Are there any military bases in your area?
Quite a few. I also live next to the only commercial airport in the county. When the local air traffic controller was interviewed regarding the strange lights he was sitting in the airport tower less than two miles away from me right now. Actually, I was not necessarily looking for proof that the incidents happened rather the account of someone who actually witnessed it.
Here's the thing. I have always been fascinated by this stuff and have seen a few really strange things, all of which I have been able to explain. I do look constantly but not through rose colored glasses.
So flipping through the channels the other night I heard the '
Hudson Valley wave' mentioned with great drama. I have heard it mentioned as absolute fact by various podcast guests/hosts. Drives me nuts. I saw 'the object' during one of the two summers this was happening and admit it looked startling to say the least but after the adrenaline surge calmed down I heard the faint drone of a gasoline engine. I've fixed enough of them I ought to know what they sound like. Those of us who lived right here at ground zero never thought it was a big spacecraft (or whatever) we all knew it was a bunch of nitwits flying small planes or ultralights. Stormville airport? Yes. Sky Acres too, but who mentions that?
I also believe that there were some very large military transports conducting some sort of night time maneuvers and became the cause of a number of UFO reports at roughly the same time. Stewart-Newburgh ANG is only a couple of minutes away by air and I was told by one of the guardsmen there that it houses something like 10% of the Army's heavy lift capacity. Takes a while to get used to seeing them and at night sometimes they look like flying oil refineries straight out of
Project UFO. Not hard to understand how a visitor might get a little surprised and also not hard to see how it adds to the 'mystery' of the area.
I spent some time digging through the local newspaper archives and hate to say it, they tend to corroborate what I am saying. It seems that if you drew concentric circles every 20 miles or so away from this area the credulity multiplies and the descriptions get more fanciful. Years later this has become a sort of a Roswell - an iconic event that doesn't hold up all that well under scrutiny. Separate lights - which you could tell weren't connected - became a solid
craft. The drone of small gasoline engines became a powerful
hum and so forth.
So this one is home base to me. I have yet to encounter someone who actually witnessed it who failed to see what I saw yet I hear others repeat the stories with great sincerity. Was really hoping someone could pipe up with a credible account. Guess I'm just doing my part to say the king is naked.