Read more: See hereThe Carbondalien Festival marks the 50th anniversary of the infamous incident near Russell Park in Carbondale that many believe was a UFO crash landing on Nov. 9, 1974. The festival will be held Saturday at the park on 11th Avenue and along Main Street in the city's downtown from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The event is hosted by the Carbondale Arts Alliance and will have vendors, food trucks, speakers, art and live music.
Nicole Curtis, the Carbondalien Festival's organizer, ⁘Carbondalien-in-Chief⁘ and co-owner of the City Line Shop Cafe in Carbondale, was inspired to start the festival as an alien art walk after seeing how art helped save other nearby small towns.
Many townspeople are not aware of the UFO event since many did not want to discuss it for fear of being ridiculed. There were many sightings of the UFO that allegedly crashed from around the county, from the Scranton area to Carbondale, according to Curtis.
According to the newspaper archives, the legend began on Nov. 9, 1974, when three teenage boys alerted police after witnessing a ⁘red, whirring ball⁘ fall from the sky and into a mine pond. The incident drew police, military and the curious to the city and concluded with a dive team pulling a battery-powered mine lantern from the pond.
Curtis started planning for the Carbondalien Festival a year ago by looking for an artist to design an alien and reached out to Jennifer Forgione, known as JFo, studio artist of JFo Generation in Spring Brook Twp.
Forgione's mother was an eyewitness to the UFO while observing the sky at her home in Dunmore. This synchronistic event is "why I am so passionate about it and it is a very good thing," said Forgione, who is excited to participate in the festival linked to her mother's UFO sighting.
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