Mark your calendar: Roswell’s annual UFO Festival is July 3.

The pet costume contest will be judged at 10 a.m. at the Roswell Museum and Art Center. (Wrapping turtles in foil to resemble spaceships is not an original idea.)

The alien costume contest for “humans and other creatures” takes place at 3 p.m. at the Pearson Auditorium on the New Mexico Military Institute campus. (Every character that ever appeared in a Star Trek episode has made an appearance.)

The street parade, which features many of the costume contestants, begins at 7:30 p.m.

Whether you believe aliens crashed at Roswell in 1947 or not, plenty of strange characters will be in town July 3.

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