MILLER, 'ALIENS' TO CONVERGE

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From:psychospy@aol.com (PsychoSpy)
Title: MILLER, 'ALIENS' TO CONVERGE
Source:Las Vegas Review-Journal
Date:March 22, 1996


By Ed Vogel

CARSON CITY--Sensing a chance for a publicity bonanza, Gov. Bob

Miller has decided to dedicate the state's Extraterrestrial

Highway on April 18 as part of a promotion for a hot Hollywood

alien movie.

Stars of "Independence Day," a movie about an alien attack on the

Earth, will make the trip with Miller to Rachel, 140 miles north

of Las Vegas, to dedicate Highway 375 as Nevada's Extraterrestrial

Highway.

Large signs proclaiming the 98-mile highway north of the Nevada

Test Site as a haven for aliens Will be unveiled during special

ceremonies. UFO experts also will be on hand to lead discussions.

The state Transportation Board, chaired by Miller, proclaimed the

road as the Extraterrestrial Highway on Feb. 1. The highway is

just north of the secret Area 51 base where the Air Force is

believed to have tested the stealth, U-2 and other aircraft.

UFO buffs also claim aliens and their downed aircraft have been

taken to the base for study.

Besides unveiling the signs April 18, "Independence Day" producers

will dedicate a monument for the movie. The monument is supposed

to serve as a beacon for outer-space visitors.

The movie will not be released nationally until July 3, but

producers plan a celebration on April 17 in Las Vegas during which

selected scenes will be shown.

Scenes from the movie, starring Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum,

were filmed in West Wendover and Wendover, Utah. "Independence

Day" is being tabbed as one of the summer's top movies.

Since the Extraterrestrial Highway was proclaimed, the state has

been bombarded by requests for information, said Richard Urey,

Miller's press secretary.

Miller visited Los Angeles last month to talk to Twentieth Century

Fox, the distributor of "Independence Day," about tying the road

dedication in with the movie.

State government officials did not plan to announce the dedication

ceremonies until next week, but "Independence Day" producers

surprised them with a Wednesday release out of Hollywood.