UFOs Cover up or uncovered
Believer or skeptic, films will make you think

ABOVE: As this photo illustration shows, filmgoers willl be treated to some informative documentaries Saturday on UFOs at El Morro Theatre in Gallup. BELOW: Chuck Wade holds a piece of metal that he found at the Plains of St. Augustine in 2004. Wade says the metal is part of the outer skin of a UFO that crashed there in 1947.

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Gallup Independent
Believer or skeptic, films will make you think
By Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola
Staff Writer

GALLUP — Whether you’re a true believer, an open minded seeker, or an out-an-out skeptic, Chuck Wade hopes you attend Gallup’s UFO Film Festival this weekend.

Four documentary films will be featured at the Fifth Annual UFO Film Festival, which will be held from 5 to 11 p.m. on Saturday at El Morro Theatre, 207 W. Coal Ave.

“I think people should come and take a good hard look at the evidence that UFOs are real,” said Wade, the founder of the film festival.

As for Wade, he has no doubts about the existence of UFOs. Born and raised in Corona, Wade said the reported crash of an alien aircraft in the world famous “Roswell Incident” took place near his childhood home. The man who discovered the alleged crash site asked Wade’s father to inspect the site, Wade recalled, but his father turned him down — a decision that he later regretted. The Wade family did store some of the broken-up aircraft parts in their barn before military officials collected them, Wade added, and he recalls seeing the parts in the barn.

Wade said that he does have metal that he believes is from another alleged 1947 UFO crash site near St. Augustine, N.M. The site is located about 125 miles south of Gallup in the Datil and Pie Town region. According to research he has done, Wade believes that four UFOs crashed in New Mexico in July 1947 and a fifth crashed in 1948.

This year’s film festival features a strong line-up of documentaries, Wade said, including information about the New Mexico UFO reports. The evening’s schedule is as follows:

• 5 p.m: “Crop Circles: Crossovers from Another Dimension”; film by Norwegian producer Terje Toftenes.

• 6:30 p.m: “Wendelle Stevens”; documentary featuring the testimony of Wendelle Stevens, a retired U.S. Air Force pilot and prominent UFO researcher. Stevens, the author of “A UFO Crash at Aztec,” has amassed the largest collection of images thought by some to be UFOs.

• 8 p.m: “UFOs and Alternative Energy”; local documentary featuring an Oct. 2007 presentation by Wade in Roswell, N.M. about five UFO crashes that Wade believes happened in New Mexico in 1947 and 1948.

• 9:15 p.m: “Out of the Blue/The Definitive Investigation of the UFO Phenomenon,” produced by James Fox and narrated by Peter Coyote.

Film festival admission is $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens and high school students, and $5 for mid-school students.

Information: Chuck Wade at (505) 979-1138