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ParaNet File Number: 00261
DATE OF UPLOAD: August 27, 1989
ORIGIN OF UPLOAD: ParaNet Alpha/Denver, Colorado
CONTRIBUTED BY: R. Perry Collins
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ParaNet Information Service, Denver, CO--Recently, Phil
Imbrogno unleashed an attack on R. Perry Collins regarding the
following articles (Wingpt1.ufo and Wingpt2.ufo). By permission
of the author, R. Perry Collins, we are reproducing these two
articles on ParaNet. They are entitled The Westchester Wing - A
Closer Look and The Westchester Wing Part II. These articles
appeared in Pursuit Magazine in 1985.
THE WESTCHESTER WING -- A CLOSER LOOK
BY R. Perry Collins
From the spring of 1983 to the summer and fall of 1984, the
counties of Westchester, New York and Fairfield, Conneticut were
the focus of one of the largest UFO waves in history. An
estimated 30,000 individuals in these areas witnessed an
extremely large, obviously structured, triangular-shaped object
cruising silently at altitudes of less than one thousand feet.
It was most often described as a huge "V" shaped flying wing.
During this same period, while groups of unidentified pilots had
been flying light aircraft in V formations, police departments
had been visited by federal agents offering "hang glider" and
"light aircraft" flights as explanations for the lights in the
sky. Several months after the beginning of these sightings, a
popular television series began. The show is called "V" and
portrays invaders from the stars, disguised as humans, who, in
reality are alien reptiles bent on conquering the world. Can all
this be coincidence? If more than 30,000 people have seen this
thing, why haven't the major media groups been more interested?
Why are federal agents covertly investigating and attempting to
censor reports of these overflights? Why now, when unidentified
aircraft can be rapidly detected, intercepted and even shot down,
has this object apparently not been challenged?
On August 21st, 1983, I personally witnessed the object. I
grew up in the Air Force and now work as an aerospace engineer.
What I saw was not an aircraft nor a group of light planes. As a
result, I began an in-depth investigation of the phenomenon the
next day. Prior to August 21st, I had followed reports of the
object and spoken with several investigators who were attempting
to determine its real nature. Then I began investigating the
reports myself. I interviewed witnesses, spoke with local police
officers and conferred with other investigators and with
interested journalists. I found clear evidence of the existence
of an aerial craft, approximately three times as large as the
largest known conventional aircraft, which displayed
characteristics beyond our current level of technology. I also
found indications of a well-planned attempt to coverup the
sightings, and covert investigations by federal agencies using
FBI operatives and other federal agency personnel.
The object got major notice on March 24th, 1983 when
residents of Yorktown, New Castle, Mt. Kisco and other nearby
towns in New York State reported it cruising slowly at low
altitude. From that date to the present (last confirmed sighting
Dec. 26th, 1984) the unknown object has been reported over
Westchester, Putnam, Rockland and Duchess counties in New York
and over Fairfield county in Conneticut. Professional
investigators have interviewed more than 2000 witnesses, more
than seventy media articles have appeared (primarily in local
newspapers), and photographs and video tapes have recorded the
presence of the "V" shaped UFO. Numerous police officers have
seen it. These same officers have reported attempts by their
police chiefs to censor their statements. Investigators of this
phenomenon have been covertly watched and, on occasion, subjected
to spurious interviews by FBI agents. All of this is documented;
here, by the media, in the logs of investigators, on tapes of
witness accounts and in signed statements by police officers.
WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING
Before we can attempt any analysis we must take a long, hard
look at the information available. Three men have been most
active in investigating these reports: Lt. George Lesnick of the
Fairfield, Conneticut police department, Philip Imbrogno of
Greenwich, Conneticut, and myself. Phil and George have been
more active in interviewing witnesses and relaying information
that the Center for UFO Studies in Illinois. The head of CUFOS
and 'dean' of UFO research, J. Allen Hynek, has personally
visited the area several times to interview witnesses with George
and Phil. He acknowledges this to be "one of the largest UFO
waves in history."
We cannot deal directly with the object, examine it and
determine exactly what it is or where it is from. We can examine
witness reports, drawings and photographs of the object. We can
examine the reaction of the media, of local police and of federal
agencies such as the FAA, the ANG (Air National Guard) and the
FBI.
Thousands of witness reports are on record. Drawings,
photographs and reports of aircraft encounters are also
available. (The media coverage is listed at the end of this
article.) While the object has been seen primarily over the
Westchester/Fairfield area there are reports from Pennsylvania to
Maine of a UFO with similar characteristics. There are also
scattered reports of this type of UFO seen during 1980, 1981 and
1982. The focus, however, seems to be on this 1983 and 1984 flap
over New York and Conneticut.
The first widely read media article to comment on this
object was printed in the Port Chester (New York) Daily Item.
Hundreds Claim to Have Seen UFO was the headline and, indeed,
hundreds of reports of a large, "V" shaped UFO with multicolored
lights were received by the police departments of Yorktown, Mt.
Kisco, Carmel and nearby areas. This was on Thursday night,
March 24, 1983. Police officers in these towns also reported
seeing it. (For the record, however, one week earlier, on March
17th, residents of Kent, N.Y. and motorists on highway I-84 had
reported an identical UFO.)
The object was seen the next night, March 25th, and again
the following night. Now the witnesses numbered in the
thousands. Other newspapers began picking up the story. Again
the object appeared on several nights in early April, this time
in the area of Danbury, Conneticut and a story appeared in the
Danbury News-Times. Then the Sunday New York Times on April
17th carried a lengthy article about the activity.
The name Philip Imbrogno was seen often and rightly so; Phil
is one of the most authoritative experts on aerial phenomena in
the area. A Viet-Nam war medical corpsman veteran, he is a high
school science teacher and a graduate astronomer. Phil is a man
of many talents, with an exacting attitude as an investigator and
almost limitless energy. He began pursuing the mystery of this
UFO and, with the aid of Lt. Lesnick, an experienced police
investigator, gathered reams of data. Verbal reports on tape,
written and signed reports, occasional photographs, drawings,
maps of flight routes and computer evaluations of patterns began
accumulating as George and Phil continued their investigations.
Obligingly, the UFO continued to reappear. Then, other aspects
of the situation also began to occur.
It was clear to Phil and George and to most of the witnesses
that what was being seen was not a conventional aircraft nor a
group of them. The object hovered, made little or no noise,
performed unusual and abrupt turns, rotated on its own axis and
displayed extremely rapid accelerations and decelerations. Often
it was reported to blink off its lights, seeming to disappear,
only to reappear seconds later, lights blazing, in a removed
quadrant of the evening sky miles away. Official explanations
began to proliferate. First they said it was hang gliders, then
"ultra light" aircraft. These explanations were shown to be
inaccurate, or at least, inadequate. Such very light aircraft
would be hard pressed to stay aloft even with the weight of
several hand flashlights, not to mention six to twenty bright,
glowing lights. Other explanations came to the fore. Light
aircraft in formation became the byword of authorities and
explainers. It was, at this time, more than two months after the
beginning of the sightings, that attention became focused upon a
group of pilots flying out of Stormville airport in New York.
These pilots flew close formations, most often in V or wedge-
shaped patterns. Thus, the perfect explanation for the sightings
was found and publicized.
Reality, however, was more complex. Lt. Lesnick uncovered
definite evidence of censorship attempts directed towards the
witnesses who were police officers. These officers stated that
the police chiefs of their departments had been visited by
federal agents and that they had then been instructed to explain
the UFOs as conventional aircraft activity. The officers were
indignant about this, for they were convinced that what they saw
was not normal aircraft activity. The Stormville pilots were
very evasive and would not talk to investigators or newspaper
reporters. Several times they avoided state and local police
waiting in their cruisers at the landing strip by diverting
themselves to other airports. More was going on then met the
eye.
Throughout the summer and into the late fall of 1983 the "V"
shaped object continued to be seen. Media articles appeared, but
less often, I found myself drawn to the activity, and spoke
several times with George and Phil. They greatly impressed me.
These men were very professional UFO investigators. Compared to
them, I felt I was a hobbyist.
At the beginning of this wave of activity I began to keep a
log of all information coming my way that might pertain to this
"object." My first guess was that it was some new type of
military aircraft displayed in a strange attempt to gage public
reaction to UFOs. After several talks with witnesses and
aerospace engineers, this idea began to seem untenable. After
August 21st, when the object circled and overflew my residence,
the idea that it had been constructed using our present day
technology was one I abandoned altogether.
On August 21st, 1983, I watched the object at close range
for several minutes. That same night witnesses reported it over
New Haven, West Haven, Bridgeport, Monroe and Stratford,
Conneticut. On September 23rd, 1983, the object was seen over
Newton, Sandy Hook and along Highway I-84 in Conneticut. We
shall examine these two nights in depth as an expanded reference
to the larger range of reported incidents. In this way we may
find some tentative answers or at least some closer descriptions
of its appearances and activities.
It is important that we draw no conclusions unless warranted
by the data available. UFOs are unreal to most of us. We have
not seen them. We see only the reports. For those people who
saw this UFO, it suddenly becomes a reality which is open to
various interpretations. Explanations, especially for those not
directly exposed to the phenomenon, leaped forth. I saw it. I
have a clear grasp of what I saw and how it interacted with me.
I have also closely interviewed many of the witnesses of August
21st and September 23rd. Yet, I have no idea what it actually
was -- I can only report on how it appeared and what it did.
What it actually was or is will remain, for the most part,
unknown until it lands or openly displays itself in daylight.
Witnesses agree, no matter what may have been aloft, the
object they saw was not a formation of light planes. Many
witnesses have seen both the object and a group of light aircraft
in formation over their areas (not at the same time). These
witnesses, some being pilots themselves, agree that there was no
confusing the two. Again, the object was huge, displayed
multicolored lights (which changed color and intensity), flew
below 1000 feet, hovered, moved at very low speeds, turned on its
own axis, accelerated very rapidly, cast unusual light beams to
the ground and interacted with witnesses as if it was aware of
the witness participation in its appearance. No formation of
light planes, or other conventional aircraft, can do all these
things.
A CLOSER LOOK
Let us look at the nights of August 21st and September 23rd,
1983, in more detail.
AUGUST 21st, 1983:
At approximately 10:30 p.m. on the evening of August 21st,
1983, an unusual flying object with multicolored lights was
reported to Louis Coveyduck at Tweed-New Haven Airport,
Conneticut. The first calls came in from the Foxon/East Haven
area, followed by calls from New Haven and then West Haven. Six
witnesses reported more than unusual lights; their reports were
of a huge lighted object seen at close range. Two men, Shawn
Fricker and John Trendine, both from West Haven, reported seeing
the object hovering low over the Yale Bowl stadium, just outside
of New Haven. Security guards Jose Velasquez and Kenneth Rayon
saw it directly over the Jackson Newspaper building. Police also
received calls from numerous individuals such as Robert McBride,
his wife and neighbors on Washington Avenue in New Haven. They
consistently reported an extremely large, low-flying object
seemingly studded with multicolored lights.
At 10:40 p.m., three women reported a low flying "V" shaped
object near Seaside Park in Bridgeport. These witnesses became
somewhat agitated as the large display of lights seemed to follow
them from the shore and through Bridgeport towards the North End
of town. At 10:45 p.m., I, myself, saw a set of unusual lights
low over the North End near St. Vincent's Hospital. As I
watched, they seemed to be drifting slowly and then blinked out.
Not really believing what I saw, and attempting to rationally
explain it to myself mentally, I moved to a window facing west,
over Main Street. As I looked out, the lights reappeared. They
were stationary now, and much closer. There were three widely-
spaced lights, approximately four city blocks away, about two or
three hundred feet over the rooftops. I was on the third floor
of a house on French Street.
As I watched, I became convinced that the lights were
unusual and that what I was seeing was a UFO. The lights,
colored red, green and blue, began changing color. The green
blinked out, then back on, then they all went out. At this point
I moved to the north facing window. Upon looking out and up, I
witnessed a huge display of wing shaped colored lights, moving
silently and slowly eastward between me and the hospital. The
hospital sits on a hill approximately half a mile away and a
quarter of a mile up from my residence. Being a quality control
engineer by profession, I computed the dimensions of the
structure containing the lights to be at least 500 feet across
and 300 feet long. I immediately called Lt. Lesnick and then
went outdoors in an attempt to see the object again.
Security guard Lopes of Sikorsky Field in Stratford reported
that a very excited motorist had driven into the airport at
approximately 10:55 p.m. to report having seen "a huge UFO" over
Route 25 moments before. The motorist would have been seeing the
object at the same time and in the same area as myself.
At 11:06 p.m., the Monroe Police Department received a call
from an electrical engineer living near a new golf course in the
town. The engineer reported observing a set of unusual colored
lights hovering over and behind his house. At 11:10 p.m., the
Monroe police received another call from a man living less than
three hundred yards from the engineer. Lee Lent, his wife and
his eldest son all saw a very large, "V" shaped group of lights
hovering at less than two hundred feet in front of their house.
The lights, "blue, green and almost a pink color," hovered and
then began moving directly towards the open fields of the golf
course. Mr. Lent works as a financial director of a successful
company and has often traveled by air, many times in light
aircraft. "This was no plane," he stated emphatically. He and
his family had watched it hovering silently for approximately
five minutes before it began moving silently over his house.
Shortly after this, another Monroe resident and her teenaged
daughter saw the object moving slowly over their house back
towards Bridgeport.
At 11:45 p.m., I returned to my house and called the
Bridgeport Police Department to report the UFO. At 11:50 p.m., a
young woman in the vicinity of the General Electric plant near
Boston and Seaview Avenues called the Bridgeport police to say
that she and several friends were watching a huge lighted object
either moving or hovering in the sky. Immediately afterwards, at
11:55 p.m., Stratford police received a call from Cliff
Robertson, 58, who stated that he, his wife and several others
were watching a "huge cluster of lights" in the air over Conners
Lane near Huntington Road, in Stratford.
Tracing the reports, we see that a huge, well-lighted,
seemingly "V" shaped object was seen first over East Haven, then
New Haven, then West Haven, then Bridgeport, then Monroe, back
over Bridgeport and onto Stratford. The sightings occurred
sequentially from approximately 10:30 p.m. to 11:50 p.m. The
flight path was a consistent line over the closely clustered
towns. There can be no doubt something was there.
Phil Imbrogno has gathered many examples of this type of
incident in 1983 and 1984 over Duchess, Putnam and Westchester
counties of New York. At times of peak frequency, reports of
this type of overflight occurred more than twice a week. George
Lesnick has made inquiries at local police departments in these
counties. He has spoken to police officers who saw the object.
As mentioned, the New York State Police and local police chiefs
at first attempted to officially explain the sightings as "ultra-
light" aircraft. More recently the official explanations have
stated that the sightings were due to a formation of light planes
coming out of Stormville Airport in New York. An FAA inquiry was
initiated and it came to light that a group of pilots, flying
light aircraft, had often flown over the same areas in close
formation. The light planes appeared flying at both high and low
altitudes several times, and many people, including police
officers, had seen both the planes and the "UFO" separately and
reported that, again, there was no confusing the two. As early
as April 23, 1983, both Phil Imbrogno and myself received reports
of "very low flying Cessnas" from a police officer and from an
amateur astronomer in the New Fairfield, Conneticut area. This
formation of planes was readily identified as such by both
witnesses and was not referred to as being a UFO.
Surprisingly, some local police officers (who witnessed the
UFO themselves) claim, somewhat angrily, that their superiors had
instructed them to say it was an airplane or an ultra-light
plane. Some officers reported that their chiefs had been
approached by federal authorities who were attempting to "keep a
lid" on the unusual activity. Investigations into the identities
and motivations of the "formation flying" pilots have been
clouded, perhaps deliberately, but one salient fact has emerged:
these flights were never noticed until after the UFO reports of
March and April, 1983. Since the characteristics of those UFO
reports could not be duplicated by any regular aircraft
formations, either the pilots are hoaxers trying to imitate the
reported UFO or they are part of a well-conceived plan to present
a "rational" explanation for the unusual activity.
Such an explanation could help to keep the public calm in
the face of the unknown. And, it could give defense analysts
some breathing room. It is reported that UFOs have caused
profound alarm at higher levels of military intelligence centers.
They have interfered with the operation of long-range ballistic
missile implacements. They have landed near military bases.
Numerous unsuccessful interceptions have been attempted. These
facts are very well documented in two books: Casebook of a UFO
Investigator by Raymond Fowler and Clear Intent by Larry Fawcett
and Barry Greenwood, both published by Prentice-Hall Inc.
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 07632). A study of these two books
should give anyone the foundation of an understanding of the UFO
phenomenon.
SEPTEMBER 23rd, 1983:
At about 11:00 p.m. on the night of September 23rd, 1983,
three girls and the mother of one left a dance at the Sandy Hook,
Conneticut high school. As they proceeded through Sandy Hook and
onto the Highway I-84 overpass, one of the girls saw a "UFO"
almost directly over Sandy Hook. Excitedly, she told the others,
while watching it from the rear window of the car. They began
making fun of her until they, too, saw the object. The mother,
driving the car, turned left onto Walnut Tree Hill Road.
Suddenly they all began seeing the object off to their right,
between the trees along the road. The mother stopped the car,
but refused to allow the girls to get out. All four watched as
the object silently flew almost directly overhead and back
towards I-84. All agreed that it appeared to be very large,
kite-like, with four steady, glowing lights (two red, two blue).
The "leading point" of the object in flight was a red light, the
two "tips" were blue and the "tail" was red. They were steady
and did not blink. The lights were described as "too close
together to be several planes in formation, but too far apart to
be one single plane." As the object moved over to the left side
of the car, the trailing red light went out. The witnesses
estimate that the object was now over Highway I-84. It appeared
to be a large triangle, with a red light at the apex and two blue
lights at the "wingtips." The blue lights then went out,
followed by the disappearance of the leading red light.
At approximately this same time, a woman graduate student of
the University of Conneticut, 33 years old, saw the object as she
was driving on I-84. She reported three unusual lights (a red
and two blues) to the Newton Police Department. She hurriedly
exited the highway near the Grand Union store and as she did, she
noticed the two blue lights go out and then the red light also
went out. She felt as if "the thing" had disappeared. She
noticed other people on the road slowing down, as if also
watching it, and talked with another woman at the supermarket who
had seen "it," too. The police dispatcher from nearby Newton
told her that there had been two other sightings of a large
unknown object in the past two weeks, but advised her to relax
because whatever it was, the FAA was tracking it.
Barbara Allen, a resident of Sandy Hook, her daughter and
her son also saw the object at approximately the same time, while
traveling eastbound on I-84 in the same area. The daughter,
bright for her eleven years, wrote a most cogent report:
"I was thinking about falling asleep. Then I saw a bright
light above a hill and I thought it was a radar tower. As we
drove along, it was going along the same way we were and it was
very big or at least bigger than a large plane. We got off at
Exit 10 and stopped to look at it. It was a triangular shape and
had one red light and two blue lights. As we were watching it,
the lights seemed to fade away. I know they (it) didn't go
behind a cloud because it was a totally clear night."
All agreed that what they saw was unusual and that it was
unlike anything they had seen before. After stopping at the
bottom of Exit 10, they watched as it hovered over them briefly
and then moved slowly away. Barbara talked with a teenager
standing on the opposite side of the road, who had also seen
"it."
The last report from the Sandy Hook area that night came
from a self employed construction worker who, at age 28, runs his
own concrete business. Paul Valliquette of Meriden, Conneticut
was on his way home from a job when he saw it. Without fear, but
with a lot of curiosity, Paul stopped his truck on I-84, got out
and proceeded to get a very good look at the object at close
range, with its lights on and after they went off. He gave a
very concise report of an extremely large, metallic object.
Using hand widths and angular measurements (he saw it hovering in
front of a nearby hill), the dimensions of the object were
computed by him to be approximately 800 feet across, 500 feet
long, and approximately 50 to 100 feet in thickness. This seems
ludicrously large, but almost every witness reported similar
dimensions. "As large as a football field" was a common
comparison. Paul watched the huge object for about five minutes.
"It" had doused its lights, but in the moonlight he could see a
"huge, grey metallic object." Suddenly its lights came back on
and it "moved very swiftly" to the west at the same low altitude.
Paul stated, "On a soft arc, it lifted up towards the stars and
became the size of a pin head in a matter of five to ten
seconds." The acceleration was short-lived, extremely rapid, and
silent. It stopped abruptly, seemingly miles away, at about
sixty degrees above the horizon over the area of Ridgefield, CT.
At this point, Paul perceived it to be much like a star, giving
off multicolored lights.
The reports from each of the two nights are not isolated to
the witnesses mentioned. Media articles appeared in the
Bridgeport Post of August 22, 1983; in the Meridian Record
Journal of August 24 and in the New Haven Journal Courier of
August 23. Again in September, reports appeared in the New Haven
Register on the 24th and in the Newton Bee on the 30th. Police
departments received numerous calls about the object in all the
towns mentioned. It is estimated that there were several hundred
witnesses in August and somewhat less in September.
These two nights are typical of many. Phil Imbrogno, the
most persistent and perhaps most experienced investigator, has
looked thoroughly into numerous sets of similar reports over
Westchester, Putnam and Duchess counties of New York. The record
of his investigations, along with photographs, taped testimony
and police officer observations checked by Lt. Lesnick, leaves
little room for "conventional explanations."
My own investigations into the object's appearances included
interviews of more than fifty witnesses, taped and written
testimony, drawings and other records of reports. I met several
times with Phil Imbrogno and George Lesnick and consulted with
other investigators and journalists in gathering and comparing
information. I also consulted with several experienced aerospace
and astronautical engineers. They agreed, after reviewing the
reports, that those describing a large, low-flying, structured
object could not be explained by aircraft activity. One
suggestion was that the object might be a very large, parawing
surveillance craft, powered by newly developed brushless DC
electric motors. Although an attractive concept, this proposal
has several serious drawbacks. Such craft are still in the
experimental stage and are being developed solely for the
military. What would they be doing cruising low over the
affluent suburbs of Westchester and Fairfield? Such surveillance
drones are designed to be unobtrusive and cannot duplicate many
of the reported maneuvers of the "Westchester Wing."
Surveillance aircraft used at low altitudes are much smaller in
size than the reported UFO. The general consensus is that a
structured object of the reported size and characteristics of the
"Westchester Wing" was beyond our present technological
capabilities.
Other aspects of the situation surfaced. On three separate
occasions I encountered direct evidence of covert FBI interest in
investigations into the sightings. One evening I found myself
being interviewed by a person representing herself to be a MUFON
investigator (MUFON is a UFO group based in Texas with branches
throughout the U.S.). While we spoke, an FBI agent was sitting
at the next table, listening intently. This was verified by
local police officers who had an ongoing interest in the
investigation and in the presence of the agent, but especially
since he had not officially notified them of his presence and
intent. Other agents were identified through license plate
checks. The shadow cast by the presence of federal agencies
interested in the UFO phenomenon has a definite outline, although
the complete image is still unknown.
SUMMARY
It can be stated that many thousands of individuals in the
New York/Conneticut area were witness to an unusual aerial object
in 1983 and 1984. The object was consistently described as
extremely large, structured, "V" shaped, silent and flying slowly
at low altitudes. It also was seen to accelerate "very, very
quickly," to rotate on its axis in flight, make abrupt right-
angle turns, hover motionlessly and display variable lighting as
well as "searchlight-like" beams extending to the ground. Within
one month of the first of these reports, certain pilots began
flying light aircraft out of Stormville and other small airports
in formations over the same areas. They refused to identify
themselves to civilian investigators and several times avoided
state and local police waiting for them by diverting to land at
other airports. Investigations into their identities, led by
lawyer Peter Gersten, have linked them, it is said, with the CIA.
Several researchers experienced covert attempts of being followed
and falsely interviewed. Investigations into this activity
showed these attempts to be the actions of FBI employees.
Numerous police officers, themselves witnesses of the unknown
object, reported attempted censorship by superiors. They also
reported, in several separate townships, approaches to police
chiefs by federal agents allegedly attempting to cover up and
explain away reports.
What were we experiencing? At this point we can only say
that we were witnessing what appears to be a very large,
structured vehicle which flew low over populated areas, displayed
unusual lights perhaps to deliberately attract attention to it.
What it was, where it was from and who was or is behind its
activities is all still entirely unknown. Someone or something
seemed to be trying to get our attention. Once attending, we
found ourselves even further entranced with the implications of
its appearance. We need to clearly separate what we know from
what we may imagine. UFOs have somehow managed to consistently
attract a low level of public attention for years. For some
reason, this particular wave of activity seemed to be more open
and intense.
Too many witnesses had seen the object for it to be
explained away as an "ultra-light aircraft." Too many witnesses,
among them pilots and aeronautical engineers, had seen the
unknown object display characteristics completely beyond the
capabilities of "light aircraft formations." Whether one chooses
to believe the explanations or to believe in UFOs is no longer a
cogent approach. One does not "believe in" helicopters. One can
only accept the evidence, all of the evidence, in showing UFO
activity occurred on a surprisingly consistent and prolonged
basis in 1983 and 1984 over the New York/Conneticut area.
We cannot define completely the nature of this activity at
this time. We can, however, closely examine the evidence
gathered. And, thanks to the efforts of Philip Imbrogno, George
Lesnick and others, that evidence is considerable. Using what we
know are verified reports, we can make some reasonable statements
and deductions about it. It seems clear that an unknown agency
was displaying what we call a UFO to thousands of individuals in
the densely populated New York/Conneticut area. The displays
were consistent and presumably were attention seeking,
particularly by the object turning its lights on and off. If it
did not want to be seen, we may presume, it would not have
illuminated itself at all. The object was seen only at night and
seemed to have no clearly detectable purpose for flying low over
populated areas except, perhaps, to demonstrate unusually high
performance flight characteristics. The object was huge: one
witness, Mr. Valiquette, compared it to the size of three jumbo
jet 747 aircraft lined up in a row.
The extreme size of the object and its unusual and
unbelievable flight characteristics invite us to be in awe of its
presence. At the same time, it did not display itself in
daylight or, as far as we know, it never made contact with the
ground; its presence did not create hysteria, rather it seems we
were gently introduced, over a period of many months, to the
reality of its existence.
The UFO phenomenon has been following this modus operendi
for many years. In New England the manifestations of this
particular UFO showed a greater frequency, a greater consistency
and a greater duration than previous UFO waves. We might deduce
that the UFO phenomenon is accelerating its program. We might
consider that our reaction to the phenomenon could be just as
important as our realization of its actual nature.
SPECULATION
There are reports that: Minuteman missile systems have had
their command and control computer systems crashed by the
appearances of UFOs; UFOs have effortlessly destroyed
antiaircraft missiles launched at them over Korea, over Belgium,
over Moscow; jet fighters launched at them over the United States
and the Soviet Union have been lost in interception attempts;
electromagnetic communications and radar have been totally jammed
at military bases for hours during UFO appearances; and UFOs have
closely overflown and landed near military bases throughout the
world. At the same time UFOs have made appearances to isolated
individuals and have overflown towns and cities without
displaying hostility.
Perhaps we are being slowly and gently introduced to a
superior culture which will not allow nuclear conflict on our
planet. Our adolescence may be over. It may be that we shall
resolve our international differences and go on to an eventual
open and peaceful contact. It may also happen that we may be
involved in a nuclear conflict. Such an event presumably could
be stopped by the UFO "agency," since it has shown the capability
for intervention. An intervention on this scale would be a
tremendous shock to humanity. The Westchester overflights, the
Exeter, NH sightings of the last decade, and the reports of UFO
appearances in the past several decades may be designed to
cushion that shock. Perhaps time will tell.
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endous shock to humanity. The Westchester overflights, the Exeter, NH sightings of the last decade, and the reports of UFO appearances in the past several decades may be designed to cushion that shock. Perhaps time will tell.
