The Invaders over East Mesa 1999

Client: Joan Marie Edwards and Lori Marie McDonald

Media: India inks, ball point pens, Bic pens, Berol Prisma pencils, markers, Pentel color pens, and NO paints whatsoever.

This drawing started in April of 1999 and was not finished until it became a late Y2K (Year 2000) finished part of my UFO art collection.

In April of 1999 the drawing began as a sketch render for a greeting card that my wife's mother wanted for her correspondence. I was uninclined. My wife and mother-in-law insisted and my father-in-law saw to it that it became a marital issue. Lori's Mom got her local Arizona Saguaro cactus forest sketch and I have to admit, the greeting card looked great.

Mom Edwards and my wife, her youngest daughter really put their heart and souls into the card's production. Later, I added the La Sendas or Tonto Pines home, the neighbor and the George Adamski Venusian "Scoutships" plus the Quinn Martin-Larry Cohen (with actor Roy Thinnes) "The Invaders" saucer craft.

Many years later, a 1950s and '60s era Laguna Beach UFO abductee appropriately described this class of landing ships as an "Inverted chicken breeder" designer UFO craft.