From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Saturday: National Flying Saucer Day
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:52:26 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:26 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Saturday: National Flying Saucer Day

> On this Saturday, in 1947 an object supposedly fell from the sky over
> Roswell, New Mexico. I'm not worried about the truth of the Roswell
> Incident, but it's clearly part of the mythology of fandom.

Actually, it has no part of the mythology of fandom -- unless your idea of
fandom is celebrating alien abductions and anal probes.  In actual fact,
fandom has done its best to distance itself from the UFO Believers, and has
done so for over 50 years.

> Any suggestions on how to celebrate it?

Ignore it?  As we have always done?

--Ted White