Devil's Tower UFO Rendezvous

HULETT, WYO. (KOTA TV) - Something out of this world is coming to Hulett, Wyo., and the Devil’s Tower Area, so if you’re a UFO enthusiast you better save the dates.

By www.kotatv.com 8-29-17

September 14-16th, 2017, will be the First Annual Devil’s Tower UFO Rendezvous.

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‘Largest UFO Convention … Chock Full O’ Space Alien Booths, Blowup Dolls, Little Green Men Sculptures’

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Fish in a barrel again

Last week, The O’Reilly Factor made room for a five-minute clip of something called “Watters World.” (See below) Relatively unfamiliar with the Fox News culture, De Void had never heard of Jesse Watters. His forte, as subsequent research suggests, involves sticking a microphone in strangers’ faces and letting them make idiots of themselves, which is almost as easy as squashing caterpillars. This installment finds the Ed Helms wannabe shooting fish in a barrel in Scottsdale, Ariz., where the International UFO Congress went down last month. Up and running for 25 years and billing itself as “The

By Billy Cox De Void 3-11-16

Guinness World Record holding largest UFO convention,” the IUC is what you’d call a target-rich environment. Chock full o’ space alien booths, blowup dolls, Little Green Men sculptures, and visually conspicuous abductees eager to share their adventures, the lobby is jammed with sideshow cash cows that help pay the rent. Like, who else is going to help pay the rent at a UFO convention? Apple? General Dynamics? Taco Bell? The predictable result, of course, is that few journalists, particularly the standup blow-drys, can make it past the eye candy and into the lecture halls for the meat ‘n taters.

One could argue that mainstream media coverage of the IUC serves as a template for America’s broader relationship with The Great Taboo, where clichés, sound bites, and sideways glances are plenty sufficient for diversionary weekend fare. Miss something that truly freaked out officialdom? Never mind, we got a 20-second seg from a dude who got butt-probed by Reptoids and has the illustrations to prove it. In fact, a Phoenix station’s treatment of the IUC gathering in 2014 so perfectly mirrored the current state of inquiry, De Void invented the Jessica Flores Disembodied Head Award for UFO Journalism in tribute. Unfortunately, Jesse Watters is ineligible because the equally clueless Jessica Flores actually thought she was doing real reporting.

Watters certainly isn’t that naïve. He walks into the joint with the mischievous twinkle-eyed certitude of a guy who knows he’s the first man on Earth who ever thought of doing a number on goofy looking UFO devotees. If he’d bothered to stick his head into the auditorium, he might’ve come away with a story about truly mystifying UFO footage captured by federal border patrol agents and the FOIA clampdown on radar records. That angle certainly would’ve been news to Fox viewers. But Watters knows his audience and goes for the obvious instead. He interviews two Donald Trump-supporting abductees, one of whom is tie-dyed and pink-haired, and the other claims she was whisked off to the moon, where she confronted a body snatcher that looks like a giant praying mantis. In case his viewers don’t get the satire – it’s Fox, after all – Watters punches it up with sight gags from “Dr. Strangelove,” “Mars Attacks,” “The Honeymooners,” etc., along with Trump himself proclaiming “I love the poorly educated!” And as Watters informs another Trump-supporter — famous “Fire in the Sky” abductee Travis Walton — “I think the aliens want Hillary. That’s why they sent James Carville down to Earth.” In other words, it’s one knee-slapper after another.

De Void would like to think, given recent efforts by Clinton campaign advisor John Podesta to reframe The Great Taboo as the government transparency and accountability issue it’s been all along, that “Watters World” stunts might someday evolve into something a tad more original and enterprising. The odds are against it, but who knows? Once upon a time the Berlin Wall was as immutable as a geological formation.

Ohio State political science professor Alexander Wendt, co-author of an academic analysis of the sociological pressures arrayed against authentic inquiry into the mystery, thinks Podesta’s initiative might pay off in the long run.

“To me,” he writes in an email to De Void, “it exemplifies the power of human agency against even the strongest societal discourses, like the UFO taboo, and I hope it succeeds. That said, I’m doubtful that even full disclosure will reveal anything more than the depth of the government’s ignorance about what UFOs are, and as such it won’t resolve the question in favor of the ET hypothesis by any means.

“But still, even if Podesta’s focus on disclosure is a strategic dead-end, it will help ‘normalize’ the issue, making it possible for reporters and politicians to talk about UFOs in a non-sneering way, just like they would about any other topic, and that’s all to the good insofar as it helps change the broader culture surrounding this issue.”

Well, Fox News is Fox News. But maybe some of the others could get there if the lobbies of UFO conferences weren’t so much damned fun.

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Inhabited Sky UFO Event with Chris Aubeck, Jacques Vallee | VIDEO – Madrid, Spain

By La Casa Encendida
Vimeo
5-27-15

     The space around Earth is not a vacuum, is full of expectations, fantasies and now is also where our technology, which reaches orbit, it emits signs of life and eventually falls as inert evidence of the presence and curiosity humans.

Are we alone in the universe? Have we been visited beings from other galaxies? The answers to these questions are still debated, but the impact they have had on our culture is undeniable. In "Heaven suitcase", alongside the exhibition activity ARSTRONOMY six experts in the field will provide a unique and enlightening about whether we have visited beings from other worlds perspective.

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18.30: Theo Paijmans, ufologist, Dutch author and editor, examine the social impact of spaceships and aliens in comics and literature of the early twentieth century.

19.15: Nigel Watson, author of the recent book UFOs World War (2015), tell us how advances in aviation and space travel were published in the media and art and how it shapes our view of them.

20.00: Jacques Vallee, astrophysicist and ufologist computer world renowned, will talk about the importance and impact of anomalous phenomena observed since ancient times.

21.00 Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck, questions and debate.
Of anomalous phenomena observed since ancient times.

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NBC News Reports From 2015 International UFO Congress | VIDEO

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By NBC News
2-24-15



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The End of UFOs

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By Mark Jacobson
The Daily Intelligencer
8-9-14

"Ufology has apparently lost its grip on the public imagination, and has been demoted to a neo-cult status"

      As the news of the day pulsed along the once seemingly unthinkable pathways of the information industry — boots on the ground in Gaza, slide show updates on Mila Kunis’s pregnancy — adherents of an earlier future gathered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The occasion was the annual conference of the Mutual Unidentified Flying Objects Network, which, in accordance with this year’s theme, “UFOs and the Media,” was focused not on the ephemera of the news cycle but rather on the eternalities of what several in attendance called “the biggest single story in history,” i.e., the existence of extraterrestrial life on Earth and the cover-up of that presence by the United States government, the corporate structure, and their oblivious and/or sold-out lackeys in the mainstream press.

While this year’s symposium attracted a reported 400 people, this was a far cry from the thousands who attended the MUFON conference in the late 1970s, after Close Encounters of the Third Kind introduced extraterrestrials to the mainstream moviegoer. That was at a time when a lot of people actually believed that these mysterious things from the sky represented the biggest single thing in history. Since then, despite the recent astronomical findings of the so-called “Goldilocks zone” that postulates sentient life is possible throughout the galaxy, ufology has apparently lost its grip on the public imagination, and has been demoted to a neo-cult status. For the populace at large space is no longer the place. Not that this mattered to those gathered at Cherry Hill. Used to marginalization, they were resolved to keep watching the skies. . . .

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Lt Colonel Philip J. Corso Describes Alien Bodies; Budd Hopkins Takes Him To Task | VIDEO

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Philip Corso Interview with Budd Hopkins,
Filmed by Carol Rainey

By Kevin Randle A Different Perspective 2-5-14

     Nearly everyone agrees that many of the tales told by Philip J. Corso are not grounded in reality. When challenged, he often backtracked, blamed his co-author, or said that he hadn’t seen the galleys (we call them page proofs now) of the book. In any case, he has little credibility… especially after the great switching of the Introduction caper (meaning that Strom Thurman wrote the introduction for a different book, and yes, I have even more evidence for that… In fact, in a document entitled Alien Source: The Roswell UFO Crash and Today’s Technological Miracles which was a proposal for his book The Day After Roswell, it said, “Sen. Strom Thurmond wrote a glowing introduction to Col. Corso’s first book, I Walked With Giants: My Career in Military Intelligence.” But, of course, there was no such book and the “glowing introduction” became part of The Day After Roswell. Bait and Switch? Probably more like there was no first book and they had a perfectly good introduction. Why get rid of it? Just put it in the other book. ).

Carol Rainey filmed an interview between Corso and Budd Hopkins made at one of the UFO conferences held at San Marino in 1998. Hopkins and Corso sat in the lobby, discussing what Budd thought of as some errors in the story told by Corso. He was concerned about the lack of corroborative witnesses and that few people were named. Budd wanted to be able to find some of those Corso allegedly hand bits of alien debris to so that he could verify the tale. Corso makes it clear that he was rarely, if ever (which means it wasn’t exactly clear) that he met with those scientists, engineers and industrialists. Someone else put the debris into their hands…

It is interesting to see how Corso deals with some tough questions. We have Carol to thank for this short glimpse into the tales told by Corso.

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A "Bizarre Horror Show" at a UFO Conference

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By Robert Sheaffer badufos.blogspot.com 9-21-13

     
From August 9 to 11, 2013 "Contact in the Desert" was held at Joshua Tree Retreat Center, in Joshua Tree, California. Fortunately it was held indoors, because outdoors the temperature hovered around 110 degrees. Among the "luminaries" lecturing were George Noory, Steven Greer, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos [aliens!], David Wilcock, Jim Marrs, William Henry, Michael Salla, Jason Martell, David Sereda, Richard Dolan, and Travis Walton.

But not all of the heat was outside. A page on Unknown Country, the website of Whitley and Anne Strieber, has an article dated September 5, titled "William Describes a Bizarre Horror Show at a UFO Conference." It concerns William Henry, a promoter of woo who lectures about ancient Egyptian "stargates" and is a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM and Ancient Aliens.

William Henry tells a horrifying story of imprisonment of the audience at the Contact in the Desert Conference August 9--11. He says that David Wilcock came with a bodyguard, and that Steven Greer arrived with a whole group of bodyguards, who proceeded to lock the doors and allow nobody in our out during his presentation. If this happened, it was illegal, and we urge all UFO conference attendees to demand that they not be imprisoned during any performance for any reason. . . .

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Epitome of The Aztec UFO Symposium 07

By Katee McClure
3-31-07

     I have been involved with the Aztec UFO Symposium on and off since the year 2000. When I moved to Aztec, in September of 1998 I immediately fell in love with the "small town" atmosphere, so you can imagine my amazement when I heard there was going to be a UFO conference in town just 6 months after I moved here. Wow, I thought, I really did move to the right place!

I have been personally interested in the notion that "we are not alone in the universe" since I was a young teen. Back then, in the 60s, information about the subject was not as easily obtainable as it is today, especially with the advent of the Internet.

From the very first symposium I attended here in Aztec I was impressed with the caliber of the speakers who attended. Generally speaking, most of the speakers have been serious researchers with plenty of facts to back up their research.

So, as the event planner for this years 10th anniversary, we followed suit in our pursuit of presenters. When I say "we" I mean Scott Ramsey & Randy Barnes. These two gentlemen did all the legwork involved in procuring and researching our

On a personal note - we had limitations this year in that all the speakers we contacted had to be within driving distance of Aztec, New Mexico. The reason being that our initial funding was cut short by 5,000 dollars this year, that 5,000 had been used, in the past, as preliminary seed money. So, our thinking this year was it would be cheaper for us to pay gas mileage to our speakers than it would be to pay for their airfare. As it turned out it was a blessing in disguise! Who would have known that so many qualified researchers lived in such close proximity to Aztec! The only exception was Farah Yurdozu who was flown out here by UFO Magazine.

All of our presenters, Dennis Balthaser, Roy Forbes, Mike Fortson, David Hatcher Childress, Christopher O'Brien, Wendelle Stevens, Travis Walton and Farah Yurdozu generously donated their time to help with this library fundraiser. Boy did I take advantage of that! I shuffled them around so much at our Meet N' Greet dinner that I'm sure they became dizzy! The dinner was held at the Library with about ten different grouping of people. Each speaker visited with all ten of the groupings in order for our attendees to have the chance to chat with them on a personal level before the lectures began the following morning. That alone would have exhausted most, but the speakers were all troopers and remained good-natured throughout the evening. The audience response to this intimate setting was extremely favorable. Not too many conferences are able provide this level of personal attention.

I really can't say enough wonderful things about our speakers. I shuffled them around at the dinner Friday night, raffled them off for lunch on Saturday, got them up early on Sunday for breakfast and had them all stick around for the final panel discussion on Sunday afternoon which marked the end of the Symposium. (The panel discussion allowed members of the audience to ask questions of the speakers.)

Each and every speaker was professional AND amiable. What are the odds of that with any randomly chosen eight individuals!

This symposium was a great success due to the speakers, the twenty volunteers who pulled it all together and the fantastic group of attendees who numbered about 180.

Next year will mark the the 60th anniversary of the Aztec UFO crash, and plans are already in the works to line up next years speakers thanks to our "Slave Master" Scott Ramsey.

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Aztec Prepares for Invasion: UFO Symposium Set for Next Weekend

By Lindsay Whitehurst
The Daily Times
3-18-07

     AZTEC — UFOs are not typical dinner table conversation for most couples. Scott and Suzanne Ramsey are not most couples.

"He's working on a book, so it is (something we talk about) more," Suzanne Ramsey said. "It's an ongoing pursuit."

Her husband, Scott Ramsey, has spent 20 years researching the alleged UFO crash site in Aztec. He's attended the UFO Symposium in Aztec almost every year, and spoken there a few times.

Next weekend's symposium, held March 23-25, will be the 10th for the annual event. Held at the Aztec Boys and Girls Club, the symposium will start with a dinner on Friday and follow with lectures on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $25; military, EMT and police get in free. For more information, call (505) 334-7657 or visit aztecufo.com

It was Scott Ramsey who convinced Dennis Balthaser, a speaker this year and every other since the symposium began, that something did happen in Aztec.

"I had some reservations about Aztec for many years, but ... it really looks like something did happen in 1948," he said.

A UFO research concentrating on Roswell, Area 51, underground bases and the great pyramids of Giza (though he doesn't necessarily think aliens built the pyramids, they may have provided the technology), Balthaser will speak on "Roswell: Then and Now."

There are some similarities between the two incidents: Both the Roswell and Aztec crashes were reported to have bodies, both were in New Mexico, but the overarching theme, Balthaser, is the biggest similarity.

"It's all part of the UFO program the government has, in not revealing any information they have and lying about it," he said.

For the Ramseys, the aliens were what brought them together, so to speak. Originally from Farmington, Suzanne got interested in the symposium when, about seven years ago, she interviewed several speakers for her radio show.

She was impressed by "the caliber of speakers they were having — highly educated, articulate, knowledgeable people that had done some really good research," she said. " I was really taken by that."

She got involved on the organizational end of things, and eventually met Scott. She had helped put him up to be raffled off as a date for a fund raiser, only to see her own name drawn.

But when she looked at the winning ticket, her name was misspelled. Family and friends had purchased 60 tickets in addition to the five she paid for to ensure she'd end up as his date.

Though the Ramsey's won't be attending this year (they've since moved to North Carolina), their scientific approach to the extraterrestrial subject is what the symposium is all about organizers say.

"Mainstream researchers deal with fact," Katee McClure, who is organizing the symposium, said.

A fund-raising event for the Aztec Library, the symposium is based on an alleged UFO crash in Aztec's Hart Canyon in 1948. In the crash, one of four in the New Mexico area, 16 charred "humanoid" bodies were said to have been found inside a saucer.

"I think (the Aztec crash) has been shrouded in mystery since the beginning," Scott said.

Several agencies, including the FBI, Air Force and CIA, kept files on the case, he said, referring to hundreds of pages of government documents he said he's obtained.

"If the event was written off as a hoax, why were all those government agencies keeping open files on it?" he said.

Eight speakers will appear at the symposium this year, from Farah Yurdozu, a Turkish journalist and medium who covers abductions and close encounters, to Wendelle Stevens, a retired U.S. Air Force officer worked on a documentary about military personnel who say they helped clean up UFO crash sites.

There will also be tours of the crash site and other activities

The overall theme is thoughtful consideration.

"I don't think everything that people see is a UFO," Suzanne Ramsey said. "I think sometimes people get caught up in the fact that it's everything or nothing; it's very polarized. (I think) life is more middle of the road than that."

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