Size of Object(s)

15 foot diameter disk

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

ground to treetops--aout twenty to thirty feet

Shape of Object(s)

disk

Color of Object(s):

Darkness aside from the lights

Full Description & Details

At a campsite about one hundred feet from a hiking trail just outside Woodstock, New York, two couples saw headlights, thought it was forest ranger or police. The headlights faded and went dark. Shortly afterward, the lights were just above the tree tops, approaching from the direction of the trail. It was a ring of lights with a fifteen feet diameter, with one large light in the center. As it approached, there was a sound eminating from the hull; a low and unsteady beeping, or rhythmic hum. It paused briefly above our campsite. The other couple sat staring with me, in amazement, but also with a certain level of detachment. My girlfriend sat talking on the subject of mundane college gossip, never once stopping, but in fact talking on overdrive, with no concern that the rest of us were not listening, or interjecting in any way. It was almost as if she had been switched to auto pilot and was compelled to serve as a form of distraction.

The hovering disk of lights floated above briefly and then continued on toward the deeper parts of the Catskills forest.

Strange that afterward, a fog rolled in literally on the heels of this disk of lights. And perhaps as strange, was the personality conflict that ensued. No one spoke of the disk, as it was an awkward situation; my chatty girfriend commanding the circle of conversation, even being aggressive it seemed; as people brought up the subject of the lights in the trees, she would immediately talk over them. And when after several hours that she did acknowledge what she saw, she would scoff and say that what it was was obviously a helicopter. But when I retorted that a helicopter that close would have caused much wind, and thunderous noise. Even a so called whisper helicopter is not without sound.

My thoughts are that my girlfriend at the time, Lucy Charlton, who was a very direct person, very straight forward and simple, was the most unaccepting of such phenomenon, who would probably have denied ever being in the position of witnessing such an event, could have been manipulated by those aliens into playing the role of primal human assumption and ignorance, serving their intentions of discreetness perfectly.

The rest of us had no doubt that what we saw was not of human civilization. Some of John Mack's students heard me tell this tale and speculated that I may have been, or came close to being abducted. Some were interested in the race of each person who was present. We were; one Black, one Asian, one Hispanic, and one caucasian. One person in the class thought that would explain why they would approach, pause, and then continue on. They were not interested in stealing any mixed couples. Funny how people think--that such details would matter to an outsider. Oh well, who knows for sure.

Witness Background

36 year old male. Accounting professional with degree in Environmental Science. Father of two little girls, and an avid hiker, outdoor recreationalist.

Other Comments

After the experience, I became obsessed with seeing the object again. I continue to visit the spit to this day (whenever I am out east); which is near a mystical place known as Magic Meadows, where most locals have stories about weird and unexplainable events. I guess this goes back to the time of Washington Irving.

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