2019 Gallup UFO Film Festival

Above, Gallup UFO Film Festival founder Chuck Wade
 giving his presentation. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

What better things to do than going to a UFO film festival in a small town?

Last night, I headed into Gallup (population 21,000) for the annual Gallup UFO Film Festival. I attended it last year and found it interesting.

Above, a slide on a UFO crash near San Antonio, New Mexico. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

It was better attended this year since there were no rumors that it was cancelled as there was last year. Besides the evening program, they had free coffee, hot dogs and chips & salsa. The film festival runs through tonight.

Above, a slide of found UFO crash debris. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

A film started the evening on different UFO incidents in New Mexico. One incident it covered caught my interest. It was of an "armada" of UFOs over Farmington, New Mexico in March 1950. Farmington is about 120 miles north of Gallup, New Mexico.

According to DGO:

According to decades-old information, the story goes like this: For three days in March 1950, hundreds of flying saucer-like objects floated over Farmington. The Farmington Daily Times newspaper was flooded with calls from citizens who witnessed the UFOs. They ran a giant headline, which screamed, “Huge ‘Saucer’ Armada Jolts Farmington,” across the top of the paper in bold, all-caps letters. “Crafts Seen By Hundreds,” another headline read. 

“Fully half of this town’s population still is certain today that it saw space ships or some strange aircraft — hundreds of them zooming through the skies yesterday. Estimates of the number ranged from ‘several’ to more that (sic) 500. Whatever they were, they caused a major sensation in this community, which lies only 110 air miles northwest of the huge Los Alamos Atomic installation.” 

The article went on to claim that the objects, which one witness estimated to be about the size of a B-29 airplane, seemed “to play tag high in the air,” and raced across the sky at speeds estimated to be about 1,000 miles an hour.

Above, a map of 7 New Mexico UFO crash sites. Phot by Armand Vaquer.

Following the film, a presentation about seven (that's right, seven) UFO crashes in New
Mexico was presented by the founder of the Gallus UFO Film Festival, Chuck Wade. The presentation included slides.

Above, a statement from one who saw alien bodies in a crashed UFO. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

A photo of "honeycomb" crash debris was interesting. Wade said that each "honeycomb" was filled with tiny wiring. He said nobody knows what the material was used for.

Above, Zuni elder Clifford Mahooty gives his presentation. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

After Wade, Clifford Mahooty, elder of the Zuni Pueblo, spoke on UFOs and Southwest Indigenous Culture.

For ten bucks admission, the Gallup UFO Film Festival was an enjoyable diversion for a Friday night.