RosFest 08
Mike Smith
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Well, if you were planning on coming to Roswell this summer you might as well unpack your suitcases and put them back in the closet, because the big event is cancelled. That’s right, this summer there will not be over 2,000 Volkswagen Beetles descending upon Roswell.
Wait, what’s that? You thought I was talking about the UFO Festival? And this was the same opening ploy I used to write about Old Chisum Days just a few Daily Stranges ago?
Well, whatever the case, rest assured the 2008 Roswell UFO Festival, and the International UFO Museum’s Roswalien 2008 UFO Festival are still going strong and kicked off yesterday, July 3rd, with a special broadcast of the CBS’s “The Early Show” filmed live in Roswell from 4:45 AM to 6:45AM at the Roswell Convention and Visitor’s Center. This year’s festival will include all the usual extraterrestrial pleasantries and for a full schedule for both the city’s and the International UFO Museum’s schedules check it out here.
People hoping to be a part of the Roswell 2K Beetle Convention, also known as “the biggest gathering of Volkswagen New Beatles in the country” and Roswell’s other big summer convention, are not so lucky on the other hand. Due to the high gas prices, and the fact that Volkswagen will not officially be sponsoring the event this year, the Roswell 2K Beetle Convention has been cancelled.
For those of you who don’t know why every summer for the past several years thousands of Volkswagen New Beetles descend upon Roswell, a UFO Connection is to blame again. When the New Beetles were introduced in the late 1990s a TV commercial played suggesting the New Beetles were built from technology recovered from a crashed UFO.
Ironically, witness reports from Roswell in July 1947 had several town residents claiming to have seen the military hauling a mysterious object about the size of a Volkswagen beetle through town under a tarp on its way to the military base.
Roswell hopes that next year the Roswell 2K Beetle Convention will return.
—John LeMay
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