From: yogi@iadfw.net
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 19:15:09 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 00:59:26 -0400
Subject: Hot Damn! Something _Not_ to be Missed.....

Hello Updaters,

This is a follow-up to my previous post promising a preview of a UFO
exhibit that is to be on display during the Roswell Extravaganza 97.

My original attempt at RealVideo was a complete failure. The frame
rate was too low and didn't show enough. I have updated the video clip
to a higher frame rate and it now shows a little bit more.
You can view this updated version at

      http://ufo-world.simplenet.com/roswell_exhibit.ram

I have also included an article from one of our local newspapers that
details this project.

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SOURCE: Ft.Worth Telegram
By John Austin - Star Telegram Staff Writer
6/27/97

                        From planet Latex

                 UFO-compatible creatures in Arlington
                 pack bags for New Mexico's open spaces

   ARLINGTION - Naked, four-fingered aliens with green innards were
sighted yesterday on Division Street, but they won't be staying long.

   The gray aliens, their wrecked spacecraft and three truckloads of
related gear head this weekend for New Mexico, where the whole display
will be part of next week's big Roswell UFO Encounter '97.

   The July 1-6 event, which is generating a spate of media attention,
including a recent Time magazine cover, marks the 50th anniversary of
what many believe was a crash os a spacecraft and alien encounter in
1947.

   An Air Force report denied the extraterrestrial theory, and said
the so-called dead aliens found on the scene were crash-test dummies,
send aloft by the government.

   The Arlington artisans in charge of creating the "Hanger 18"
display don't buy the E.T. theory either, but they're doing an out-of-
this-world job of recreating a scene that will give visitors a peek at
what it might have been like to walk through the Air Force's Hangar 18
shortly after they recovered the purported alien remains and brought
them in for a field autopsy.

   "My client is the City of Roswell," said John F. Hopkins, 36, owner
of Arlington's Le Theatre de Marionette production company. "It's our
idea. It's their money."

   The city is paying for the $25,000 project, Hopkins said.

   "It's kind of like a haunted house, but alien-themed," said Joe
Vargas of Roswell's parks and recreation department, referring to
Hopkin's recreation. "It's just a theme to generate more tourism."

   The display should complement Roswell's UFO Encounter trade show -
a perfect one-stop shopping opportunity for someone who might need a
new pair of alien shoes, want to see a gigantic, muscle-bound
inflatable alien or confront aliens in virtual reality - nicely,
Vargas said.

   "Last year we did about 15 sky-diving, glow-in-the-dark aliens," he
said. "We had aliens on Jet Skis."

   Constructing the setup, which includes an Air Force autopsy room,
wreckage display, debriefing/decomtamination area and guard station,
has kept Hopkins' seven-person crew moving at warp speed for three
weeks, molding latex, slicing foam and breathing acetone fumes.

   There will be period newspapers strewn across the autopsy, official
looking forms and scads of other stuff that comes under the heading of
what Hopkins and staff artist Shane Johnson call "nernies."

   Nernies are nondescript odds and ends, such as medical gear, faked
labels and documents that give the scene a realistic feel.

   "We just kind of nernie it up," he said. "Radiation suits, bombs,
rifles..."

   New Mexico National Guardsmen in surplus Air Force fatigues will
man the whole thing, and the soft latex aliens will be wired to twitch
spasmodically on the autopsy table.

   "We're gonna give 'em a few scares and jolts," said Hopkins, a
Bowie High School graduate and University of Texas at Arlington
theater department alumnus who has made a career of designing
theatrical puppets and haunted houses.

   Vargas said he hopes the hangar will generate around 10,000
customers paying $3 to $4 each. If it's a hit, they'll keep it.

   Hopkins will bring it back and use the display as a Halloween
attraction if they don't.

   Meanwhile, he has just one more wish.

   If there are any extraterrestrials out there, he said, " I wish
they'd arrange transportation to get his stuff out there.

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