'World's biggest' UFO convention descending on HK

Non-believers, you have been warned. The world's biggest UFO conference is set to be held in the city next year.

Hong Kong alienophiles and their global brethren who believe we are not alone will come together at a yet-to-be confirmed venue on November 9, 2009 for the summit and exhibition.

Organiser Neil Gould - who claims to have first been contacted by aliens as a nine-year-old, said there was no cosmic significance to the date. However, he said Hong Kong had always been a popular place for extraterrestrial visitors, and expects the conference to attract thousands of experts and curious citizens from across planet Earth.

The Hong Kong Observatory has been logging reports of UFO sightings since 1984 and receives as many as 40 such reports a year. One of the most famous alleged alien encounters in the city occurred in 1987, when callers flooded the Observatory with reports of a spaceship the size of six football pitches hovering over the Wah Fu Estate in Aberdeen.

Mr Gould said the study of UFOs and extraterrestrial life is a serious academic pursuit these days, known as exopolitics. The conference would present the latest research from academics as well as photographs, video footage and other evidence of the existence of aliens.

'This planet is being engaged by extraterrestrials, there is no doubt about it, and we want to show the evidence to Hong Kong and the people of the world,' he said.

'One of the focuses of the conference will be to demand the US intelligence services open up their UFO files. There is a vast conspiracy by the industrial-military complex to hide some of what they have learned, such as vacuum energy and an anti-gravity flying device. Imagine how this could help Hong Kong and the world.