Small creatures from outer space with long arms, gray skin, pear-shaped heads and a varying number of eyes are the topic of a four-day conference on UFOs.
Forty-five "UFOlogists" from 20 countries are discussing and evaluating their findings before an audience of 1,800 people who paid $250 to attend the conference that ends Sunday.Entitled "Dialogue with the Universe," the event was organized by Munich publisher Michael Hesemann, who announced, "There has never been a UFO conference of this size in the whole world."
But two West German UFO organizations accused the conference organizer of "making a lot of money selling putative scientific findings to gullible people."
Nonetheless, Hesemann said his UFO conference aims at "overcoming just a little bit the enormous lack of information" Germans have on extraterrestrials and "finding ways to contact extraterrestrials."