{"id":37794,"date":"2022-10-18T16:11:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T22:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/roswells-recent-ufo-festival-brought-over-2m-in-spending\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:40:02","slug":"roswells-recent-ufo-festival-brought-over-2m-in-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/roswells-recent-ufo-festival-brought-over-2m-in-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Roswell\u2019s recent UFO Festival brought over $2M in spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fe07e071-c2f3-59ee-9a49-35788784f404&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"1786\" height=\"1068\" alt=\"A bicycle-powered flying saucer sputters by the crowd gathered on Main Street on July 5, 1997, for the 50th anniversary of the alleged UFO crash near Roswell, N.M. (AP Photo\/Susan Sterner, File)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A bicycle-powered flying saucer sputters by the crowd gathered on Main Street on July 5, 1997, for the 50th anniversary of the alleged UFO crash near Roswell, N.M. (AP Photo\/Susan Sterner, File)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Susan Sterner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ROSWELL, N.M. \u2013 Roswell officials say the city&#8217;s UFO Festival had an economic impact of more than $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Roswell Daily Record <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rdrnews.com\/news\/local\/city-ufo-festival-generated-over-2-million-for-area\/article_7171822e-4691-11ed-8ac4-db002b44c4e0.html\" id=\"link-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> the Roswell City Council&#8217;s finance committee looked earlier this month at an economic report for the event.<\/p>\n<p>It indicated more than 40,000 visitors came to the four-day festival, which ran June 30-July 3.<\/p>\n<p>The cost for the city to mount it was more than $200,000. Officials applauded the results as a \u201c10 to 1 return on your money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Staff who put together the report reviewed gross receipts taxes, occupancy or lodgers&#8217; tax, ticket sales and other factors. They also analyzed data from trash collection to estimate the number of visitors.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s festival marked the 75th anniversary of the alleged Roswell Incident. Something crashed at what was then the J.B. Foster ranch in 1947, with the U.S. Army announcing it had recovered a \u201cflying disc\u201d but later saying the debris was merely the remnants of a high-altitude weather balloon.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation about extraterrestrials and government cover-ups has existed ever since, inspiring books, movies and TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone anniversary brought various businesses and groups together to organize 34 events for the UFO Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bicycle-powered flying saucer sputters by the crowd gathered on Main Street on July 5, 1997, for the 50th anniversary of the alleged UFO crash near Roswell, N.M. (AP Photo\/Susan Sterner, File)Susan Sterner ROSWELL, N.M. \u2013 Roswell officials say the city&#8217;s UFO Festival had an economic impact of more than $2 million. The Roswell Daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[138],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-37794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83788,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37794\/revisions\/83788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37794"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=37794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}