Come look for aliens this Saturday at the Burien UFO Festival and Metaphysical Fair.

The Burien UFO festival kicks off again Saturday, 5-10 p.m., after a two-year hiatus due to Covid. The event will be in the Burien Town Square Park, 480 SW 152nd St. The non profit organization Discover Burien is conducting the event.

Since 2014, the Burien UFO festival, or BUFO, has brought together believers and skeptics alike for a day of extraterrestrial excursions. 

This year BUFO has expanded to feature a metaphysical fair with local vendors and artists, along with a presentation of alien debris, called slag in the ufology world, from the Maury Island incident, in which UFOs were spotted over Maury Island in 1947. 

The slag is being brought to BUFO by the Seattle Museum of Mysterious and will be unveiled at 6 p.m. Live music from the musical duo Guardian Alien will play from 7-8:30 p.m. as well. 

In the meantime participate in a scavenger hunt or costume contest, before the big finale at 9:15 p.m. The film The Maury Island Incident will play, produced by the founders of BUFO, John White and Scott Schaefer.

BUFO was initially started by White to showcase the film he produced about the 1947 UFO sightings over Maury Island, Washington.

And so in 2014 the first BUFO was held in the theater of the Tin Room restaurant in old Burien. White produced the film with Scott Schaefer and Steve Edminston, who will all be attending the showing this weekend. 

“I went in, a skeptic and came out a believer. There is something out there people have seen,” said Schaefer of his time producing The Maury Island Incident. 

Schaefer, the founder and editor of the B-Town Blog and a Highline alumnus, said while he has not witnessed any extraterrestrial happenings, personally he is a believer. 

“There’s no way we can be alone in this universe,” said Schaefer, who has been involved in ufology for years and worked for the ‘90s Paramount show Sightings.

“I’m there to show the film and have fun,” said Schaefer.