First of a Kind Event Coverage
by our Programming Producer and Correspondent, Farah Yurdozu,
shown above in the Big Apple

Close Encounters of a New York Kind: a 3-day Festival gives the public a chance to sample the many ways UFOs have impacted modern culture. The Festival is conceived and created not only by educators, investigators, and scholars, but also by individuals whose interest in the phenomenon is as up close and personal as it gets: actual UFO witnesses and alien abductees!

• The event features:
  • Classic flying saucer sci-fi films and new UFO movies
  • Lectures and panel discussions by renowned scientists, investigators, witnesses, authors, and abductees
  • Live music inspired by UFOs and sci-fi • Theater, standup, and readings
  • A gallery of UFO art by abductees and enthusiasts Participating personalities include
  • Bestselling authors Budd Hopkins and William J. Birnes • Noted psychic and Ufologist Farah Yurdozu
  • UFO investigator-filmmaker-author Jeremy Vaeni

Jeremy Vaeni, Co-Sponsor of the
Culture of Contact Event, author and film-maker.

This is the first time an event of this scope and magnitude has come to Manhattan. It’s been sixty years since UFOs exploded into the public consciousness. They’ve impacted everything from movies to literature to pop music to television. What better place to celebrate this global phenomenon than New York City, the center of the universe for art, culture and entertainment.
 

Farah Yurdozu talks with Jerry about this weekends major event in New York City, Culture of Contact. It will be held Friday thru Sunday, July 22 thru 24, 2007.

In this interview, Jerry talks with Farah about the event, and the discussion centers around UFO sightings in New York City and Farah's Turkish heritage, including her Tarot Card reading expertise.

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New York City UFO Community Leader and head of the Intruders Foundation - Budd Hopkins

Abductees.

David Huggins - New Jersey Abductee
 and artist
 

Harold Egeln - NYC UFO researcher and
group organizer

Bill and Nancy Birnes -
UFO Magazine Publishers

Steve Bassett -
Disclosure and Exopolitics Activist