The Cardwell UFO Festival 2019
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 12:27 pm
Firstly, I will apologise in advance if I’ve posted this in the wrong Forum. I wasn’t sure if it should be here or in the Off Topic Forum.
The small seaside village of Cardwell (the very same town that Cyclone Yasi obliterated in 2011), held their annual UFO Festival in August this year. It was the first one I had been to, but had been meaning to go for the last few years. What a pleasant surprise! The good citizens of Cardwell - all 1039 of ‘em, really throw themselves into the spirit of the event!
In 2013 a father & son were out & about one evening in Summer when they spotted & video recorded 2 white lights loop-the-looping & generally flying in a tandem but controlled way over the Coral Sea just off Cardwell. Their video made news headlines across Australia & hence, The Cardwell UFO Festival was born.
Like I said, the entire community throw themselves into the spirit of things there - shops are decked out in all sorts of displays relating to Aliens & UFOs, the townspeople dress up, the kids have a Lantern Parade along Cardwell Jetty, food stalls & live bands are playing. But, the best thing about this little soirée was The C Files. C being for Cardwell & Files taking a page out of the X Files TV series, one can only assume!
The C Files are a Forum of sorts where guest speakers from around Australia, are invited to speak & share of their work in the UFO/Paramormal/Cryptozoology realms. This year there were Ben Hurle from Victorian UFO research group VUFOA & Cryptozooligist Rex Gilroy. Very interesting morning session listening to these 2 gents. Both had slideshows, photographs & Yowie foot casts on display & anyone from the public was also invited up to the mic to share their own UFO/Yowie experiences at the end of the session.
I was impressed with how this small community has rallied back after the devastation of Yasi to have a festival of this caliber - the ONLY UFO Festival in Australia, mind you. Good on ‘em & I’ll definitely be back there next year!
cardwellufofestival.com.au
The small seaside village of Cardwell (the very same town that Cyclone Yasi obliterated in 2011), held their annual UFO Festival in August this year. It was the first one I had been to, but had been meaning to go for the last few years. What a pleasant surprise! The good citizens of Cardwell - all 1039 of ‘em, really throw themselves into the spirit of the event!
In 2013 a father & son were out & about one evening in Summer when they spotted & video recorded 2 white lights loop-the-looping & generally flying in a tandem but controlled way over the Coral Sea just off Cardwell. Their video made news headlines across Australia & hence, The Cardwell UFO Festival was born.
Like I said, the entire community throw themselves into the spirit of things there - shops are decked out in all sorts of displays relating to Aliens & UFOs, the townspeople dress up, the kids have a Lantern Parade along Cardwell Jetty, food stalls & live bands are playing. But, the best thing about this little soirée was The C Files. C being for Cardwell & Files taking a page out of the X Files TV series, one can only assume!
The C Files are a Forum of sorts where guest speakers from around Australia, are invited to speak & share of their work in the UFO/Paramormal/Cryptozoology realms. This year there were Ben Hurle from Victorian UFO research group VUFOA & Cryptozooligist Rex Gilroy. Very interesting morning session listening to these 2 gents. Both had slideshows, photographs & Yowie foot casts on display & anyone from the public was also invited up to the mic to share their own UFO/Yowie experiences at the end of the session.
I was impressed with how this small community has rallied back after the devastation of Yasi to have a festival of this caliber - the ONLY UFO Festival in Australia, mind you. Good on ‘em & I’ll definitely be back there next year!
cardwellufofestival.com.au
not sure how to right that folks, sorry!