N.h. Town’s Ufo Fest A Celebration Of (other) Life

EXETER, N.H. — They say a lightning strike started a fire in the Exeter, New Hampshire, Town Hall that caused the cancellation of a UFO festival the first year it was hosted by the local Kiwanis Club. That’s what they say anyway. (Cue the eerie music and get Steven Spielberg on the line right away.) Fifty years ago, a frightened 18-year-old high school graduate and future Navy seaman named Norman Muscarello told police he had seen an unidentified flying object.