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SUBJECT: Goverment Coverup of a Classic UFO Case? FILE: UFO2045
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By Philip J. Imbrogno
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What ever UFOs are they do exist and the phenomenon is world wide! Over
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the past thirty-five years most un-biased UFO research that has been made
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available to the general public has been by civilan organizations and
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individual investigators. A question often asked by members of the media to
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UFO researchers is"After all these years what have you found out?" The
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answer to this question is we found out plenty. We have proven by the great
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number of case studies,video tapes, and Goverment documents that UFOs are
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real! A recent Gallop pole showed that most Americans believe that UFOs
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exist. It has also been shown, due to the great efforts of Citizens Against
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UFO Secrecy(CAUS) that when it comes to UFOS, our Goverment knows more than
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it's telling.This is apparent in the multitude of documents that CAUS was
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able to obtain under the Freedom Of Information Act. Still, quite a few
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documents were witheld because of reasons of National Security.
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During September of 1987,just before the publication of my book NIGHT
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SIEGE THE HUDSON VALLEY UFO SIGHTINGS,I received a certified letter from
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the Federal Aviation Administration(FAA). The letter stated that I would be
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contacted very shorty by an officer of the Airforce in regards to my
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investigations into the UFO phenomenon in the Hudson Valley.The letter went
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on to say that I would be contacted by a Lt. Col. Bennet whose official
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title was the officer in charge to the Airforce's represenative branch to
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the Federal Avaiation Administration.
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About one week later I received a call from a Major Andrews of the
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Airforce from Burlington Mass. He told me that the Airforce was well aware
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of the sightings in the Hudson Valley and that they have been collecting
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reports over the past ten years. He said that there was no official
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investigation into the sightings,but still they do check out reports of
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unkown aircraft reported by the FAA. I talked with Major Andrews for over
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forty minutes and the main concern of the Airforce seemed to be that the
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publication of NIGHT SIEGE might cause a UFO panic in the Hudson Valley and
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nearby area.Major Andrews informed me that there were secret military
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flights over the area,the purpose of these missions he did not know.He then
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agreed to send me information that he had in his files about UFO reports in
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the area. He then asked if I would keep him updated on the locations of new
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sightings.His interest, he said was just personal. This seemed a little
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strange to me,since when does the Airforce call a UFO investigator
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regarding a UFO case.I believe that I was one of the first civilians in a
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very long time that was contacted by the Airforce via telephone in the past
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twenty years. This must mean that what ever the Hudson Valley UFO was,the
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Airforce was very interested in it.
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About five days later I received the packet of UFO material from Major
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Andrews. In it were some documents from local bases and the FAA regarding
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UFO sightings. There were also quite a few letters sent to the FAA and the
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Airforce from residents in the New York, Connecticut and Massachussetts
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area who have had UFO sightings. The oldest of these reports dated back to
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1972. What was puzzling was the fact that some of the letters were
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addressed to local newspapers,several of the national tabloids and a well
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known author on the UFO phenomena,but how did they get into the hands of
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the Airforce? I contacted this well known author who informed me that he
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never got the letter.
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There was one curious memo dated August of 1983 from the FAA at Kennedy
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Airport asking where they should send a UFO report. The bottom of the memo
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indicated that the report was sent to the Department of the Airforce in
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Washington D.C.I called them and was told that reports of "UNKOWNS" are
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channeled to other"concerned agencies" and that procedure is protected
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under National Security. Then the woman who I was talking to after taking
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my name and address politely hung up on me.
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Was there a connection between our Goverment and the UFO sightings in the
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New York area? If so what was the connection? Was there an experimental
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craft belonging to the Airforce being tested in the area,or was the UFO
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that has been now spotted over most of New England the product of an alien
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intelligence? I was not sure,but it was quite clear there was some type of
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Goverment involvement. This was to be more evident as the months went on.
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There have been literly thousands of UFO sightings in the Northeast since
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1982.The center of concentration of the sightings seems to be around the
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Hudson Valley of New York. Here my research team and I centered our
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investigation.We have been researching these sightings since 1982 and by
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1987 we had hundreds of reports entered on our computer's floppy disks.We
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found out that the majority of reports took place on a Tuesday, Thursday
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and Saturday night from 8-11 PM. The center of activity within the high
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concentration of reports in the Hudson Valley was around the Kent New York
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area. Interesting enough,highway I-84 was right in the middle of this area.
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This information was made avaialble by use of the computer, without it,this
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would have taken months to fiqure out.
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For the past several years the UFO sightings seemed to have taken
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somewhat of a pattern. On certain days of the month it would appear in an
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area at a certain time,then disappear in another location. We thought we
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did indeed spot some type of pattern and with the help of our computer
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predicted the next sighting date to be on October 29 1987 at about 8:20 Pm
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around the Kent-Brewster New York area. This information was obtained on
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October 15th,plently of time to prepare and check our data.
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We prepared four cars,all equiped with CB radios and decided to use
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highway I-84 as the center of our operations. We also had one car with a
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police scanner so that we can listen in to police in the area.In the past
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local and State police were the first to get reports of the UFO.
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We then started driving on Highway I-84 West bound at about 8:10 pm. Each
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car was spaced about two miles apart. I was in the second car and at 8:20
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PM I lost communication with our lead car. As I approached a rest stop just
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before the Taconic Parkway turn off I saw our lead car pulled over to the
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side of the road. The driver was Chris Clark and he was already out of the
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car looking at a group of lights in the northern section of the sky. I
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stopped the car and got on my radio to inform the others "That we had
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something strange here" I then instructed the other cars to pull off to the
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side of the road since the lights seemed as if they were going to head
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east,in their direction.
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I then got out of the car and saw a formation of about eight yellowish
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white lights,very bright heading straight for our location. Chris said that
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he had been observing them for five minutes and they did a kind of "dance"
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in the sky before they took on the present shape.The lights appeared now
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like a straight line,Much brighter than the landing lights of a plane. They
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were about forty degrees above the horizon and moving very slow in our
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direction.
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As we watched the lights we heard no sound at all.It was then I realized
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that this was the Hudson Valley UFO, the one I had been tracking for the
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past five years. The lights continued to approach,then they moved
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sideways,then began heading east. At no time did I see a physical structure
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connecting the lights,but they moved so smoothly and in such perfect order
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that I could not imagine them being separate objects. At this point I could
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see the back of it and it appeared to be in a boomerang shape.,I then saw
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about eighteen other lights of various colors, The purest reds, Greens and
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ambers that I ever saw. The back seemed to be made up of red lights
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only,while the middle had red lights,green and amber and blue. The front
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was composed of these very bright yellowish-white lights.
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I then called on the radio to Fred Dennis who was about two miles east of
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my position on I-84. There was also another car between Fred and myself. I
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Said"Fred, Its heading in your direction" At that time I lost the object
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over a hill. Fred then got out of the car with his binoculars looking all
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around for something. He said to himself" What are they seeing,there's
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nothing here" He radioed back to inform us that he saw nothing in the sky.
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Then his voice went silent. About forty seconds later Fred got back on the
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radio and yelled," I SEE IT, IT's HUGE". It seems as Fred was scanning the
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skies the UFO came out from behind a hill that was blocking the North west.
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Fred then observed it with his binoculars. The object was so huge,he said
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that it spilled out of the field of view. This would make it an enormous
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object since the field of view with those binoculars is 500 feet at a
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thousand yards.
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The object was observed by every member of our team. One of our
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researchers also had it in binoculars as it passed right over his car. He
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reported a series of multicolored lights attached to some type of dark grey
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structure. The object was so colorful against the clear night sky that it
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looked like a Christmas Tree.
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The UFO continued to head toward the east,to Danbury Connecticut. We were
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still all heading West,so we had to get off the exit and get back on the
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other side of I-84 and head east. We did this and started heading east. The
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time was now 8:55 pm. We drove for about five minutes and then saw the
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object again,this time it was going west! We stopped our cars and watched
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it drift slowly ,just above the hills at an estimated distance of three
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miles from the highway. We watched it for about five more minutes. We saw a
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multitude of red lights which made up the back of the object. As we watched
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it all the lights went out and the UFO simply vanished before our eyes.
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We were all quite excited by what we saw. At the time of the sighting
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there were also other cars pulling over to the shoulder of the highway also
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observing the object. We could also hear the Truck drivers talking about it
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over the CB radio.We learned later that the object was seen in the Danbury
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Connecticut area nd hovered above a main road for several minutes. Most of
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the people who saw it in Danbury indicate it was at least the size of a 747
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and was no more than 1,000 feet in the air. One couple in Danbury
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Connecticut reported that as it hovered above their car,the UFO began to
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descend, this really upset them. As they watched it,the UFO then slowly
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gained altitude then it moved away to the west.A for our team we did have a
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video camera and still cameras,but were disappointed the way the pictures
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came out.
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It is not common for UFO investigators to see the UFO that they are
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researching. With all the sightings in the Hudson Valley and the entire
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northeast it was only a matter of time before we got a real good look at
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the UFO,and we did! We had thought we had found a real pattern to the
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appearance of the Hudson Valley UFO,but when we tried to predict later
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sightings we saw nothing. Therefore we must assume that our sighting was a
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coincidence and if there was a real pattern to the UFO we had not yet found
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it.
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In the days to follow we received dozens of letters and many phone calls
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from people in the area who also saw it that same night.We got one report
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that was to provide a lead to a possible coverup of the UFO sightings. This
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report indicated that after the UFO disappeared about twenty minutes later
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a formation of planes was seen tracing the exact same route that the UFO
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took.
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Coverup
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Make no mistake about it,there is a real unkown object in New York's
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Hudson Valley. Since the publication of NIGHT SIEGE there has been a
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regular appearance of a formation of planes over New York and Connecticut.
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Members of our research team have spotted them on numerous occasions. These
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planes were also observed in binoculars by several independent witnesses.
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We had these people draw the outline of the shapes of the planes that they
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saw. The drawings were all very similar,so we sent them to two pilots that
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we know. One is a ex-military pilot,the other a ex-commercial pilot who
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used to fly missions for the CIA.All of our aircraft experts and our two
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pilots agree that the desgin was that of an O-2 type aircraft. The O-2 is a
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medium duty aircraft with a single engine. It is made by Cessna Aircraft.
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It is capable of long range and is used by the CIA for surveillance
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missions. It has a very quiet "souped up" engine and the newer models have
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on board flight computers in them for greater stability in the air.We have
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reports that as many as eight planes were seen flying together in a tight
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formation with the winds gusting up to twenty-five miles an hour!
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They seem to be trying to fake a UFO and many people feel that it is an
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attempt to discredit the sightings and to try to convince everyone that all
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they saw was a bunch of planes. These planes have been seen only on a
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Thursday night,the official night the Airforce flies night manuvers. They
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have been seen all over Southern New York and most of Connecticut.
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They fly for about two hours and then they land,but where? They have been
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seen circling Stormville Airport in Stormville, New York giving the
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impression that they are going to land there. They then break formation and
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head West(One plane has been reported landing at Stormville then taking off
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again). On more than one occasion they have been tracked to Stewart
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International airport(an old airforce SAC base) in Newburgh New York.
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Stewart is located West of the Hudson River not far from I-84. The base is
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official operated by the Air National Guard and the Marine Corps. The
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planes then land,one at a time over a period of one hour,but not on the
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main part of the base. They seem to lad on a isolated section of Stewart
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which is a very large airport.
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Our resaerch team visted Steward airport and found an isolated fenced off
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large airfield away from the main landing area marked "RESTRICTED" The
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Restricted area had a well kept flight line and grounds. On the grounds
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were several buildings which looked like hangers large enough to harbor
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several planes of medium size. For the several hours that we were there we
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saw no activity at all.
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We filed a Freedom Of Information Act request(FOIA) with the CIA to find
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out if the CIA was in fact using this area for some type of operation using
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small aircraft.We received an answer several weeks later from the CIA. In a
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lenthly double talking letter the CIA denied our request for information
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about their activities at Stewart. The reason they gave was National
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Security. This denial in our eyes is an admission that the planes do in
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fact belong to the CIA. It is also apparent that the pilots who fly these
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planes are expert military type pilots with years of experience in
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formation flying.
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What was going on in this restricted area? I was contacted by a member of
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the local Newburgh New York media. This person told me that about six
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months before our visit to Stewart he found the restricted area on the
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base,became curious and started to walk toward the inside perimeter. Out of
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no where a jeep came screaming to a halt and three military
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police(Airforce) got out of the jeep and took him by force to a building
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just inside the gate. He was placed in a room that was dimly lite with just
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a table and chair. After about fifteen minutes two men entered the room
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dresssed in dark suits and began to question him. They had a computer print
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out in their hands and it had his name on it. He told me that they knew
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everything about him.
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After about one hour of questions,they then called his supervisor at his
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Job to pick him up. They then placed him in a jeep and took him to the
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public area of Stewart Airfield. This member of the media is a newsperson
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in the Newburgh area and does not want his name used at all in regards to
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the experience he had at the restricted area at Stewart. He is still
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fearful that who ever they were that questioned him might be keeping an eye
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on him. He told me that he felt they were with the CIA and they meant
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business.
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During our investigation concerning this restricted area at Stewart we
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found out that the base now harbors several C-5A's the largest transport
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jet that our Airforce has. We also found out from personnel at the base
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that these C-5A's landed on the restricted airfield several years ago and
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cargo was unloaded. We also found out through a document search that the
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Ait National Guard is no longer officialy running the un-restricted area of
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the base. It is now under the command of the Navy and the Marines are
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running it and have been since 1973! This was strange since when we visted
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Stewart we saw Airforce personnel there and even had a talk with a Master
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Sergent.
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We also found out that the Department of Agriculture was also using a
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section of the restricted area. After a great deal of getting the run
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around we found out that they are using the area for a holding place for
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animals. We found out that a great deal of cattle and other animals were
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flown in to this area. We are still waiting for documents from the USDA
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explaining where the animals are coming from,why cattle and where are they
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going from there. Of course when we found out that cattle were being flown
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into this area the thought of cattle mutilations crossed our minds. What
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was the strange conection with the mutilations and the UFOS. What was the
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connection between the restricted area at Stewart, the CIA, the mystery
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planes and the USDA and the cattle.
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North Putnam County and parts of Westchester county are the site of many
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old abandoned iron ore mines. Most of the mines have been closed down with
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the openings sealed.Many of these openings are located in miles of thick
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woods overgrown with brush, almost impossible to find. I received a phone
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call from a well known UFO investigator who suggested that these old mines
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might be the location of an alien base and that the CIA as well as other
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agencies were operating out of Stewart to keep "an eye" on their
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operations. I don't know about this theory,but can only relate the facts.
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There are and have been thousands of UFO reports in the Hudson Valley and
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Connecticut since 1982. Aircraft have been seen on a regular basis since
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the publication of NIGHT SIEGE. These Air craft are without a doubt trying
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to discredit the sightings. These aircraft have been tracked to Stewart
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Airfield where they land in a restricted area. These aircraft are of the
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O-2 type used by the CIA. The CIA will not provide any information about
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their activities at Stewart because of reasons of National Security.
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In September of 1988 I did a number of TV shows ,newspaper and radio
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interviews I talked about the possibility that the CIA was trying to
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coverup the UFO sightings by flying special aircraft with non-regulation
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lighting. In the days to follow the mystery aircraft were no longer
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reported in the skies over the Hudson Valley and have not been seen since.
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Our investigation still continues.
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