Iranian UFO paper, which won 1st prize in MUFON’s 2006 “Best Evidence” contest, combined newly published information (Pratt; Maccabee) with Regehr’s analysis to show that the 1976 event in Iran provides irrefutable evidence of the reality of UFOs. Other research done

by Regehr contributed to knowledge about the Roswell case. Regehr’s Feb. 2000 MUFON UFO Journal article “Not Enough ‘Foil’,” shows that the 200-yd. diameter debris field described

by Mac Brazel was far too large to have been caused by the impact of a Mogul research balloon.

In 1998-2000 Regehr played a key role in bringing to fruition research on the Roswell Ramey office photos carried out by Regehr, Morris, Leveoux, and Johnson. Careful analysis of the photos, rescued from 50 years of obscurity, revealed the times of day the photos were made, that two photographers photographed the debris, that the debris pictured in the photos could not have been that of a Mogul balloon, and even that virtually all of the text of the teletype held by Gen. Ramey was readable. This research, and compelling evidence of just why “Bond” Johnson was able to “scoop” the other Dallas/Fort Worth news media are being compiled in Regehr’s latest book, “What? Another Dang Roswell Book!”

Regehr has been a guest on the television programs “Strange Universe” and “Sightings,” on the Learning Channel and a guest on the Art Bell radio program numerous times. He was a speaker at the 2004 Las Vegas Crash/Retrieval conference on the topic of the Ramey office photos; at the Roswell UFO Festival in 1999 and from 2006 through 2010; at the UFO Friendship Campout at Rachel, Nevada in 1997; at the International UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada in 2000; at HUFON (the Houston UFO Network) in 1994; and at MUFON Orange County, Calif. numerous times. He won MUFON’s contest for the Best UFO Case for his work on the Iranian UFO Incident and spoke at the MUFON Symposium. In 2009 Regehr was a featured speaker at the inaugural Galactic Gathering in Denver, Colo-

rado. He has published articles in the MUFON Journal and UFO Magazine, and he has presented several workshops at the MUFON International Symposia.

Regehr is the former State Director of MUFON, Utah, and resigned that post to fill the position of MUFON Director of Documentation where he revised and updated the MUFON Field Investigator’s Manual to bring it up to industry standards and enable electronic access and updates for all MUFON members.

Regehr lives in Rimrock, Arizona, where he is enjoying his retirement. He is the father of 3 grown daughters and grandfather of 5 boys.

PETER ROBBINS Peter Robbins is an investigative writer, author and lecturer best known for his UFO relatsee

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articles, editorials, commentaries, lectures and media appearances.

He is a regular fixture on radio and has appeared as a guest on and been consultant to numerous

television shows and documentaries.

Robbins’ background is fairly nonstandard for his chosen field. He was born in New York City and studied art, design and theater at University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, receiving his

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BFA (painting, film history) from New York City’s School of Visual Arts (SVA). He taught painting at SVA in their Department of Continuing Education for more than a dozen years, was a member of the art faculties of St. Anns School in Brooklyn Heights and the Oklahoma Council on the Arts ‘Arts Encounters’ program. Following graduation from SVA, Robbins joined the Norwegian Merchant Marine and for a time worked on a freighter as a common seaman. During the years following he was studio assistant to the world-famous abstract expressionist painter Adolph Gotlieb and to the American primitive painter William Copley, also known as CPLY. He was also assistant to pioneer kinetic light sculptor Stanley Landsman.

Robbins also worked as a framing carpenter, interior demolition specialist, art gallery assistant, copy writer, editor, and House Manager for New York City’s distinguished Mirror Repertory Company. From 1988 until 1994 Peter was a crisis intervention volunteer for the Samaritans International. He has traveled in approximately thirty countries, is an experienced New York City tour guide, and an accomplished photographer. He is also co-author, along with Larry Warren, of the highly

acclaimed British bestseller, “Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident,” Its Cover-Up and Investigation. In August 2014 he publish e d De libe rate Deception: A Case of Disinformation in the UFO Research Community.

The (cyber) book is available at no cost from the author.

Venues Robbins has spoken at the most esteemed institutions in the US and overseas, including The National Press Club in Washington D.C.; annual regional BUFORA (British UFO Research Association) Conferences, the UFO Truth Magazine Conference in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, and a fifteen-city book tour of the UK. Other non-academic sponsors and conferences have include X-Conferences, Washington, D.C.; UFO Reykawvik Summit, Lawrence, Kansas; Annual International UFO Congresses, Phoenix Arizona; Annual MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) International Symposiums all around the world. In October 2013 he presented three papers at an International Conference on the Scientific Discoveries of Dr. Wilhelm Reich in Rome.

Latest presentations in 2014 include talks at the Exobiology International Meeting in Segrate (near Milano) Italy, the New

England UFO Conference in Leominster, Massachusetts and the first annual Skyfire Conference in Holbrook, Arizona and the sixth World UFO Forum in Brazil.

Robbins’ professional credits include: Editorial Assistant on the United Nations’ Secretary General’s (requested) report “for the establishment of a UN-UFO Department, and Editorial Assistant for Member of Parliament, the Honourable Brinsley Le Pour Trench, Earl of Clancarty’s (requested) paper for The House of Lords 1980 debate on UFOs. He was a founding member and Advisory Board member of Budd Hopkins’ Intruders Foundation, and former Executive Assistant to Mr. Hopkins; event coordinator for the SCI FI Channel’s “Alien Abduction Phenomenon: A Symposium,” organized to promote the release of the Steven Spielberg miniseries “Taken,” and writer, planner and commentator for the “Ultimate UFO” and “Ultimate Crop Circle” DVD sets.

Robbins has written for Open Minds magazine, FATE, Phenomena (UK) UFO Data Magazine (UK), UFO Matrix (UK), UFO Magazine (both the UK & US publications), OUR-J Journal of UFO Studies (Japan), and numerous other UFO related publications and websites. He is currently the American columnist for UFO Truth

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Magazine. From 2007 until 2010 he served as consultant and adviser to the City of Roswell New Mexico and coordinator of the city’s annual UFO symposium. In 2012 Robbins was made a member of the French Académie d’Ufologie, and in 2013 was invited to give testimony at the Citizen’s Hearings on Disclosure held at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. Robbins is currently associate producer of the independent film “Apollo Minus Zero,” due for release in 2015. He is also Associate Producer of a currently in-production feature-length documentary on Travis Walton (working title, “Travis”) and a co-organizer of the first ‘Fire in the Sky’ UFO Conference to be held this November in Arizona.

ALEJANDRO ROJAS Alejandro Rojas is director of operations for Open Minds Production, the host for Open Minds UFO Radio, editor and contributing writer for OpenMinds.tv, co-host of the YouTube web series “Spacing Out!,” and emcee for the International UFO Congress. He is also a blogger for the Huffington Post. For several years, Alejandro was the official spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network as the Director of Public Education.

As a UFO/Paranormal researcher and journalist, Alejandro has spent many hours in the field investigating anomalous phenomena up close and personal. Alejandro has been interviewed by media organizations around the world, including the largest cable and network news agencies with regular appearances on Coast to Coast AM. He has been featured on the Travel Channel, Syfy, National Geographic, and E!. see

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Channel, BBC, Learning Channel, Today Show, Continued from Page 26 NBC, ABC News, CNN DONALD R SCHMITT News, OMNI Magazine Donald R. Schmitt is and many more. He was the former co-director of an on-set consultant at the J. Allen Hynek Center Paramount Studios on one for UFO Studies in Chi- episode of the TV series cago where he served as “Roswell.” The basis of Director of Special Inves- his research and consultigations for 10 years. tation has been the theme Prior to that time, he was of many documentaries a special investigator including “UFO Secret: for the late Dr. J. Allen The Roswell Crash” and Hynek and the art direc- two-time British Academy tor for the International Award winner producer UFO Reporter. Schmitt John Purdies’s “The Rosgraduated from MATC well Incident.” Schmitt with a degree in Com- feels that by far his greatmercial Art and graduat- est achievement was the ed cum laude from Con- Golden Globe Best Piccordia University with a ture nominated motion degree in Liberal Arts. He picture “Roswell,” that is currently taking grad- was based on the first uate courses in Criminal book.

Justice. He is author of DERREL SIMS numerous articles about Derrel Sims is a UFOs as well as the co-au- licensed private investithor of two best-sell- gator who worked undering books “UFO Crash cover for the CIA during at Roswell,” “The Truth his military service. He About the UFO Crash at c l a i m s t o h a v e b e e n Roswell,” “Witness To abducted by aliens from Roswell,” unmasking the the age of 4 until he was 60 year cover up and 17, when his contact with “Roswell, The Chrono- evil entities ended viological Pictorial.” He has lently. From then on, Sims appeared on Oprah, CBS determined to transform 48 Hours, Larry King Live, his life role from being CNN News, just to name a the “hunted” to the “huntfew. Schmitt has led and er” of the alien prey. His organized the three only determination kicked into archeological dig proj- overdrive when, years ects at the actual Roswell later, he realized the crash/debris field con- aliens had begun abductducted in 1989, 2002 and ing his 5-year-old son.

2006. The second effort In Sims’ 40 years of became the central theme field research, he has of the highest rated show drawn on all his investiup to that time in the his- gative , psych o lo gical tory of the Sci Fi Chan- and forensic training to nel “The Roswell Crash: track down evidence of Startling New Evidence.” alien activity. This led He is an internationally to Sims’ ground-breakknown lecturer includ- ing discoveries of alien ing Battelle Institute. His implants being inserted interview list includes into abductees, perhaps Oprah, Peter Jennings, to influence or alter their CBS 48 Hours, Paul Har- behavior; and alien fluov e y , L ar r y K i n g L i v e , rescence, a kind of indelMontel Williams, Mancow ible “fingerprint” that Muller, Kevin Mathews, the alien leaves behind Art Bell, George Noory, on an abductee or their Shirley McClaine Show, surroundings. In 1992, Fox Good Day LA, NPR, the press dubbed him, Mutual Broadcasting Net- “the Alien Hunter,” and work, CNN Investigates, the nickname has provSci Fi Investigates, Dis- en an apt description ney Channel, The Travel of Sims’ mission.

Sims has a unique insight into the alien organization which he believes functions similarly to an intelligence agency. He suspects that the alien uses similar covert techniques to spy on and manipulate humankind as he witnessed when working for the CIA during the Cold War. And just as military/intel operatives might try to brainwash a captured spy or POW, Sims believes the alien is able to alter an abductee’s perception of their experience. Over the years, he’s put to use his many hypnotherapy certifications to unravel this alien mind control, and says he’s even trained his own Manchurian candidates as warriors in the alien resistance.

A coalition of top-secret government, military and intelligence factions are well aware of the alien presence on Earth, claims Sims, and he says they’re using ‘black ops’ to monitor ET activities. Tactics include unmarked black helicopters and jeeps as well as armed military personnel dressed in civilian clothes that are deployed to UFO hotspots. Sims has even uncovered witnesses to military shoot-downs of UFOs, done to capture and analyze the exotic technology.

Sims strongly believes that the American people should be told the truth: “Aliens are among us and they are not here for good!”

YVONNE SMITH Yvonne Smith, C.Ht. is the author of “Chosen: Recollections of UFO Abductions Through Hypnotherapy” and her latest book, “Coronado: The President, The Secret Service and Alien Abductions.”

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national and international conferences, various universities and co-lectured with her mentor, Budd Hopkins, John Mack, M.D. and David Jacobs, Ph.D. Her many television appearances have included the History Channel, MSNBC, Discovery Channel, Encounters, Sightings, The Joan Rivers Show, Montel Williams as well as countless radio shows.

In 1992, Smith founded “Close Encounters Research Organization” (CERO), a support group for Abductees and in January 2013, Smith launched “CERO International” whose mission is to “Investigate, Educate and Support” and to recognize and preserve “Abductees Civil Rights”.

TRAVIS WALTON Travis Walton is the subject of the Paramount Studios movie, “Fire in

the Sky,” based on his book of the same name.

On November 5, 1975 a group of loggers in the mountains of northeastern Arizona observed a strange, unusually bright light in the sky. One of the men, Walton, recklessly left the safety of the truck to take a closer look. Suddenly as he walked toward the light, Walton was blasted back by a bolt of mysterious energy. His companions fled in fear. When they reported an encounter with a UFO – something they would have considered impossible if they had not witnessed it themselves – the men were suspected of murder. For five days authorities mounted a massive manhunt in search of Walton – or his body.

Then Walton reappeared, disoriented and initially unable to tell the whole story of his terrifying encounter. In “Fire in the Sky,” Walton relates in his own words the best

documented account of alien abduction yet recorded, the story of his harrowing ordeal at the hands of silent captors, his return to a disbelieving world of hostile interrogators, exploitative press, and selfstyled debunkers. Travis recounts the struggle to get a fair hearing and confronts his detractors with a stinging rebuttal.

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Continued from Page 11 similar physical characteristics: countenance of a sixtyish-year-old male, about 6 feet tall, 240-250 pounds, protuberant belly, thick muscular arms, barrel chest and sinewy legs. Not at all do they project the classic sprinter look.

He was wearing lightweight track cleats and he had his own starting block. I knew I had found the guy. He was off by himself practicing his start. If you have never watched a talented sprinter leave the starting blocks then you are missing out on one of the most fascinating human biomechanical maneuvers on the planet. This guy was good. Explosive launch, head down and upper body parallel to the track for several steps, until just the right moment before standing up to extend his acceleration down the track. Fast and smooth!

These guys, including this guy, were always different in a couple of other ways. Senior Olympians are a gregarious bunch of folks. Without fail I watch them walk up to complete strangers and within minutes a new friend is made.

All of them have an entourage of friends or family dutifully cheering from the stands. My guy, the sprinter was always alone. The past few years I have been watching him move around the field and there are never the friends or relatives hovering about. That is until he runs. Suddenly everyone notices and the guy is inundated. First by the runners he just smoked, needing to shake his hand and then by others as he walks back for his blocks. Today I even saw the fully costumed roadrunner mascot almost fall down as he ran after the sprinter, attempting to pat him on the back. This time I decided to follow behind as he walked and listened to his responses to questions being asked by his new fans.

“I felt really good.” “I love running.” “I do this for the fun and to make new friends.” “I really don’t train that much.” Canned responses, offering no substance as to who he was or how he trained to achieve his impressive skills.

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I hear the same comments each year. “Who is that guy?” “How is that humanly possible?” “How can someone that old run that fast and that smooth?”

I have run and raced extensively in my life. I understand what is physically and mentally needed to do that. It hurts to run that way. My professional training has taught me the biochemical, biomechanical, physiological and psychological functions required to run at that caliber. I have been unable, since starting this volunteer job, to explain how a 60-year-old can run that fast and that smoothly.

This year I swore I would learn more about that guy. I needed to know how he did it. After the sprinter collected his last gold medal and gathered his gear bag, he headed for the parking lot alone. My services were no longer needed so I followed, meaning to catch up with him and introduce myself. I had lots of questions. He headed for the far reaches of the parking lot where there was a strange looking hybrid parked between two pickup trucks. I have long given up trying to identify new cars. I just assumed this was one of the new styles that I had not seen before. I sped up to catch him and he seemed to move faster, with a very fluid walking pace. As he got closer I noticed the unique vehicle start to shimmer and a strange hum began to emanate from the hybrid. When he was a few steps from his car a gull wing swept open. I stopped in amazement and he turned to look my way. He winked a knowing eye at me, tossed in his gear bag and followed right behind in a mercurial arc. The car listed under his weight, as if it had been hovering. I closed my eyes in disbelief, to clear them and make sure I was seeing correctly. When I looked again he was gone.

I gazed all around and only saw other cars slowly exiting the lot. The runner and his craft had vanished, right before my briefly shuttered eyelids. I stood there, beginning to feel somewhat foolish. I appeased myself with the realization that this was just another day in Roswell. I will hardly be able to wait until next year. Who will be the guy?

Workshops and panels from masters of the film industry and comic artists at the Roswell Mall invite the audience to participate

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Guest of Honor: Donald F. Glut Donald F. Glut has been professionally active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966.

Born in Pecos, Texas, Don grew up in Chicago, IL. At age nine, already bitten by the film-making bug, he made “Diplodocus at Large,” the first of 41 amateur movies featuring dinosaurs, human monsters, Frankenstein’s Monster, Teenage Werewolf and superheroes, such as Spider-Man, Captain Marvel. Some of thefilms made during the late 1960s, notably “Spy Smasher vs. the Purple

Monster” were eventually shown in theaters and on TV. Glut had been an actor, musician, singer and songwriter during his long career in the film and music industry.

Don is best known for his novelization of the movie “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980), the nation’s No. 1 bestseller for almost two months, which to date has sold over 3.5 million copies and is still in print. In 1982 he created characters and back story for Mattel’s “Masters of the Universe” toy line.

Among his more recent books is Chomper, an entry in the popular

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In 2000, he was commissioned by Irena Belle Productions to direct the movie “The Vampire see Culture on page 30

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Hunters Club,” featuring an all-star genre cast with Bob Burns, Forrest J. Ackerman, John Agar, Conrad Brooks, Mary Woronov, and several other celebrities. The tongue-in-cheek short movie is a parody of horror legends and myths.

Guest of Honor: Tommy “Tiny” Lister Hardly diminutive, 6’5” Tommy “Tiny” Lister is not just a highly recognizable figure on screen, but also a highly accomplished actor. Originally a professional wrestler known by the names “Zeus” and “ZGangsta” for the WWF, Lister left the world of wrestling in the mid 80’s to pursue an acting career. And he hasn’t stopped since.

Since his debut as an actor, Lister has made an impression in over 90 films in a 20-year span, and continues his reputation of working with some

Courtesy Photo Tommy “Tiny” Lister of the best actors and directors from a wide net of genres - from thriller to drama to sci-fi to comedy.

Lister made his feature film debut in director Hal Ashby’s final film “8 Million Ways to Die,” and spent the next few years learning the craft and appearing in films heavy in action and in talent: “Runaway Train” with Jon Voight, “Beverly Hills Cop II” with Eddie Murphy, and “No Holds

Barred” with fellow WWF wrestler Hulk Hogan.

In the 90’s Lister expanded his resume, continuing to make his mark in films with the be st in th e business.

He joined Johnny Depp and the legendary Marlon Brando in the quirky “Don Juan De Marco” and worked with director Quentin Tarantino and actor Andy Garcia in the wan n a-be noir “Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead.” He would later work again with Tarantino in Jackie Brown.

Lister’s 1990’s career benefited from the decade’s surge in African-American filmmaking. Lister has continued with his wide, often eclectic range of roles.

He played the Klingon Klaang, the first Klingon ever encountered by humans, in the Star Trek Enterprise feature-length pilot episode “Broken Bow.” in 2001. He played the President in director

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Luc Besson’s sci-fi movie “Fifth Element” opposite Bruce Willis and worked with Adam Sandler in “Little Nikki,” as well as Mike Meyers in “Austin Powers: Goldmember.”

He joined Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia and Rachel Weiss in the 2003 crime thriller “Confidence.”

Lister has worked with some of the greatest directors (Tarantino, Besson, Frankenheimer), many of the most noted actors (Marlon Brando, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Depp, Peter O’Toole) and a good share of the top talent in wrestling and rap (Hulk Hogan, 50 Cent and Tupac Shakur, respectively) - but it is Lister’s devotion to ministry and public speaking that makes the biggest impression. Along with his wife Felicia, Lister now ministers across the country, reaching out to troubled youth, and sharing his powerful testimony and inspiration in

churches and schools.

Eric Martinez Hailing from Albuquerque, Martinez is an actor, director, producer and activist that has had tremendous success in the entertainment industry.

Next to the Guest of Honors the Cosmicon features workshops and many vendors: Comic Artist: Tiffany Pascal She is going to teach an Intro to Comic Books class at the Roswell Museum and Fine Art Center this July.

At the Cosmicon Pascal is going to have a character design workshop, with a special emphasis on diversity.

Steampunk Society: The Pecos Valley Steam Society Social Members of the local Steampunk Society are looking forward to welcome their fellow Steampunk-fans, tourists and newbies to their booths.

They are going to have a plethora of events and

workshops. From how to dance to Steampunk music, to workshops to learn how to dress, make jewelry, and for those who have never heard about it, an insider experience into the world of Steampunk. The members of the Roswell Society are co-organizer of the Cosmicon and are also members of the artistic community of Roswell.

Writer and Missionary: Guy Malone After five years, Guy Malone returns to Roswell for a visit to promote his book “Come Sail Away With Me.” The book will be available at Malone’s booth signed by the author and $5 cheaper during the Festival.

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Would full UFO disclosure unravel human society? Part 1

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t’s a stock device in science fiction films for someone with privileged information to tell his colleagues behind closed doors: “If the public ever found out about this, the authorities could never contain the panic that would ensue.” The assumption always seems to be that people simply couldn’t handle the experience of learning about anything extraordinary, and naturally one of the primary things some theorists think it might be dangerous to learn about is the knowledge that humankind has been visited by beings from other worlds.

No less prestigious an entity than the famous Brookings Institute weighed in on this question in 1960 when it issued a 100page report, on behalf of NASA, concerning the likely effects of the public’s finding out what the government presumably already knows about UFOs and their occupants.

The report quoted ethnologist Margaret Mead pointing out that there are dangers to be faced when a closed, insular society suddenly comes in contact with an external culture that has very different views, beliefs, habits, and devices. The original society may

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either suffer social disintegration or manage to survive only by allowing much of its native structure to be changed by the obtruding culture.

The writers of the Brookings report employed Mead’s comments to suggest that the human race, like a primitive tribal group invaded by technologically more sophisticated visitors, might run the risk of losing much of its own identity.

Indeed, our own history is replete with examples of this, where invading cultures have displaced indigenous religious, moral, and social precepts with their own systems. Whether this notion extends to scenarios in which humankind, as the indigenous life form, comes to be open to alien influences from the Great Outside, is food for speculation.

For a long time in the field of UFO studies people have hypothesized that perhaps the many UFO-themed movies appearing over the years have done something toward “acclimatizing” the public to the notion of extra-terrestrial cont ac t , p o s s ib l y e v e n with some covert government funding for that purpose.

Certainly such films could have had that

effect, much as the 1945 Alfred Hitchcock movie “Spellbound” had the effect of popularizing the notion of psychoanalysis, which up to that time the public had little acquaintance with. Clearly, the medium of film is capable of affecting, informing, and even manipulating popular opinion and public awareness.

But some sociologists have felt that the Brookings Institute’s remarks about social disintegration need to be put in perspective.

Would a lot of people have found it disturbing in 1947 if the government had told them the facts about the Roswell UFO crash?

Quite possibly. Would people be equally disturbed to hear about it now? I doubt it.

Nowadays the main reaction would probably be annoyance over not having been told sooner. The point is that the Brookings report might have been an accurate assessment at one time, but things change.

One of the variations on the “disclosure would bring social disintegration” theme is the idea that such disclosure of UFO-related information (the knowledge that we have been visited by aliens) would be injurious to the whole fab-

ric of human religion.

In some respects there could be an element of truth in this, but it seems to me that the case is overstated.

Official UFO disclosure would amount to informing everyone that our position in the scheme of things isn’t exactly what it has often been thought to be, that we flatter ourselves if we imagine that we alone have intelligence and social organization or that our cozy little world is the only place where complex life has evolved.

For some, disclosure would be a considerable change from the traditional view of ourselves as holding a unique, special, privileged position in the universe. If there are intelligently guided airborne objects in our skies, objects that didn’t originate on Planet Earth, then we belong to a cosmic community more inclusive than we’ve ever dreamed.

Even so, in my experience this doesn’t necessarily disturb people’s religious beliefs.

While it’s not a personal issue with me since I don’t happen to be religious, I have known many people who are deeply so, yet are quite comfortable with their awareness that extra-terrestrial beings have visited our planet. These folks

simply find no conflict between their belief systems and what they know to be UFO-related realities well supported by evidence.

On the other hand, depending on precisely what sorts of secrets the government is keeping, the Brookings Institute report writers may have guessed right, in part anyway, when they inferred that some of these secrets, if revealed, could bother some people.

I say “guessed right” because in 1960 when the report was written, its authors were unlikely to have known some things we investigato rs h ave s in ce learned, and even the government itself could not have known some of the things it must know now.

In particular, I have long suspected, just on the basis of simple logic, that the government must by now have taken advantage of improved techniques, recently developed, for extracting and sequencing DNA, to do thorough gene-sequencing on the alien bodies recovered from the Roswell UFO crash of July 1947. What might this DNA analysis have revealed?

Almost anything it can have revealed would amount to spectacularly important information, and there must be

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a very wide spectrum of possibilities.

Just as a hypothetical example, suppose the secret keepers knew that the DNA analysis on the alien bodies had revealed compelling genetic evidence that we humans and these extra-terrestrial beings share a lot of homologous genes, enough perhaps even to suggest that they and we could somehow have common ancestors, as we do have with other life forms here on Earth. It seems likely that release of such information could be troubling to people having beliefs embracing a more traditional view of the origins of human life.

But would the official admission that UFO wreckage and retrieved alien bodies simply exist be enough to cause frenzy and panic? There is no reason to think so.

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