Dean
Adept Dabbler
Okay, I went through the thread to which you referred me, and thank you. Your observations are of interest to me, and a useful addendum to the book. I do not doubt that various planes made formation flights in the region for whatever purposes, some aspects of which Imbrogno discussed at length in the book.
When UFO reports in a region reach public news media, a lot of noise is generated -- many people who don't ordinarily look at the sky start looking, and they are amazed to see various bright objects, some of which move about -- prosaic things (planets, stars, airplanes) that they could have seen before, but they were not looking. Then too, once a flap is underway, it is not uncommon for a certain type of person to take the opportunity to show how clever they are by engaging in hoax activity that will produce more bogus reports. I don't know whether there was genuine anomalous activity that preceded the noise in Hudson Valley, or that continued simultaneously, nor time or inclination to try to sort all that out.
I am just zeroing in specifically on the events recited in the chapter of Night Siege (Second Edition) titled "The Encounter at Indian Point," which I summarized above. If in fact three nuclear security officers, or twelve, reported (among other observations) an object hovering directly over the nuclear reactor, for 10 minutes, with various other details about the object blocking out objects behind and so forth, it is not readily apparent to me how that is squared with a plane formation in the distance. So is the theory that Imbrogno fabricated the interviews with these nuclear-plant security officers? Or if the interviews are deemed authentic, is the theory that real officers made the detailed statements attributed to them, but that these guys could not distinguish between distant planes and what they perceived as a huge and stationary object immobile, directly over the facility they were tasked to guard?
A third possibility, that the security officers made such statements but were fabricating them for fun, seems most implausible, given the sensitive nature of their employment.
When UFO reports in a region reach public news media, a lot of noise is generated -- many people who don't ordinarily look at the sky start looking, and they are amazed to see various bright objects, some of which move about -- prosaic things (planets, stars, airplanes) that they could have seen before, but they were not looking. Then too, once a flap is underway, it is not uncommon for a certain type of person to take the opportunity to show how clever they are by engaging in hoax activity that will produce more bogus reports. I don't know whether there was genuine anomalous activity that preceded the noise in Hudson Valley, or that continued simultaneously, nor time or inclination to try to sort all that out.
I am just zeroing in specifically on the events recited in the chapter of Night Siege (Second Edition) titled "The Encounter at Indian Point," which I summarized above. If in fact three nuclear security officers, or twelve, reported (among other observations) an object hovering directly over the nuclear reactor, for 10 minutes, with various other details about the object blocking out objects behind and so forth, it is not readily apparent to me how that is squared with a plane formation in the distance. So is the theory that Imbrogno fabricated the interviews with these nuclear-plant security officers? Or if the interviews are deemed authentic, is the theory that real officers made the detailed statements attributed to them, but that these guys could not distinguish between distant planes and what they perceived as a huge and stationary object immobile, directly over the facility they were tasked to guard?
A third possibility, that the security officers made such statements but were fabricating them for fun, seems most implausible, given the sensitive nature of their employment.
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