Over at
Mysterious Universe, there's a new article from me on last week's 70th anniversary celebrations in Roswell, New Mexico. Here's how it starts:
From June 28 to July 2, I hung out in the city of Roswell, New
Mexico, to attend the annual UFO gig – which is actually a
collection/selection of more than a few events, activities and fun for
the family. It was a packed weekend, with thousands of people turning up
to take part in the festivities. The figures are hardly surprising: it
was, after all, the 70th anniversary of the crash of…well…take your
pick: a UFO, a weather-balloon, time-travelers, a Soviet device, or…the
list goes on and on.
And on. The conference that I spoke at
(along with Greg Bishop, Jack Brewer, Dr. Michael Heiser, Joe Jordan,
and Guy Malone – who organized the event) provoked a great deal of
feedback from the audience. The title of the conference: “70 Years
Later: Modern Challenges to the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis.” I was
speaking on the subject of my recently-published book,
The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, and I gave my lecture twice – on June 30 and July 2.
What I found particularly interesting about the entire affair was the
local media’s coverage of the 70th anniversary. There’s no doubt that
the city of Roswell derives a great deal of income from the tourist
industry – and not just at the time of the annual gigs, but throughout
the entire year, too. Most of that same tourism revolves around the
alien angle of the controversial incident. In light of that, I was
somewhat surprised – albeit in a good and positive way – by the coverage
that the city’s
Roswell Daily Record
newspaper gave to the celebrations. It was on June 30 that the first,
major article appeared in the newspaper – specifically on the
non-alien theories for whatever it really was that happened outside of Roswell in the summer of 1947.
And here's the link to the article...