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The city of Roswell says it’s serious about the annual UFO Festival and finally approved funding for it late Wednesday.

The city council held a special workshop to approve a budget for this fiscal year which included $150,000 for the controversial UFO Festival.

That is the same amount as last year that was taken out of the lodgers tax fund.

There was some concern that the city might not fund the festival because it was not included in the preliminary budget. At that time, the city council wanted to look at whether the money was being spent wisely before funding it again.

The final numbers from the most recent UFO festival will not be ready until next month.

“We’ve got to be responsible to our citizens and also to the people coming to visit us… But I’ll guarantee I’m going to be watching it like a hawk, and I think you’ll see everyone at the table watching like a hawk, you’ve seen me yell and scream before, and I’ll yell and scream again,” said City Councilor Dusty Huckabee.

City officials says they will fully support the festival and that is why they decided to approve the funding before seeing the final numbers.

Video here

I was at Trader Joe’s yesterday and noticed that they had Roswell Alien Ale.   I didn’t buy any because it is probably some evil plot by the aliens.  I did snap a photo though and a few people in TJ’s looked at me like I was totally weird, but I am used to that.

Proof I have been at least somewhat involved in this far too long — the first and only time I went to a Roswell UFO fest was for the 50th anniversary and it is now the 63rd.

Anyhow, read about the budget for the fest here.

I love The Man Who Fell to Earth and just finished watching it for the about the zillionith time.

Although, basically the story is still good and doesn’t seem totally hokey after all these years — I still like all the NM filming and very vintage shots even more.  For example there is a shot of David Bowie by the Rio Grande (here in Albuquerque), it looks similar to now, but there are no houses or buildings in the shot.  You also get shots of Civic Plaza in Albuquerque, Fenton Lake in Jemez, Madrid and just about 3 minutes from my house at the cement plant in Tijeras.  During the day the cement plant doesn’t look that great, but at night when it has all those lights –  I was told as a child and partly believed that it was a castle.  OK, at least I wanted to believe.

So if you want a story filmed in NM, about an alien that came to earth and was totally screwed (so far as why he came) this is the story for you!

Also, it was during filming The Man Who Fell to Earth in NM that David Bowie saw a UFO!

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.)

The Plot: In Silver City, Arizona, Apache Indians and Western settlers must lay their differences aside when an alien spaceship crash lands in their city.

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig.

More about the film here

Casting calls should be listed sometime soon here

2010 PARANORMAL SYMPOSIUM AND FILM FESTIVAL
AT ANGEL FIRE RESORT
ENTRY DEADLINE JULY 1, 2010

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Case Number: 23170
Log Number: US-05062010-0016
Submitted Date: 2010-05-06 21:24 GMT
Event Date: 1981-11-30 00:00 GMT
City: Dulce
Region: New Mexico
Country: US
Longitude: -107.232
Latitude: 36.6026
Shape: Disc
Description:

Mid 80’s Dulce, NM my self a law enforcemnt officer w/Jicarilla Apache Police. Background Police Science/Forensic Western NM Univ., Silver City. Had gone to graveyard shift at midnight w/ another officer and diapatcher. Immediately went to a single females home with the other shift and was informed that a small being was in her house at the foot of the bed with a box shining a laser like red light at her, the other officers knowing it was there shift change left without further investigation. Making fun mind you. She was obviously shaken up and I did notice some electrical malfunctions within her home and her animals, dogs and horses were uneasy. Throughout the night I continued to check on her, once in the early morning I was called to her home, her house was dark and as I entered I could hear her down the hall crying for help. I was informed again of visitors with a light in her home and it seemed strangly quiet. No one to be found in the home or area. In the early morning when the sun comes up when their is light I drove up to the home to make a check I noticed some movement in the brush and trees just west of her home about 15 yards away. I still don’t understand what I may have saw, but soon after as I was stepping out of my unit three oval craft in a triangular pattern about the size of a three bedroom home lifted off from behind some juniper trees just 30 yards at the most taking off silently without noise/down drafts, then turn a bright white light and slow went in the direction east towards Chama.NM slowly gain altitude. My other Officer and Dispatcher was witness to this also. Shortly after I heard on the State Police Frequency from Chama about those UFO.s that were being called in to them. I felt completely helpless as a Officer to help someone who asked for help and was unable to assist and protect her in her time of need. It still bothers me today. S/GJ. (I spoke with Norio in Dulce, NM during the Dulce Base Conference also.)
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PETA’s new Roswell billboard.  Read more about it here.

Phil Schneider, supposedly one of three people who survived the 1979 Dulce firefight between the large Greys, US intelligence and military at the Dulce underground base, was found dead on January 1996, due to what was said to be an execution style murder. He was found dead in his apartment with a piano wire wrapped around his neck. According to some sources, it appeared that he repeatedly suffered torture before he was finally killed. You can read his story here – The Mysterious Life and Death of Philip Schneider. There have been numerous questions surrounding Schneider, in particular his motives and state of mind. Seven months prior to his death, he stated the following during a lecture:

“To give you an overview of basically what I am, I started off and went through engineering school. Half of my schooling was in that field and I built up a reputation for being a geological engineer, as well as a structural engineer with both military and aerospace applications. I have helped build two main bases in the United States that have some significance as far as what is called the New World Order. The first base is the one at Dulce, New Mexico.”

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