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(NewsNation) — As Americans hole for Independence Day celebrations, UFO enthusiasts are marking a antithetic occasion: World UFO Day.
The holiday, observed connected July 2, commemorates the day of the 1947 Roswell incident erstwhile an Army upwind balloon, according to the military, crashed successful New Mexico. Some judge it was an alien spacecraft, sparking decades of conspiracy theories astir a authorities cover-up.
Roswell, the self-proclaimed UFO superior of the world, hosts its yearly UFO Festival this weekend. City Councilor Juliana Halvorson said Tuesday connected NewsNation's "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" that the lawsuit astir doubles the town's population.
"Merchants are truthful successful," Halvorson said. "We get radical from each implicit the satellite that travel sojourn us."
The festival features costume contests, speakers, panels and family-friendly activities. Halvorson emphasized that some believers and skeptics are welcome.
"You get radical that are existent believers … oregon you get radical that conscionable privation to person a clump of household fun," she said.
Halvorson noted accrued involvement successful UFO tourism pursuing caller claims by whistleblower David Grusch astir alleged authorities programs involving nonhuman exertion and "biologics." The U.S. authorities has denied these claims.
While Roswell doesn't spot galore UFO sightings nowadays, Halvorson encourages visitors to support an unfastened caput and research the town's UFO museum, which houses the world's largest UFO library.
"It whitethorn alteration your mind. It whitethorn not, but you tin astatine slightest larn much astir what's going connected successful the world," Halvorson said.
