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Advocates included a former astronaut and of course, Stanton Friedman, the ‘Grand UFOlogist’. Skeptics noted that as no ‘authentic artifact’ had been revealed, the ‘secret’ of Roswell remained undiscovered.
In 2011, plans to build a big new UFO museum in Roswell may have crashed. The non-profit museum attracts tens of thousands of visitors every year, pumping millions of dollars into the local economy, but times are tough and the five-year project could take even longer or it might not happen at all.
“Our new building is on temporary indefinite, time frame I don’t know, it is on hold, we still have the whole block and we still have all the plans“, the Museum Director said.
“It’s payback time!” a state governor once said before tangling with a ‘space alien’.
For more than 30 years, the Roswell story has been the wellspring of dozens of Hollywood revenue streams, movies and TV shows that have grossed billions. Turnabout being fair play, let the studios invest in ‘the whole block’ with models and miniatures of ‘flying saucers’, and spaceships from ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ to ‘Close Encounters’, from every interpretation of Wells’ Martian war machines to the latest ‘alien invasion’ blockbuster.
Life-size figures of Klaatu & Gort, The Thing (both versions), ‘I Married a Monster from Outer Space’, ‘Alien’, ‘Predator’, and ‘The Men in Black’ Add in the latest ‘animatronics’ and sci-fi video game prototypes and The Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center would become what it’s been all along: The ULTIMATE science fiction Museum.
This tiny town in the middle of nowhere, yet in the center of everything, more than hallowed ground or an sf landmark, Roswell makes us imagine, as written by Rod Serling for ‘Moses’ himself: “There has to be something out there better than Man. Has to be!”
‘There’s Atlantis and Shangri-La, OZ and Krypton, Neverland and Wonderland, Heaven & Hell, and Roswell‘, penned the unread poet, ‘And only Roswell’s real.’
In May of 2011, the Czech Republic celebrated the 60th birthday of the launch of Radio Free Europe broadcasts and the ‘Crusade for Freedom’ across and over the Iron Curtain. For 5 years, a total of nearly 600,000 balloons carried more than 300M leaflets, posters, books, and other printed matter to nearly a dozen different countries. In this Roswellian Age, one can send more propaganda to more people the world over in five minutes from a cell phone.
The ULTIMATE Invasion lives on!
The Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center is open seven days a week from 9AM to 5PM. General Admission is $5 for adults, $2 for children 5-15. Military (Must have ID Card or be in uniform) and seniors over 65, $3.
The CIA thanks you for your patronage. We vets of USAF Security Service salute you!
From Stories for a Coffee Waitress yet to be published.
Thanks to:
Pyscops Dissemination
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Of myths and missiles: the truth about John F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap
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Popular Roswell Myths
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Sci Fi Channel Challenges Government Secrecy
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