2012 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
All events requiring passes are held at
the McMinnville Community Center (600 NE Evans St.),
two blocks from McMenamins Hotel Oregon.
All events are free and welcome to all ages (unless noted).

*** WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012 ***

As a lead-in to the UFO Festival...

History Pub
Tim Hills, McMenamins Historian tells the the Trent story.
7 p.m. • Mattie's Room at Hotel Oregon • Free • All ages

*** FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012 ***

All events are open to guests of all ages and free, unless noted.

McMinnville UFO Festival Video Contest [Entry/Info PDF]
3 p.m. ’til 7 p.m. • 3rd St. Pizza Co./Moonlight Theater • Loop of all entries

UFO Speaker: Donald R. Schmitt
Schmitt is the former co-director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, where he served as Director of Special Investigations for ten years. Schmitt is the author of dozens of articles about UFOs, as well as the co-author of two best-selling books, UFO Crash at Roswell (Avon, 1991 and Witness to Roswell (New Page, 2007), and The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell (M. Evans, 1994). He is also the author of Roswell: The Chronological Pictorial (Moonset Entertainment Group). Schmitt has led and organized the only three archaeological digs at the Roswell crash/debris field, conducted in 1989, 2002, and 2006.

Doors at 6 p.m.; event at 7 p.m. • McMinnville Community Center
$10 per person, available online or at the door (3-event bundle also available online)
Food and beverage will be available for purchase.

Live music by Kirby Swatosh & The Moon Rock Patrol
7 p.m. • Cellar Bar at Hotel Oregon • 21 & over

Live music by Yarn
As part of the Great Northwest Music Tour
8 p.m. • Mattie's Room at Hotel Oregon

Movie in the Tent
Mars Attacks! (1996)
8 p.m. doors; 9 p.m. film• Tent on N.E. Evans St. at Hotel Oregon

Live broadcast with Clyde Lewis of Ground Zero
9 p.m. ’til 12 midnight • Paragon Room at Hotel Oregon

*** SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012 ***

All events are open to guests of all ages and free, unless noted.

Food, Beer & Gift Tent
9 a.m. 'til 5 p.m. • Evans St. • All items available for purchase

UFO Speaker: Yvonne R. Smith
UFO abduction researcher Smith (known in UFO circles as "Hypnotherapist Yvonne") received her hypnotherapy certification in 1990, specializing in cases of post-traumatic stress disorder. Smith has observed that many of her PTSD cases involved subjects with similar patterns of UFO abduction encounters.

Doors at 9 a.m.; event at 10 a.m. • McMinnville Community Center
$10 per person, available online or at the door (3-event bundle also available online)
Food and drinks will be available for purchase.

McMinnville UFO Festival Video Contest [Entry/Info PDF]
12 noon • 3rd St. Pizza Co./Moonlight Theater • Single showing of all entries

Movie: The Hidden Hand
The Hidden Hand is an EBE Award winning documentary that explores the possibility of an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.
12:30 p.m. • McMinnville Community Center
$5 per person or Free with Saturday Speaker's Forum ticket or 3-day Pass

UFO Costume Parade
2 p.m. • Third St.
To march in the UFO Costume Parade please read and submit the UFO Parade Entry Form

Third Street Dance! Featuring Garcia Birthday Band
Immediately following the parade ’til 5 p.m. • Third St. at Hotel Oregon
After GBB's float wraps their parade appearance, come "dancin’ in the streets" as they park in front of the hotel for a few more hours of 'Grateful Jams'!

A performance by Willamette Radio Workshop
3 p.m. • Mattie's Room at Hotel Oregon

Alien Pet Costume Contest
Bring your pets, dressed in their alien best!
4 p.m. • 2nd Ave. at Cowls

UFO Speaker: Tom Reed
Tom is the son of a prominent former Connecticut mayor and attorney. Reed is now known as part of a multigenerational alien abduction case – he and his brother Matthew, his mother Nancy and his grandmother have a documented history of multi-generational abductions that date back to 1954. The family began reporting their alien involvement to local authorities, MUFON and aerospace groups in the mid-1980s, while their individual cases have been investigated by several groups for more than 20 years.

Doors at 4 p.m.; event at 5 p.m. • McMinnville Community Center
$10 per person, available online or at the door (3-event bundle also available online)
Food and drinks will be available for purchase.

McMinnville UFO Festival Video Contest [Entry/Info PDF]
6 p.m. • 3rd St. Pizza Co./Moonlight Theater • Single showing of all entries
7 p.m. • 3rd St. Pizza Co./Moonlight Theater • Awards Ceremony and screening for entrants and their families, with remaining tickets available to the public

Live music by Kirby Swatosh & The Moon Rock Patrol
7 p.m. • Cellar Bar at Hotel Oregon • 21 & over

Alien Costume Ball
Featuring the live music from Big Mama Gayle & Her Sugar Daddies
8 p.m. 'til 11 p.m. • Mattie's Room at Hotel Oregon

Live music by Vivid Curve
8 p.m. 'til 11 p.m. • Paragon Room at Hotel Oregon