RosFest 08 a Success
Mike Smith
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Apparently Roswell has still got it. According to both the city and the International UFO Museum and Research Center the 2008 Roswell UFO Festival was a “big success.”
On the IUFOMRC front attendance for their Roswelalien Experience went up 25% this year. A rather phenomenal feat considering attendance is generally higher for milestone years ending in fives or zeros, and this was the 61st Anniversary. IUFOMRC director Julie Shuster said in the Roswell Daily Record that 7,216 people attended this year’s festival and that she would have been happy just to meet last year’s stellar results, let alone exceed them. Shuster is already planning the 2009 Roswalien Experience.
The city’s numbers apparently won’t be officially tallied until another month or so, but the city said the attendance for this year’s festival surpassed their expectations and the city is very pleased with the results. While it is still unknown whether more people attended the 60th Anniversary than the 61st it has been confirmed that Roswell hotels had an increase in occupancy rates compared to last year’s event.
Since the festival was free to the public there is no sure fire way to determine how many people actually showed up, but is for certain that 9,500 people visited the vendor exhibit, more than 5,000 people came to watch the parade, and 3,000 came to visit the alien village. City Marketing Director and Festival Chairwoman Renee Roach says the city committee will work on ways to better track attendance next year.
All in all this summer in Roswell, it seems, can officially be deemed a success and the festival will certainly continue next summer.
— John LeMay
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Reader Comments (3)
This year, Roswell. Tomorrow, the Universe!
Hi, John. Bet you thought I'd been abducted by the Grays. ;-)
Bet you could say the same for me huh? (abducted by the greys that is)
That is a good slogan, the one they had for this year wasn't bad either, "Absolutely EVERYONE will be there."
Thanks for sticking with us, me and Mike are talking about a major redesign soon and hopefully it will come to pass soon. Hopefully I'll have some new Roswell's up soon too!
Stay safe and don't get abducted!