Exeter UFO Festival mixes education with fun

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Mixing UFO education with fun sounds like winning formula for one New England town. A most interesting speaker line-up has been assembled in New Hampshire for the Exeter UFO Festival on September 5, as well as special events for the entire family.

The speaker series at Exeter Town Hall will run simultaneously with festival events at various locations around town. It all begins at 8 a.m.

First a quick overview of the day - and then more details below.

SPEAKERS

8:15-9:30 a.m.—Ted Loder, Ph.D.: “The Disclosure Project: UFO Secrecy and our Future”

9:45-11:00 a.m.—Peter Geremia: September 3, 1965 “Incident at Exeter” and NH UFOs”

11:15-12:30 p.m.—Kathleen Marden: “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience”

12:30-1:30 p.m.—Lunch break (on your own).

1:30-2:45 p.m.—Peter Robbins: “The Power of Ridicule vs. A Most Uncomfortable Truth: Why We Need to Take UFOs Seriously”

3-4:15 p.m.—Bill Foster: “The Black Triangle Alien Abduction”

4:30-5:30 p.m.—Panel Discussion

Food and drinks outside the Town Hall by the Kiwanis.

Schedule of Festival Events

8:30 a.m.—UFO Children’s Charity Art Show (Town Hall)

9 a.m.—Buckets of Chalk—ET and UFO drawings throughout town

9 a.m.—ET face painting (Founders Park near the library), Beach Rock Painting

10 a.m.—UFO construction for kids, using recyclables (Founders Park) Completed UFO will be on display at the children’s library in the craft room. Alien Crash Site and Debris Field—Children use reverse technology (Founders Park) Children’s UFO story circle—(Founders Park)

11:30 a.m.—ET Costume Contest (Founders Park) followed by sidewalk parade through downtown.

6-7:30 p.m.—Happy Hour at Alien Café (Loaf and Ladle) Discussion: UFOs Off-Label

8-11:00 p.m.—1960s Rock & Roll Dance—Earthlings and Aliens Ball (Town Hall) featuring New England’s famous “The Morlocks” band

Friday Night—UFO movie or documentary—place and time TBA

Saturday—Self-guided UFO safaris, maps available downtown.

From the organizers: "Not only is the Exeter UFO Festival an educational experience for both believers and skeptics, it's a fun time for families and friends. We'll have activities for the kids, an earthling and alien ball, a self-guided UFO safari, a session featuring an esteemed panel of experts and much more.

"For our first UFO Festival, we've put together quite a line-up of distinguished guest speakers, from experts to UFO witnesses alike."

More on the speakers

8:15-9:30 a.m.—Ted Loder, Ph.D.: “The Disclosure Project: UFO Secrecy and our Future”

Dr. Loder retired in May 2005 from a long and productive career as a Professor at the University of New Hampshire, Department of Earth Sciences and member of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space. He has conducted environmental research in numerous countries, and published extensively.

Dr. Loder will present three aspects of the UFO/ET issue in his talk. First he will present an analysis of the what, the how and the why of the present secrecy issues. He will focus on the reasons behind the secrecy which are not what we are told and the dangers of continued secrecy. Second he will present some of the evidence about the existence of extensive government involvement from many of the witnesses in the Disclosure Project.

Finally, he will present recent evidence from extensive field work by CSETI training groups in making contact with ETs at different locations around the US. Websites covering some of these issues include www.DisclosureProject.org and www.CSETI.org.

9:45-11:00 a.m.—Peter Geremia: September 3, 1965 “Incident at Exeter” and NH UFOs”

Peter Geremia held a secret security clearance while working as a civilian federal employee for more than 20 years specializing in aircraft flight simulation. He has 32 years experience as a UFO investigator and is New Hampshire’s MUFON Director Emeritus. During his directorship MUFON attained the highest membership per capita in the United States. He also produced numerous high quality UFO conferences with an international list of top quality speakers.

Peter has appeared on numerous radio and television programs such as “Sightings”, “Encounters”, Paranormal Borderline” and has lectured on his UFO investigations for more than 20 years throughout New England.

His presentation will include his in depth investigation of the famous Norman Muscarello multiple witness UFO encounter chronicled in John G. Fuller’s best seller Incident at Exeter, and close encounters in Epping, South Hampton and Fremont, NH. Using his special event simulation technique he will rivet his audience’s attention upon the actual UFO events as they appeared on location. These slides, combined with his nuts and bolts approach, make his lectures stimulating and entertaining.

11:15-12:30 p.m.—Kathleen Marden: “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience”

Scientific ufologist, Kathleen Marden, is the niece of Betty and Barney Hill, the focus of one of the most well-known alien abductions in UFO history. During her career as a social worker, educator and researcher, Marden implemented model educational programs and taught adult education classes on UFO and abduction history. For 10 years, she served on the MUFON Board of Directors as the Director of Field Investigator Training. She is internationally known, having appeared on news programs, dozens of radio and television shows, and documentaries in the United States, Canada and Europe.

In her virtual reality slide show, you’ll meet the late Betty and Barney Hill and the major players in the UFO investigation. You’ll view the Hill’s encounter route through New Hampshire’s White Mountains, learn about Kathy’s comparative analysis of the Hills’ hypnosis transcripts and gain startling information about their captors’ physical and social characteristics. Further, you’ll view forensic paintings of the extraterrestrial beings who reportedly abducted them. Additionally, you’ll examine the scientific evidence that it was a real event and listen to rare audio taped excerpts from the Hills’ hypnosis sessions with renowned psychiatrist Dr. Benjamin Simon.

Her Web site is http://kathleenmarden.googlepages.com

1:30-2:45 p.m.—Peter Robbins: “The Power of Ridicule vs. A Most Uncomfortable Truth: Why We Need to Take UFOs Seriously”

Peter Robbins is one of the best known and most respected investigative writers and public speakers in the world with regard to the serious study of UFOs. He has been involved in this field for more than 25 years as a researcher, investigator, writer, lecturer, activist and author. A regular fixture on radio shows around the country, he has also appeared as a guest on and been consultant to numerous television shows and documentaries. He is coauthor of the British best-seller, Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident, Its Cover-up and Investigation.

Peter’s lecture will explain why the subject of UFOs and their implications have been ridiculed and laughed at since the summer of 1947, the so-called advent of our modern age of sightings. How did this come to be? What set of events actually created this condition and attitude, and why is so important for us to grasp how serious the subject actually is? In this presentation investigative writer Peter Robbins guides us through the birth and growth of this extremely effective (and still ongoing) strategy of ridicule, and then examines some of this country’s most significant and well documented UFO cases and events.

3-4:15 p.m.—Bill Foster: “The Black Triangle Alien Abduction”

Bill Foster worked in sales and marketing management for 35 years and has been self-employed running a small service business in the New England area for the past 18 years. He has been a featured guest speaker at eleven conventions related to his business. He is the author of eleven non-fiction books and writes articles on the UFO and abduction topic for many international publications.

His presentation “The Black Triangle Abduction”, named after his critically acclaimed book, will rivet his viewing audience as he relates the details of his November 1996 alien abduction, along with his wife, Peggy, in Yadkinville, North Carolina.

His Web site is www.abduct-anon.com.