UFO Sightings in the Hudson Valley

[RWC130 594]

"Night Siege"

The Hudson Valley

UFO Sightings

Written by Dr. J. Allen Hynek

Do you remember back in the late 1980's and early 1990's all of the UFO Sightings

in the Hudson Valley area? It was found to be a hoax by pilots out of Stormville.

The TV show Unsolved Mysteries did a whole episode on it featuring Peekskill, Yorktown, and various other areas including the Taconic State Parkway.

I remember they interviewed a Yorktown Police Dispatcher.

This went on for a while and had caused a lot of panic.

I remember seeing the object myself on numerous occations.

I just saw on www.amazon.com that a book was published about the sightings.

Despite its ominous title, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt is a sensible, sober book on the subject of unexplained aerial phenomena. Witnesses to the events and active participants in the investigation during the period described, the authors have limited the book to examining the dramatic 13 - year UFO wave that took place over the Hudson River Valley from 1982 through 1995. During that period, the UFOs were seen by an estimated 7,000 people and reported to authorities by at least a tenth of that number.

The "boomerang - shaped," brightly - lit UFOs behaved like brazen tricksters and interactive provocateurs during their reign of the night skies. Most often described as "bigger than a football field," the silent objects flew less that 500 feet above heavily populated commercial and residential areas, stopped traffic on freeways, turned sideways and spiraled through the air like Ferris wheels, dived into and flew out of bodies of water, hovered over single homes and cars for minutes on end, responded to lights flashed in their direction with dramatic light displays of their own, and disappeared over the horizon in bursts of unbelievable acceleration. Several witnesses reported that the objects dematerialized - or "vanished" - right before their eyes.

On the night of July 24th 1990, an enormous, apparently nonchalant UFO hovered over the Indian Point Nuclear Reactor Complex and came within thirty feet of the only reactor in operation. Awestruck plant personnel had the object on camera for more than fifteen minutes, and were given tentative orders to shoot it down. Helpless police officers confronted the UFOs and repeatedly explained to panicked callers that they did not know what the objects were. The FAA reported that witnesses were seeing nothing more than small lightweight planes flying together in formation, an explanation few accepted. The national media ignored the sightings year after year.

However, identically - described objects were reported in the area as early as the mid - Fifties, and have been reported in subsequent decades from countries all over the world. Commonly known today as "black triangles," a number of theorists - experts and amateurs alike - believe the triangles are the product of United States "black operations" military programs. The most common theory is that the objects are enormous "solid dirigibles," or "stealth blimps," that function as transportation systems for large numbers of soldiers and masses of heavy equipment.

Were the Hudson Valley UFOs secret advanced - model solid dirigibles? If so, why did they repeatedly fly over areas where they would inevitably be seen by a great number of affluent, educated people? What practical purpose could their colorful, complex light patterns have had? If the objects were created to carry government troops, why has no soldier come forward to discuss his or her experience on such a vessel? If the United States has access to such incredibly advanced technology, why weren't these ships utilized in recent wars? Why are the United State's space shuttles still built with comparatively rudimentary and unreliable technology?

Though the presented evidence often seems highly credible, it is difficult to accept that the United States government, as it is generally understood to exist, can presently create and control objects like those reported here. Nor is there any sound reason to believe that the Hudson Valley UFOs were extraterrestrial craft. Interpreted imaginatively, the objects seem like nothing so much as highly advanced, unmanned investigatory probes or other scientific tools -- immense to us but tiny, perhaps even microscopic, to their creators -- from some greater plane of reality that were intermittently thrust into mankind's perception, and then removed from it with equal ease. Like objective correlatives to the allegory of Plato's Cave, the objects seemed like tangible, mocking proof that the universe is a much stranger place than mankind, with its dogmatic "consensus reality," wants to accept. This is true regardless of the genuine facts concerning their nature and origin.

The authors remain admirably restrained and objective throughout, hesitantly putting forth ideas but drawing no conclusions (except for one unfortunate slip in Chapter 16 when the UFOs are described as "something [that is] not of this Earth"). A number of witnesses of the phenomena-including police officers -- are quoted at length. Reports of alien abduction phenomena, what some witnesses called "telepathic communication" with the object, and CE - IIIs are noted but left purposefully undiscussed. As Jung concluded in his "Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies," "Something is seen, but what?"

After searching a little on the internet I found this on www.forteantimes.com

MICROLIGHTS?

Dave Belanger

This is not a story of an a UFO encounter, but one of how convincing something thought to be can seem, even after it's been debunked.

Sometime during the late 80s or early 90s ( I can't remember exactly when, though the case received a ot of a attention. The story was even featured on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.) there was a wave of UFO sightings near where I lived in Mahopac NY. People on certain nights of the week, for over a year, people reported seeing a large, triangular shaped craft that made no sound in the skies. People reported sightings from an area that ranged from the upper parts of Westchester County to parts of southern Dutchess County, a range of about 30-40 miles. I recall the case got attention from UFO groups, as well as the Air Force, and even investigators like J. Allen Hynek.

Eventually, however, the whole thing was revealed to be a hoax. A group of private pilots admitted to flying out of Stormville Airport in Stormville, NY. They would fly for a distance in formation, then glide for a while with their engines off.

A few weeks after the debunking appeared in the local paper, I was driving home from Yorktown, NY with my brother, along Rte 118. We decided to take a shortcut through the small villaage of Shenorock. A few minutes into Shenorock, my brother suddenly pointed to the sky and said "What the f--- is that?" I looked up to see a huge triangular shaped object in the sky, its shape traced by several white lights. It made no sound and was barely moving. At first, we thought we were looking at a bonafide UFO. We got out of the car and stood transfixed, watching the thing. Then, I remembered reading about the debunking. I told my brother it was the group of pilots and their hoax.

Needless, to say, we got back in the car and went home.

WOW.... I remember looking up at them!

[gpdexplorer 46]

My dad told me about those. He saw them in transit from Ossining (Work) to Wappingers (Home).

[BIGRED1 71]

i think it was real. i am sure some guys copied the real one. 7 planes can't hover over a house with their engines off or even on for that matter. and how did these hoaxers manage to get a solid object between all of their planes to make the one large structure? hmmm i do remember the Unsolved Mysteries show on this subject. i am sure there is still alot of UFO activity going on up there.

[JohnnyOV 2]

My parents saw them while they were driveing down the taconic...They along with a bunch of others stopped along the side of the road to watch the UFO's