Yelm hoping to draw crowds to first UFO weekend festival

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Yelm hoping to draw crowds to first UFO weekend festival

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YELM, Wash. (AP) — The first Yelm UFO Fest is set to launch this weekend, and organizers are preparing to welcome visitors from beyond. Or at least beyond Yelm.
The festival, which is free to the public, will feature more than 15 musical performances, a beer garden with a specially bottled Alien Pale Ale brewed by Olympia's Fish Brewing Company, and "out of this world" food vendors, according to Cameron Jayne, director of arts at Yelm's Triad Arts Theater, one of the organizations that organized the festival.

"It's gonna be like Woodstock," Jayne said. "This is kinda like a Yelmstock."

The UFO Fest runs Friday through Sunday in a field next to Yelm Cinemas at Prairie Park. Seating is festival-style, so if you plan to enjoy the musical acts and other performers, organizers recommend bringing a blanket or chair.

If that sounds a little too down-to-earth, the festival also features the Cosmic Symposium, a speaker series at Triad Arts Theater that Jayne says will provide a platform for alternative thinkers and scientists who veer from the mainstream.

Tickets to the symposium are $250 for a three-day pass and between $100 and $150 per day. Proceeds from the symposium fund speakers' travel and boarding costs, according to Jayne.