Hudson Valley UFO sightings

[pigfarmer]

Plodding through 1984 and have to stop for now. I thought this was interesting - state troopers confronting the pilots at Stormville Airport after receiving several boomerang or v-shaped UFO reports.


Also, in 1984 a local lawyer Peter Gersten keeps popping up like a bad penny. He organized a conference in Brewster in 84 and seems to be the go-to reference every time there's a report. I found one case where a resident reported a daylight sighting of a green pyramid at ground level and another of daylight discs and yet somehow Gerten was called for comment and wound up talking about boomerangs and so forth. Unrelated. He offered a $1000 reward to useful info pertaining to those types of cases and after he did the reports slacked off.

This is all context, it's what was going on here at the time and the papers are accurately reporting the local zeitgeist.

 

[pigfarmer]

I believe I found the original report that started all this. Seems Monique O'Driscoll was with her daughter at White Lake not too far from here on February 26 1983 and saw a boomerang shaped craft low to the ground. I have no idea what she saw and she didn't either.

Right after this was when we started seeing low flying military aircraft and of course, the damned small planes. Lots of stories about the small planes and lots of witnesses. Typically, some saw alien spacecraft while others heard engines.

Had it not been for those idiots with the small planes this case would be as forgotten as the other two UFO reports I found that do not fit this mold.

 

[pigfarmer]

Another report from about the same area. High school kid and photography club member got the only picture I've seen

Gee, since nothing else that flies could possibly have red, green and white lights on them appearing is a boomerang or triangle shape then I guess we are just stuck with this unsolvable mystery ......

Snarkiness aside there are a very few truly High Strange reports so far in this period but it's also absolutely fair to say that at the time several factors were playing into all this. Phil Imbrogno being one that like Peter Gersten, seems to have all over this like a stink.

 

[Todd Feinman]

Nice finds, Pigfarmer! What happened to Monique certainly sounds like something that would happen with UFOs. What do you think of her sighting? Planes or something else?