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I know there was a question on another thread about selling tickets to CooperCon 2021.

There will be a ticket price attached to the two-day conference portion of CooperCon--not the social events each evening starting on Friday, November 19th. I believe it will be $20 for both days total. In other words, $20 gets you a ticket good for both days.

The tickets will be available online through Kiggins' website, I believe starting this week. Also, I'll be launching a website this week which will direct people to the Kiggins' ticket portal.

Tickets will also be available at the door as was the case in 2018, but I wouldn't recommend it. After all, I expect a full house this year given the significance of the 50-year anniversary and that there will be a significant amount of media attention focused on the event--I believe even from the UK and Australia.

This year's event is only the beginning. My plan is to grow this into an annual week-long festival every November that celebrates the legends of the Pacific Northwest including Big Foot and purported "Flying Saucer" activity in the region. That said, DBC will serve as the primary thrust of CooperCon going forward and is intended to provide an experience that is festive, fun and informative.

Fer gawds sake EU, don't bring the big foot and flying saucer nutcases into the Cooper investigation!  Leave them in their own world.  Big foot and flying saucers have been thoroughly investigated and proven false.  This is not to say that there are some animals and fish that have never been identified or that all flying objects have been explained to the general public.  But just leave the nutcases in their own world.

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Fer gawds sake EU, don't bring the big foot and flying saucer nutcases into the Cooper investigation!  Leave them in their own world....

Too late, Robert. We're already here. In fact, we've been here for some time. For details, come to the Mountain News. I'll be posting my most recent insights shortly on my alien abduction experiences.

Ta da....

Just had a lengthy conversation with Marla Wynn Cooper and can confirm that she will be attending and on stage at CC21.

They can do anything they want at THEIR Coopercon21 - even... dancing bears... and more dancing bears...

I’m stoked! And you can count on The Cooper Vortex to help spread the word!

(Sorry about the joke above, couldn't resist. Hopefully someone got a chuckle out of it.)

On a more serious note...

CooperCon sounds like an interesting affair. I wish I could attend. I would especially be interested in Mark Meltzer (377)'s and Marty Andrade's presentations. Hopefully you will video all the presentations/discussions and make them available at some point.

On reading of Andrade's presentation regarding the survivability of Cooper's jump, I reviewed that section of his book. I found it interesting and appropriate his comparison to WWII bailout statistics. Not sure if this is the appropriate place, but I would like to offer him a bit of info to consider:

You mention that Cooper jumped 'without a working reserve'. True, he did not have a 'second-chance' parachute, but it should be noted that the bailout rig he used IS a reserve. I believe the malfunction rate you cited was for sport main parachutes. Often, sport mains have design features meant for higher flight performance that introduce malfunction possibilities. Para-Commander type canopies, popular in those days, are a prime example of this. They are also packed by the user, 'in the field', often several times a day. The design and construction of Cooper's reserve-type parachute, plus the fact that it is inspected and packed by a licensed FAA rigger under the controlled environment of a rigging loft, would give it a malfunction rate much lower than that of a sport main.