AudioBlog: UFOs over Pine Bush, NY

by Charles LearIn the 1980s, New York’s Hudson River Valley was
home to a wave of extraordinary UFO encounters by thousands of
people. It was explained away as a hoax perpetrated by a group of
nighttime pilots in ultralights and this was enough to make it fade
from the public consciousness, even among those in the UFO
community. However, one town in the area has kept the memory of the
events alive with a yearly fair and a recently opened UFO museum.A
book about the wave, “Night Siege” by J. Allen Hynek, Philip
Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt, was published in 1998. Hynek died in 1986
before the book was published but actively investigated and
contributed to the book. His wife, Mimi, helped edit the book after
his death.According to “Night Siege,” the wave began in Kent, New
York, on New Year’s Eve 1982 with a sighting by a retired New York
City police officer identified by the pseudonym,“Tony Vallor. He’d
just christened his new house by smashing a champagne bottle
against it, and his wife had sent him back outside to clean up the
broken glass after he’d told her about it. As he was cleaning up
the glass, he saw a group of red, green, and white lights to the
south. At first he thought he was seeing a jet having trouble but
it was moving too slowly to be a jet. Read more