UFO Sightings During The Pandemic

Above, my reprint copy of the famous "flying saucer" front
page of the Roswell Daily Record. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The Roswell Daily Record, the newspaper made famous in 1947 when it headlined the finding of a crashed "flying saucer" in an area ranch, has an article on UFO sightings during the pandemic.

Unfortunately, the pandemic forced the cancelation of the Roswell UFO Festival (I attended the 2018 festival) this year.

They wrote:

Sometimes a walk down memory lane is more appealing when it’s lined with little green men and the path is lit by otherworldly lights from above. Figuratively speaking.

That might sound like a nightmare in some places. But looking back over the past six months, the absence of those things locally — at least in their usual volume — has contributed to making this a year to forget in Roswell, at least so far.

We’ve become accustomed here to a fairly high level of UFO-related discussion and activity.

As ground zero for perhaps the world’s most famous UFO-related incident and decades of debate and analysis related to that; home to the International UFO Museum and Research Center; and host of a world-famous UFO Festival … well, it would be odd if Roswell’s UFO-related activity didn’t exceed that of a typical U.S. community. Safe to say, in most years, that’s the case.

But the pandemic has forced all manner of adjustments — cancellation this year of the annual festival with its lineup of speakers, thousands of visitors and attendant spotlight; and state-mandated closure for a time of the Museum and Research Center. It’s made for less discussion on the topic of extraterrestrial life in 2020 than we’d experience most years in Roswell.

Above, the famous Roswell welcome sign. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

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