CLOSE ENCOUNTERS NYC-NEWS -- "UFOs: The Culture of Contact (1947-2007)" Special Edition - JULY 2007

THE LAUNCHING OF A NEW PHASE OF CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITNESS ACTION & PUBLIC EDUCATION IN NYC AT "UFOs: THE CULTURE OF CONTACT"!

*************************** A new phase in the Era of Contact began in New York City's East Village in 2007 with the press conference at The Pioneer Theater on June 21, launching the "UFOs: The Culture of Contact (1947-2007) MultiMedia Festival" that weekend. Organizers, witnesses and educators speaking out and shown here are, seated, FARAH YURDOZU (researcher, author, TV/radio media); WILLIAM J. BIRNES ("UFO Magazine" Publisher, best-selling co-author "The Day After Roswell"); MICHAEL LUCKMAN (researcher and "Alien Rock" author); JEREMY VAENI (author and playwright "I Know Why the Aliens Don't Land", filmmaker "No One's Watching: An Alien Abductee's Story"); HAROLD EGELN (journalist, S.P.A.C.E. founder, NY Space Society president); ALAN WHITE (composer, musician, playwright); and, standing, JEFFREY MORGAN FOSS (experiencer, author "The Jeffrey Morgan Foss Experience"), and MELISSA REED (artist, experiencer, curator).

The press conference, which received positive and straightforward press coverage, put into the Big Apple's orbit an annual, first-ever mega-UFO event initiated by close encounter witnesses and educators. Read in this Special Report about the multimedia events of June 22-23-24, 2007 which marked a major paradigm shift to action by close encounter witnesses. Planning for the 2008 Festival, likely to be in September 2008, is already now in motion, said the Culture of Contact Committee on July 14, with some major public educational events, beginning this September, leading up to the second annual Festival.

UFOs: THE CULTURE OF CONTACT (1947-2007) MultiMedia Festival in NYC -- REPORTS ON "A BRAVE STEP FORWARD"

*********************************************************New York City, the Big Apple of Culture, was the big landing-site for a three-day extravaganza on the weekend June 22-23-24 at the First Annual "UFOs: The Culture of Contact (1947-2007) Conference, Film Retrospective and MultiMedia Festival" ( www.cultureofcontact.com ) in witness of 60 years of the Modern UFO Era, begun on June 24, 1947 when the term "flying saucers" first entered the world stage. Created, conceptionalized and curated by close encounter witnesses, this mega-event featured five classic contact sci-fi movies, 10 artists, 16 presentations with 23 speakers, a panel discussion, four musical acts, one staged play reading and informed resources! This "July 2007 Special Edition of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS NYC-NEWS" from the Search Project of Close Encounters (S.P.A.C.E.) has reports chronicling this brave step forward for Close Encounter Witnesses.

{Artist and experiencer Melissa Reed, Festival Art Show Curator (www.mreedartworks.com) did the book cover "Portal" artwork - not shown here - for "The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs & the Pursuit of UFOs" by Brenda Denzler, PhD, University of California Press, 2001 - www.abductionproject.com - Reed's wondorous "Portal" painting appears there.]

MEGA-UFO FESTIVAL MARKS 60 YEARS OF THE MODERN UFO ERA AS CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITNESSES UNITE!

By HAROLD EGELN

Under the banner of "Alien Abductees Unite!" for the first time in New York City history, close encounter witnesses, along with UFO educators, stepped boldly forward to stage their first mega-multimedia festival with a conference, art show, movies, music and performing arts at their first annual "UFOs: The Culture of Contact (1947-2007) MultiMedia Festival." With a three-ring venue, the festival was all a major information download of the Big Apple Kind, dished out on flying saucers.

Organizers chose the event on the weekend of June 22-23-24 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Modern UFO Era begun in 1947 with the pilot Kenneth Arnold's UFOs sighting report near Mount Rainier in Washington State on June 24, 1947, launching a spectacular Sky Theater display in that "Summer of the Flying Saucers," zooming through the heavens and crashing down to Earth. They held the event in the creative cauldron of Manhattan's East Village, site of the UFO movie action for "Batteries Not Included" 25 years ago.

This time in the East Village, energizing "batteries" were included, powered by the vision and energy of Festival organizers. The Festival was conceptualized by empowered close encounter witnesses for everyone and designed both for the general public and as a support statement for experiencers to become more proactive.

Making the Festival possible was the sponsorship of "UFO Magazine" and JayVay Productions, along the venues of The Pioneer Theater, P.S. 63 and the Lit Lounge.

In a feature, front page article by S. James Snyder in the "Arts+" section of "The New York Sun" [Way Out There -- The Truth is Out in the East Village" -- pages 11 & 15, Fri., June 22], Festival organzier Jeremy Vaeni explains the Festival's concept: "'It started because the East Coast had not had something like this in a long time and we started thinking, what can we do? And we came up with this sort of Lollapalooza-style concept, with events around the city, focusing on screening classic films in hopes of attracting new people beyond the traditionial crowds you expect. After you rope them in, then maybe they'll stay around to hear some of of what we have to say." And, in fact, they did!

The Festival, in its scope and purpose, was a creative, eclectic, whirling mix of popular science fiction classic movies about contact, artists whom either directly experienced encounters or are compeled to portray them, "alien rock" space music, an abductee's play (stage reading), and many experienced and informed speakers. This all demonstrated the wide-ranging complexity in the Varieties of the Close Encounter Experience. It was declared by attendees, participants and the media as a positive statement on the Shape and Future of Contact.

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE CINEMA KIND

Classic sci-fi movies with a UFO theme, three from the 1950s, attracted more than 200 people, with speakers at The Pioneer Theater. It all started with "Foo Fighter Friday" when Farah Yurdozu, the UFO and paranormal researcher and author, and journalist Harold Egeln of S.P.A.C.E. talked about the advent of the Modern Flying Saucer Era, followed by a rousing presentation by William Birnes, Publisher, "UFO Magazine," on new Roswell deathbed revelations based on an affidavit left to his family by the late PR military officer Lieut. Walter Haut at the base in 1947. All that introduced Ray Harryhausen's spectacular "Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers" (1956) with a flying saucer fleet intervening in an Earth satellite project and attacking Washington, DC. "This movie actually depicts real events that really happened," said Birnes, co-author of "The Day After Roswell," a NY Times best seller 10 years ago, noting a "shooting war" against UFOs in the first half of the 1950s.

"Stars in the Dark of Space Saturday" began mid-afternoon with an introduction by abductee Vaeni, a "UFO Magazine" columnist and author of "I Know Why the Aliens Don't Land" and movie producer of "No One's Watching: An Alien Abductee's Story." He was followed by "Invaders From Mars" (1953), a classic sci-fi movie which featured Martians implanting humans to control their minds and actions. This was followed by legendary UFO abduction researcher Budd Hopkins, Director, Intruders Foundation ("Missing Time," "Intruders," "Witnesses" and "Sight Unseen"), with the latest on his abduction research.

Then came the rarely shown, little-known "Stranger From Venus" (1954), a British version of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) set in the English countryside with the UK government plotting to steal an anti-gravity spaceship, and starring Patricia Neal from Robert Wise's "The Day the Earth..." The story was written by Irish UFO researcher Desmond Leslie, co-author of contactee George Adamski's "Flying Saucers Have Landed" (1953).

"Project Mindshift: The Re-Education of the American Public Concerning Extraterrestrial Life, 1947-Present" author Michael Mannion (Mindshift Institute) followed with a talk on the evolving image of UFOs in the media and American culture. This came before "Starman" (1984), about an alien planet's response to the Voyager space probe's "Hello From the Planet Earth" gold-plated LP and the ET (Jeff Bridges) acquiring human form along with human emotions.

Then Exopolitics leader Stephen Bassett, Executive Director and Founder, Paradigm Research Group, talked about the impending disclosure by a major government about UFO reality and the impact of disclosure on humanity and its future course. His call-to-action talk on ending "the truth embargo" on UFOs was followed by the movie "Contact" (1997), based on Carl Sagan's novel about what would happen if SETI detected ETI signals, starring Jodie Foster. "This movie was not about first contact, but the consequences of disclosure," said Bassett, the only registered lobbysist representing UFO/ET research organizations in Washington, DC.

"SECRET SCHOOL SUNDAY" CONFERENCE

Speakers on "Secret School Sunday" at P.S. 63, where up to 150 people attended, gave a breath-taking, comprehensive and detailed overview of where Ufology stands now, 60 years after the 1947 Summer of the Flying Saucers.

The impressive list of speakers, in order, included moderator Alan Steinfeld ("New Realties" MNN cable TV show host) on the need for a new view of reality. He was followed by longtime, world-famous researcher J. Antonio Huneeus, making a trip from his home a few hundred miles from NYC, with an exciting overview of recent developments in Ufology in South America, from Chile to Argentia to Brazil.

UFO and paranormal author, researcher and TV host Farah Yurdozu, a "UFO Magazine columnist" and Jerry Pippin Show producer, who first suggested an annual UFO event in NYC, talked about abductions as seen through the eyes of a Turkish-born researcher now living in USA. Robert Morningstar, a "UFO Digest" Co-Edtor and pilot, of NYC explained US government coverups relating to UFOs, with thoughts on "the Alien Agenda." Then from the Disclosure Network-NY, brothers Clay and Shawn Pickering presented "A Whistleblower's Story."

Longtime UFO investigator Philip Imbrogno, "Hudson Valley UFO Sightings" author, along with two other follow-up books on contact and stone chamber mysteries, gave an in-depth illustrated presentation on his findings about the Hudson Valley Contacts, which will appear in his next book due for release later in 2008.

Key scene video clips from an upcoming documentary movie by Carol Rainey, co-author of Sight Unseen" and film documentary-maker, were shown. The clips showed UFO witness Frank Soriano's UFO video and subsequent session with Budd Hopkins to uncover an episode of "missing time" during the video. Jim Bouck. director of NY-MUFON talked about his first UFO sighting related to Soriano's experience.video of a UFO.

Author, researcher and rock musicologist Michael Luckman, Director, New York Center for Extraterrestrial Research, spoke about his well-reviewed and popular book, "Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll and the Extraterrestrial Connection."

Alex Wright, a member of the Combustive Automotive Corporation, discussed in an illustrated presentation the UFO/alien symbols which have popped up throughout history from cave paintings to mideval artworks to the graffiti art of today, documented in CMC's "U.F.O." photo book.

Abductee Jeffrey Morgan Foss, coming from Massachusetts, talked about his Positive Close Encounters in a riveting illustrated presentation which showed his encounters, and his advocacy of Conversion Technology for the peaceful development of humankind. His talk closed the program, attracting much interest. Abductees then met informally with the public outside the school.

Although not on stage, abductee and space music-maker Posey Gilbert was on hand for all three days talking about his experiences with the public. Among Ufologists attending was author Peter Moon ("The Montauk Newsletter"), who had a chockful literature table at the Sunday conference.

Also in attendence but not on stage, was movie-maker Barry Strugatz of NYC, whose DVD of his "From Other Worlds" movie was available at the Festival. It's a charming, light-hearted sci-fi flick about alien abductees in Brooklyn who are given a world-saving mission by a space alien.

Overall, the Sunday conference was A-OK, after a late start of "missing time" (how close encounter-like!), with apoligies from organizers.

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE ART & MUSIC KIND

Artists at the P.S. 63 exhibit on Saturday and Sunday, enabling direct contact with attendees, included experiencer and/or interested painters. Among artists were David Huggins, whose work was featured in The NY Times in 1997 and at the American Primitive Gallery in Soho. His realistic and colorful paintings depict his encounters from his childhood in Georgia until now. Outsider artist Ionel Talpazan, whose artwork about the science behind UFO technology was also featured in The NY Times and the American Primitive Gallery, and featured in a show at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore in 2001 and on the PBS-TV "Egg" program on "Space" in 2000.

Artist John Sheldon, also featured in The NY Times in 1997, was in the "In Advance of the Landing" book and movie 20 years ago, was there with his "Man From Planet X," "Invaders From Mars" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" paintings. Urban artist David Twidle, whose art was in The Fringe Festival, displayed his colorful UFO artworks and faces.

Art Show curator Melissa Reed, whose dimensionalized paintings have been displayed most recently in Jersey City, included the painting which was the book cover for "The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs" by Brenda Denzler, published by University of California Press.

Famous science fiction and fantasy artist Marcus Boas's artworks were "biolocating" there and at a Comic Book Covention on the same weekend. Pioneer Theatre UFO art show curator Alex Rohr displayed his etheral UFO paintings at the movie theater, on display with paintings by Huggins throgh early July.

Other artists on display were Jeff Schectman in his first UFO art display in a public school, Yancy Spencer whose works are inspired by city UFO/alien encounters, legendary artist and visionary architect Paul Laffoley of Boston, and graphic novel artist Rick T.

Digital special effects artist David Biedny gave a screen presentation on Saturday at the school titled "Art Software From Beyond the 8th Dimension."

Amazing UFO graffiti photos from the "U.F.O." graf art book by Combustve Motor Corporation were on display, with photographers Chris Noble and Alex Wright on hand. Noble also video-taped interviews with several of the Festival participants. [More on the art show in a separate article in the "UFOs: The Culture of Contact Journal" soon.]

A "Culture of Contact" UFO Art show continues into early July in the lobby of The Pioneer Theater, on East 3rd Street, east of Avenue A, featuring the paintings of David Huggins and Alex Rohr.

UFO Alien Rock music on Friday night was hosted at the Lit Lounge by famed UFO showman and researcher Michael Luckman with The Violets and Roy Orbit. Introducing the Secret School Sunday conference at P.S. 63 with Music of the Close Encounters Kind was Alan White, Marcy Gordon and Bryan-David Kee, and other musicians, playing three tunes, including a musical number from White's "Viv From Venus" musical.

At the "Alien Rock" night at the Lit Lounge, VJ Masahiro Kahata used his psychic brainwave machine on band members. His computer device was used in the "Wave UFO" installation at the IBM Atrium (at Madison Ave. and 56th St.) a few years ago, projecting "Wave UFO" occupant's brainwaves on a screen where they could form mental art.

MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE POSITIVE KIND

General media local coverage was all positive and confined to pre-coverage items in "Time Out N.Y." magazine out on June 20, which featured a straight-forward interview by Dan Avery ("Visitation Rites") with Vaeni in the lead About Town Pick-of-the-Week; "The Sun" ("Way Out There" by S. James Snyder) on June 22 quoting Vaeni, Bassett, Reed, and Pioneer Theater Manager Ray Privette (one of two feature cover stories in its Arts weekend section); "Metro" free newspaper on June 22 ("UFOs In The East Village" by Michael Rundle); the "New York Post" on June 22 ("UFO-festival" by Don Kadison); and the online "The Reeler" on June 21 ["The Weekend We Made Contact" by S.T. Van Airsdale] and "IndieFilms" on June 28 ["UFO Fest Beams Them In" by Charlie Olsky] quoting Birnes, Steinfeld, Reed and Vaeni (Read the articles, please!).

Although no local press or TV attended the Festival itself, an Italian TV crew covered the Sunday conference, airing it on Italian TV that day. There was an excellent, lively and in-depth press conference on Thursday at The Pioneer Theater with Vaeni, Yurdozu, Birnes and Egeln, with Birnes announcing new Roswell revelations of evidence that the Roswell crash of an alien spacecraft did occur, thanks to the release of Lieut. Walter Haut's deathbed affidavit - he was the military base PR officer at the base at the time of the incident in July 1947 - by his family after his recent death.

Later it was learned that a UFO followed by helicopters was reportedly seen over Jersey City, Reed's home, at the time of the press conference on June 21 and was reported on CNN.

All presentations at the movies and conference were professionally audio-recorded. They are available now for the public from Tapeman Creative Seminars (www.cstapes.com and 1-845-679-6885. Information will be posted on the main Festival website - www.cultureofcontact.com - soon.

A remarkable feature of the Festival, thanks to "UFO Magazine," was the awesome glossy Culture of Contact program brochure, a six page, eight and a half by eleven inch artwork in itself! Beautiful UFO cover art was created by Melissa Reed, with four pages of program events; three pages of speaker, artist and musician bios with several photos; and a page of FAQ by Vaeni. Full page ads included Luckman's "Aien Rock" book, a "UFO Magazine" subscription form, and a back cover ad for "Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III - A Wargame Scenario" by Michael J. Coumatos, William B. Scott and Wiliam J. Birnes, wih a foreword by George Noory.

Tentative plans for the 2nd Annual UFOs: The Culture of Contact MultiMedia Festival 2008 are for it to be held in September 2008 at a central venue along with an "Aliens Among Us" film festival at The Pioneer Theater, with well-known people already invited. You will be surprised, organizers say!

NYC UFO CONFERENCE HISTORY

The Festival was held on the exact anniversary of the legendary first UFO Conference, held by James Moseley ("Saucer Smear") at the Hotel Commodore (now long-gone) in June 1967, which drew over 8.000 people. He held another one in NYC at the Doral Inn in 1980.

Michael Luckman, author of "Alien Rock," has held conferences at the Hollywood Club in October 1988 to mark the 50th anniversary of Orson Well's historic and panic-provoking "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast, at a public school in Greenwich Vllage in 1990, and the popular multimedia festival at the famed Village Gate in 1993.

"UFO Expo East" conferences, held by the Whole Life Expo, were staged in 1993 and 1994 (S.P.A.C.E. had a Close Encounters Witnesses Panel at both). Budd Hopkins' Intruders Foundation held conferences at the O'Henry Learning Center in 1999 (with Hopkins, David Jacobs, Stanton Friedman, Jerome Clark, Carol Rainey, Greg Sandow); at the Hall of Science in Flushing, Queens in 2000 (included Dr. John Mack and Nick Pope); and on Staten Island in 2004 (with Dr. Mack). Tim "Mr. UFO" Beckley has also held some conferences, such as the one in 1981 at a Park Avenue church. Richard Boyland held his annual ACCET national UFO conference at Manhattan hotel in 2003.

Conferences near NYC included, in the past, the Omega UFO Conferences in North Haven, Conn., staged in the 1980s and 1990s by author John White. Two "UFO/ET Congress" conferences are staged annually in Bordentown, NJ. "Eyes of Learnng" held two UFO conferences in Levittown, LI, in the late 1990s. A major UFO exhibit on the 50th anniversary of the Modern UFO Era was held at a museum in Port Washington, LI in 1997.

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Links to news articles, related items, and a full description of the Who, What and Why of the UFO Festival are on the links below, followed an co-organizer's story on the weekend and its meaning.

Continue getting updates on the Festival's official web site at www.cultureofcontact.com, which will soon feature photos of the Festival.

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CULTURE OF CONTACT A SUCCESS! By Jeremy Vaeni [from Vaeni's "Valiens" Blog] New York, NY - June 25, 2007 -- With no budget for advertising, we packed 'em in. What an awesome experience, really! ... I want to thank everyone involved who gave freely of their time and energy... Melissa Reed (for curating the art exhibit and doing grunt work with me). It's no coincidence that a UFO surrounded by black helicopters were reported over the street (in Jersey City) where you live during the press conference (on June 21). Alan Steinfeld (for your energy, venue seeking, equipment use). Chris Noble and Alex Wright (a breath of fresh air). Bill and Nancy Birnes (lending your name, magazine, credbility). Budd Hopkins (first speaker to say, "Yes, I'll do it."). Michael Mannion and Trish Corbett (getting onboard early), Stephen Bassett (for not only attending but speaking), Farah Yurdozu (by planting the seed in the first place), Ray Privette (for The Pioneer Theater as its manager), and Harold Egeln (for the speakers, artists, website).... All of the speakers, musicians, artists and volunteers, you're amazing and I thank you. Culture of Contact thanks you.... Culture of Contact especially thanks the abductees who "came out of the closet," so to speak, for the first time at this event. Your bravery is what will keep the train chugging.... I want to thank all members of the press who reported on the festival. You set aside the usual guffows and jokes and really got behind this in a positive way. This is the first time in history that alien abductees have gotten together and you could have easily picked your shots. None of you did. That, too, is an historical first. Perhaps a real change is in the air now, along with, you know, the UFOs. ******************************************************* These are edited excerpts from Festival Co-Organizer Jeremy Vaeni on his "Valiens" Blog site article, posted below. Read Vaeni's full report, written the day after the three-day "UFOs: The Culture of Contact Festival" by clicking it on.

WHEN CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITNESSES ACT TOGETHER: THE NEW SHAPE OF CONTACT RESPONSE?

By HAROLD EGELN

The sky theater of UFO sightings and the close encounters on the world stage with its behind the curtains stealth drama has been the tableau upon which Contact has unfolded and been dramatized in witness accounts, the media, books and movies.

Those of us who experience close encounters of all kinds, no matter the emotional, physical and mental impact of this extraordinary experience on our lives and worldview, are at the interface of cosmic contact, at the edge of known and unknown worlds. Whatever it is called, purely and simply, this is all about CONTACT.

Saying "we are here," some of us who have been at that interface of contact decided in 2006 that the international metropolis of NYC needed an annual UFO conference, staged in the shape of a multimedia event, to make open contact with the general public and one another. That was the motive and impetus which shaped the recent "UFOs: The Culture of Contact (1947-2007) MultiMedia Festival" held in a triad of sites in Manhattan's East Village, where creative energy thrives.

Close encounter witnesses, whether called alien abductees or UFO experiencers, have been portrayed in various diverse ways in the media and among researchers. Now we want to say: This is who we really are. We are like you. We want to share with everyone what has been happening. We know our lives have been affected, abuted and altered by contact. It is an intensely personal experience and inner journey of discovery for each one of us. Alone, none of us has the total truth. But together, like pieces of a puzzle which is larger than its number of pieces, we may learn together. Here we are. Here are our own stories.

Now we step forward, to speak out not from a cloistered hut of belief but from a global university of cosmic knowledge, yet still shadowed but rimmed with the light of sincerity. And, furthermore, to take action.

Yes, to act both on our own and together can be scary to do, and it takes courage. Many may, naturally, want to hide and wait, which is the right thing for them and supported by us, for we all sit on the same long bench of historical contact. As witnesses, we do not speak for the visitors. But we can speak about them in an intermediary role, our lives tangled in two worlds.

If "they" come enmasse publically as imagined in many ways, we are here if you want us to tell the parts of the Story of Contact we experience. We may not step up to volunteer ourselves, for no one has The Answer. But if you call us, we may answer with our own corner of contact to share. That is one of the messages of our first festival.

The focus of the "UFOs: The Culture of Contact" events was and continues to be an examination of what has been happening six decades since Kenneth Arnold saw his nine chevron-shaped aircraft at the debut of the 1947 Summer of the Flying Saucers, now seen as long ago for most people but with that sharp taste of the unknown still lingering in history's mouth. The activation of new perspectives, new scientific tools and new ways of thinking and feeling are necessary to try to grasp a complex cosmic Contact which cannot be boiled down to understandable terms in conventional ways. We are dealing with a Cosmic Wonderland where quantum nonsense runs away from normal expectations.

The Culture of Contact, which has formed in the last 60 years and in the immense and hoary eons way before that, offers us all the Challenge of Contact with sensory awareness yet to be fully defined, developed and engaged. It may just become the way to become truly human and travel far into space and beyond time, taking our place in the stellar community and taking a role as cosmic citizens, if we wish and dare.

The Festival is an outgrowth of the concepts which have guided not only those involved in its planning, but that of S.P.A.C.E., the Search Project for Aspects of Close Encounters, active in NYC since 1992. S.P.A.C.E., as told in detail on its main web site and online publications, has provided a support system composed of private group meetings and a buddy program, along with an empowerment option for close encounter witnesses to seek out common ground at the edge of the encounter interface. The later includes close encounter situations sought out by witnesses.

There seems to be Something New Happening Right Now. Maybe. In our "Culture of Contact" events on the first Summer weekend of 2007, with its great input and flow of information overload from experiencers and educators, -- those who are seasoned, growing or newly fresh, -- along with a few gremlin glitches, what one of the organizers, Jeremy Vaeni, termed "a minor miracle" unfolded.

On the first full Summer weekend of 2007, the Close Encounter Witness Movement took a Brave Step Out of the Saucer and into the World in Manhattan's fabled and storied East Village. What will be, over time, the response of the Known World we all inhabit and of those who inhabit the Unknown Worlds?

[Illustration Credit: "From Other Worlds" (by Barry Strugatz) movie publicity poster shows a Brooklyn abductee looking at a UFO over NYC.]

Crescent Moon Flying Saucer artwork copyright2007©David Twidle, NYC urban artist and "UFOs: The Culture of Contact" participant.