 Bertrand died in 1998, and Hunt in 2011.In 2010, the Exeter Kiwanis Club started the "Exeter UFO Festival" as a fundraiser to benefit children's charities in the Exeter area.In 2011, Joe Nickell, a prominent skeptic, and James McGaha, Major, USAF retired, proposed a possible explanation for the incident in the "Skeptical Inquirer".