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| Above, yours truly with a couple of friends at the 2018 Roswell UFO Festival. |
It looks like there will be a UFO Festival in Roswell New Mexico this year.
Thanks to the coronavirus, last year's festival was cancelled. But the Roswell city officials say there will be a festival this year.
According to the Roswell Daily Record:
Plans for the 2021 UFO Festival are underway, and the city is preparing to restart its tourism marketing next month with a goal of increasing “heads in beds” and the resulting revenue.
City officials discussed those plans during Thursday morning’s Finance Committee meeting with Chairman Jason Perry and committee members Jacob Roebuck and Margaret Kennard. Vice-chair Juan Oropesa was absent.
In the public comments section toward the end of the 30-minute meeting, Perry asked Public Affairs Director Juanita Jennings about the festival, which was canceled last year due to the pandemic.
“Yes, there will be a festival this year,” Jennings said, explaining the event company the city hired to manage the festival, In Depth Events, had a team here late last month. The festival is scheduled for July 2-4, according to the Public Affairs Department.
The Roswell UFO Festival celebrates the crash of a flying saucer in the area in 1947.
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