David’s short film Invisible Men Invade Earth will be screened at Roswell Cosmic-Con and Film Fest in Roswell, New Mexico this month.
A thousand thanks to our friend, Lee, who told David about the call for submissions, and to David’s wife, who said, “Submit it submit it submit it!” (Wife wants to get out of Austin.)
That’s about all I know, except that some events will take place at the McDonald’s pictured at the left.
Why Roswell? Because in July 1947, a press release written by the public information officer at the Roswell Army Air Field reported, under orders of his base commander, that the Army had in its possession a flying saucer that had crashed on a local ranch. The Associated Press picked up the story. The next day a second press release ordered by a higher-ranking officer stated that the flying saucer was actually just a weather balloon.
That might have been the end of it if civilians hadn’t found the wreckage in the first place. Witnesses told stories of four alien creatures, one of whom survived. A Roswell mortician received phone calls from the air base morgue regarding how to preserve bodies. The military asserted pressure, and witnesses stopped talking.
Around 1980, a UFO researcher discovered the incident and started looking for witnesses. He found a number of them, including the public information officer who wrote the press releases. From there, the story took off.
That’s a summary of the story as it appears on Roswell’s International UFO Museum. Other sources suggest there’s more. Or less, as the case may be. At any rate, Roswell and flying saucers are now irretrievably linked.
Hence the Roswell Cosmic-Con and Film Festival. And the screening of Invisible Men Invade Earth.
And the Davises invading Roswell.
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Note: In her book Area 51, Annie Jacobsen’s history of the top-secret military base in Nevada, the author repeats a story she was told about the Roswell Incident. She states the story could not be substantiated and does not present it as fact. But starring Stalin and Dr. Mengele, it fits right in with the rest of the Roswell lore.
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M. K. Waller 
congrats, congrats – another road trip to a premiere!
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Yes. It looks as if there’ll be a lot of comic book artists and actors who play aliens and who knows what else. I had no idea retirement would be so stimulating.
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I wonder
sometimes
if the
aliens
who visited in July one
year before I came
alive
seeded this blue orb
with such as me…
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That’s a very interesting thought. If they did, there will be people at this convention who would give their eyeteeth to visit with you.
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Congratulations, David! And to his wife who said, Submit it! Submit it!
Roswell continues to fascinate, precisely because we never got the whole story.
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David will appreciate the congratulations. As for fascination–wouldn’t it be sad to learn that, without a doubt, it was just a weather balloon?
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Very cool! Congratulations to David!
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Thank you. I’ll pass your message along. He’ll appreciate the thought, as do I.
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It sounds like a great road trip. It reminds me of all those black-and-white movies made in the fifties about strange mutated things in the desert, like big scorpions that pick up moving freight trains. But since you’re going by car, this won’t happen to you.
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