15,000 PEOPLE TURN OUT TO UFO EVENT IN ROSWELL

The town of Roswell in southeastern New Mexico was a buzz of activity last weekend as an estimated fifteen thousand visitors descended on the beautiful small town for a four-day UFO festival.

Roswell achieved notoriety back in 1947 when it became the center of one of the most mysterious and compelling UFO events in US history. It all began when a local rancher named William Brazel stumbled on bizarre debris in the desert which appeared to be the remnants of a terrible air crash involving what some witnesses what some witnesses described as a flying saucer. The authorities initially confirmed that the object that had been discovered was indeed a flying saucer and then promptly changed their story, claiming that the debris was from a fallen weather balloon.

This explanation did not convince the general public who have long believed that Roswell was the site of a UFO crash that the government attempted to cover up. Since then Roswell has essentially become a by-word for the UFO phenomenon, which the local landscape reflects completely. Today, Roswell boasts a flourishing business in UFO themed gift shops, museums, and even restaurants.

Given its history, it’s only natural that the town’s UFO festival would be very well attended by visitors from all over the United States. Tourists to the town passed the time by buying up some of the alien memorabilia available from Roswell’s many gift shops and street vendors and munching on themed desserts such as the so-called ‘Martian turds’.

But it wasn’t all fun and games at the UFO Festival. Experts were also among those who descended upon Roswell and held a number of fascinating panel discussions focussing on various topics such as the comparison between aliens and demons and the logic associated with aligning the UFO phenomenon with Biblical scripture. In addition to this, festival goers were also granted an audience with the famed UFO researcher Travis Walton who has made a number of sensational claims about spending time with aliens back in 1975 and whose story was the inspiration for the 1993 film, ‘Fire in the Sky’.