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posted: 02:13 pm ET
23 September 1999
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UFO Researchers Descend on San Antonio
With
the dog days of Sirius and a controversial solar eclipse behind them, the
stars of the UFOlogical world, including Joe Firmage and Whitley Strieber,
gathered last weekend in San Antonio, TX.
The National UFO Conference,
held this year in conjunction with a crusading San Antonio-based journal
of the bizarre, The Anomalist, is the world's oldest gathering
devoted to flying saucers, alien abductions and other phenomena of possibly
extraterrestrial nature.
Software millionaire Joe
Firmage, known as "the Fox Mulder of Silicon Valley," was this year's
keynote
speaker. Firmage recently attracted widespread media attention for
founding the International Space Sciences Organization and making other
efforts to popularize the truth behind UFOs.
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| |  | Strieber,
godfather of the modern abduction story, was honored
as "UFOlogist of the year."
Now in its 36th year, the
conference was founded in Cleveland in 1964 by Rick Hilberg and other researchers.
The event generally packs several seminars, lectures and other activities
of interest into a marathon
weekend session.
Every year, the conference
is held in a different U.S. city. Last year, the researchers converged
on Bordonton, NJ, just outside Trenton.
Veteran UFO lecturer James
Moseley, publisher of the paranormal "trade journal" Saucer Smear,
has served as permanent chairman and master of ceremonies of the conference
since 1971.
Anomalist co-editor
Dennis Stacy, a San Antonio resident, hosted this year's event.
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