Friday, April 8, 5-7pm, there will be a reception and presentation. In the Terrace Gallery, where Robert Hunter’s artworks depicting flying saucers are installed, Barry Koplen, a writer as well as a photographer, will talk about a UFO sighting he and three others experienced, and which he detailed in his book, Close Encounter at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia. The talk accompanies Robert Hunter’s exhibit, Saucer Dreams, that explores the subject “Flying Saucers” in both a Pop Art and in a Neo Surreal context. New data is constantly being discovered regarding UFO sightings, therefore my presentations over the years since this encounter have offered more information and invited different questions. “What the four of us saw that night while on the balcony of a summer cottage at Smith Mountain Lake, less than forty miles from Roanoke VA, raised so many questions about beliefs, even beliefs in deities, that I had to describe my thoughts and my feelings in hopes of better understanding them.” From: Close Encounter at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia by Barry Koplen