By Kirby Neumann-Rea • Of the News-Register • May 26, 2023 TweetBack, and Forth: Bearded space-fly guy comes in peaceRachel Thompson/News-Register##Celebrating the life-giving properties of earth-bound insects is Todd Severson of McMinnville as “bearded peacock-feather space fly guy” on the Chapul Farms float. But after seeing my second full-on version of the McMinnville UFO Festival, held May 19-20, I think “space is the limit” for this annual extraterrestrial extravaganza. I’m beginning to think you have to go with the passion and the numbers and call the UFO Festival this community’s signature festival. What inspires something like the UFO Festival? One example of serious-fun UFO-themed applications was, literally, earthbound — the Chapul Farms van, a rolling Zug-art mural, featuring gangly arms fashioned from metal drink containers.