New Mexico L.O.W.F.I

Archive for May, 2010

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This seems rather stupid to me.  The festival is a major source of income for local businesses.

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) – Roswell city officials plan to review whether to use lodging tax revenues to fund the UFO Festival beyond this year. The City Council has approved a preliminary budget for fiscal year 2011 that doesn’t include any funding for next year’s festival.

The UFO Festival Committee currently has a $150,000 budget for this summer’s event. Mayor Del Jurney says decisions will be coming soon about the best ways to utilize city funds.

He says the city wants to support the UFO Festival, but officials are simply making sure money being spent is appropriate and properly allocated.

Councilor Dusty Huckabee calls spending $150,000 of city funds “outrageous.” He suggests cutting the fund to $40,000 to $50,000, saying it would still be enough to put on the festival.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

ANGEL FIRE — An intensive ten-month investigation of anomalies in a local hay field indicates we are truly not alone, and that UFOs have landed in the area.

New Mexico MUFON Assistant Director Dee Gragg will present the first public report of the investigation at 2 p.m., Saturday (May 29) in the Angel Fire Community Center, 71 Valley Road.

A phone call in late 2008 sparked the investigation, when owners of a ranch near Angel Fire contacted

Alliance Studying Paranormal Experiences (ASPE) to request examination of large unexplainable ground formations found during autumn mowing of their hay field.

According to the ranch owners, the formations were not there when the field was sown earlier in the year.

Initially, the ranch owners believed the formations were crop circles, but after receiving photos of the site from ASPE director Janet Sailor, MUFON suspected the anomalies were caused by unidentified craft landing in the field.

Gragg was assigned to search for evidence, and formed a team to investigate the site.

The ranch owners also reported seeing both stationary and moving lights in the sky at night during the summer of 2008.

After initially requesting anonymity, the ranch owners have agreed to be present Saturday to corroborate Gragg’s report, which will include a slide show of photographs and evidence.

General admission is $20. ASPE member admission is $10. Press passes may be requested by emailing info@aspefiles.org or by calling 575-377-2667.

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News story and video here, along with pdf versions of the FBI documents.

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Thanks to Iggy, I have finally realized the full and very useful concept of pages.  It means I can list events well in advanced and have them always in the sidebar on the main NM LOWFI page where they are easy to find!

So in the top of the sidebar (and below the banner) you will find Robert Hastings fine articles (hopefully with some new articles soon), along with a section just for events.  I will be updating that not only with conferences, but also meetings of the Albuquerque/Rio Rancho UFO and Paranormal forum, the Los Lunas Dowser meetings and ASPE events — pretty much anything fortean related that is going on.  Aside from NM events, you will probably in the future also find events happening in Colorado.  Since there is no official Colorado LOWFI page yet and I kind of consider Colorado my second home I will post events happening there too — Colorado is as close to Albuquerque as the southern portion of NM, so why not?  I may also start posting a few CO news items in the blog as well.

Tomorrow (sat, 5/22) from 12:30 to 2:30.  You can find out more in the events section of sidebar.

I will likely not be at the meeting because that time is quite early for me, but I will try to meet up with everyone at Applebees following the meeting.

Read about it here

Nothing really fortean about this, other than Dennis has been in some fortean movies.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – It’s “Dennis Hopper Day” in New Mexico.

Gov. Bill Richardson says he declared Monday as “Dennis Hopper Day” to pay tribute to the actor and his contributions to the state, including his support of the local film industry. Monday marks Hopper’s 74th birthday.

Richardson calls Hopper an outstanding actor and a fine New Mexican.

Hopper has appeared in nearly 200 films and television shows over six decades, including the iconic counterculture film “Easy Rider” – some of which was filmed in New Mexico.

The governor’s proclamation says that through his promotion of the arts in New Mexico, Hopper has inspired and enticed other artists, actors, writers and musicians to visit, work and live in the Land of Enchantment.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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