Members of the White Oak Golden K Kiwanis Club received an unusual history lesson Thursday as CPA Ben R. Loggins walked them through the long, winding story of the 1947 Roswell incident.

Loggins has spent more than two decades digging into the case through annual trips to New Mexico, interviews with researchers and eyewitnesses, and a 2013 excavation at one of the alleged crash sites.

He said his interest began after his daughter worked on a website for a television series about extraterrestrials.

That project led the family to Roswell’s annual UFO Festival, where Loggins attended lectures and met figures tied to the case, including Travis Walton, whose reported 1977 abduction inspired the film “Fire in the Sky.”

A crash and an immediate reversal

Loggins walked the club through the or

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