Found this on the site of Albuquerque Journal:=20 Date of publication:Thursday, 17-Apr-97 10:18:48 MDT=20 Roswell's UFO Party Wobbles Cult Spooks Sponsors From Festival's Concert, Television Bash By Leslie Linthicum Journal Staff Writer The Heaven's Gate cult mass suicide apparently has claimed another victim: An all-night rock concert and two-hour television special planned for the 50th anniversary celebration of the purported UFO crash in Roswell has fizzled, in part because potential sponsors were scared away by the deaths near San Diego last month. =20 The 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed suicide to shed their "human containers" and climb aboard an alien spacecraft they believed to be trailing the comet Hale-Bopp. =20 Heaven's Gate had no known link to Roswell or any of the events planned there this summer to commemorate the 1947 crash of an alleged flying saucer outside of Roswell, but it apparently spooked potential advertisers. "What we heard last week is that the companies are running scared because they don't want to be connected in any way, shape or form with the tragedy in San Diego," said Deon Crosby, director of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. =20 She said local organizers now are working on their own to find sponsors and acts for a scaled-down concert while the rest of the six-day festival is still a go. "It appears we were New Yorked to death," said Stan Crosby, Deon Crosby's husband and chairman of the Roswell UFO Encounters Committee, a team of volunteers putting on the festival. =20 The concert was being promoted by Track Marketing, a New York company. No one from the company returned calls Wednesday, and Stan Crosby said he has not heard from anyone at Track Marketing since the firm faxed him a letter releasing the UFO Encounters Committee from an exclusive sponsorship provision in their contract. That release allows the committee to seek local sponsors. Lee Heiman, a Track Marketing employee, told U.S. News & World Report magazine last month that the [27 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=04_1997&mid=3007542&hilit=UFO> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 04_1997&2931244 Score: 88 Subject: Re: Duh! (was Skeptics admit defeat, 'UFOs are real!' )