Professor Goldberg drew an even bigger audience than political scientist Dr Dallas Houston, whose address on "Invertebrate Congressmen Of The Twentieth Century" had been expected to be the main drawcard.
Professor Goldberg reminded his audience that all amateur Astronomers and even two professional astrologers have heard of the famous Hubble's constant.
American astronomer Edwin Hubble had, by 1925, demonstrated that many nebulae were galaxies beyond our own rather than artefacts of our galaxy.
By 1929 he had amassed evidence which made him conclude that the red shift in the spectrum of other galaxies was the product of recession, and that the further galaxies were away from us the faster they were receding.
This ultimately contributed to the now discredited Big Bang Theory. His law states that the recessional velocity of any galaxy is proportional to its distance.
This, however took the entirely illogical view that matter receding from a finite point following on the original Big Bang would move faster the further away it was from the epicentre, which considering how minute that finite point was, resulted in the absurd picture of galaxies defying the gravitational pull of each other.
This point is further highlighted by the fact of Halton Arp conclusively showing that massive objects such as quasars can actually attenuate light towards the red end of the spectrum by gravitational means alone.
Professor Goldberg was amazed that such an undoubted genius as Albert Einstein, having grasped the principle of gravitational lensing, utterly failed to take the next logical step of recognising that if gravity can bend light, it can also slow it down - or speed it up using the "Slingshot Effect".
He said that in consequence the distance scale of the universe is seriously flawed and that the Hubble Constant was a very pretty, however totally unreliable tool.
The other great mistake inherent in this was the assumption that the time taken by light to travel from other galaxies was a true measure of distance, he said, rather than wondering if the inferred distance was a product of the way light behaved rather than an accurate measure.
Light is after all not travelling through "empty" space or even space with a low density of atoms, but really a thick soup of sub-atomic particles not apparent to us until they become atomic particles.
He contends that the force of light travelling through this sub-atomic soup serves to kick start many into some as yet only partly understood mating ritual after which they vindicate in part the "Steady State Theory” and are apparently created in our universe.
In this process, light loses energy and therefore velocity.
Alien civilizations not bedevilled by our dark age of science had either found a way to travel other than the way light does, or interstellar distances were not as great as imagined.
He considers that they may have found short cuts by devising means to travel through this sub-atomic sea rather than through our observable universe.
He said that numerous UFO sightings in and around Roswell attested to considerable traffic up there, while even a cursory examination of the guest registers of some of the more popular motels showed names such as Mr and Mrs Darth Vader, Buck Rogers, and Flash Gordon to mention just a few.
Aliens are obviously continually amongst us and making little secret of it, except, of course, to reactionary scientists with unprepared minds.
Then again, in Roswell they are among friends and comfortable about revealing themselves.
Visitations to planet Earth then are so well documented by utterly reliable sources that our professional Astronomers must sadly have got it all wrong.
Hubble is not entirely to blame, he said, and clearly deserves an "E" for effort, but later professionals eager to toe the party line and keep their tenure have much to answer for in slavishly following an old script without question.
The full transcript of Professor Goldberg's address is to be broadcast on Roswell Community Radio on all frequencies including the Hydrogen Alpha (for the benefit of the alien audience).
Meanwhile, the Professor has been invited to lecture to the Austin Astronomy Society on April 1, 2005.