The organizers are offering DVDs of all lectures for sale. I suspect that the UFO Museum will do the same, but I can’t seem to find any reference to this on their site quite yet.

The UFO Museum seems to have little or no sense of humor. I took a peek at their library and Project Beta and Bodysnatchers in the Desert were not on their extensive shelves.

You’re right that the convention was better as a result of the open floorplan and schedule.

The panel discussion on Sunday afternoon was entitled “The Disclosure Debate,” but there was very little debate about the subject. I attempted to interject my opinion that there was little to disclose, and that the powers that be have a better stake in keeping us in the dark on how much they actually know. This probably crossed me off Stephen Bassett’s list of people to invite to the X-Conference, but who knows? I don’t know him that well.

It sounds like a bit of a change from 2002, when I was the only person to laugh at Jim Moseley’s jokes, and the museum informed him he would not be invited back. The museum had also scheduled a Raelian representative, until I think they realized it was they had done, and cancelled. The Anti-UFO Christians across the street, Alien Resistance, let the guy speak there instead. I still don’t understand that.

Anyway, I’m glad to hear your quite diverse panel got on well. People complain about the carnival atmosphere, but I have to imagine a fun environment is more conducive to cooperation than the sterile and uncomfortable back rooms and endless unmarked hallways of convention centers.

Sounds like you are suffering from heat exhaustion or some kind of Roswell related dementia.

Seriously, though, great recap. You made me wish I’d attended.

Sorry for our lack of correspondence during my San Diego trip, but it was only a 5 day affair, so my free time was actually quite limited and I think you were Roswell bound for a good portion of my SD visit.