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Though the military started backtracking within hours, concocting a cover story recently acknowledged to be phony that it was just a weather balloon, the little green men had invaded the public consciousness and were here to stay.Over the past five decades, the UFO craze of the summer of has grown into a vast and complex subculture. And in the past five years it has exploded on the Internet, where commune with and do battle with professional skeptics.But the town of Roswell remains ground zero. The first X File. The granddaddy of all close encounters.The desert retirement town located miles from anywhere, mostly forgotten until the city fathers decided to hop on the UFO bandwagon a few years ago, has become a mecca for thousands of saucer eyed pilgrims.On July 1, as many as 100,000 UFO devotees are expected to descend on sleepy Roswell for a wild, weeklong festival celebrating the golden anniversary of the still mysterious Roswell Incident that started it all.Twenty TV satellite t...