UFO Sighting: Wappingers, New York, United States

UFO Sighting Report

Date:

1987

Location:

Wappingers, New York, United States

Summary:

A summer Wednesday evening during a local rock-and-roll band's concert in Schlathaus Park, approxomately 200 people saw the phenomenon. The band even stopped playing and said, "only at an [band name] concert will people come from another galaxy to listen" or something along those lines. Object was huge, triangular, with three sets of three amber lights, and moved slowly across the sky from south to north.

Date Reported:

3/21/2006 2:30:46 AM

Sighting Time:

8pm

Day/Night:

Dusk/Evening

No. of Witnesses:

200

Duration:

2-3 minutes

Appearance / Description of Object(s)

- The most outstanding feature(s) that I remember were the three sets of three amber lights. Each set of three lights was arranged in a small (equilateral, I think) triangle and the three sets were arranged relative to each other in a large (equilateral, I think) triangle the entire size of the object. - Thinking back, it is difficult to remember whether there was color or relief to the body of the object because the amber lights were so striking. I have a vague recollection (upon which I have less confidence than in my memory of the lights) of grey relief/structure to the object almost like that of a movie spaceship.

Size of Object(s)

Relative: one forearm Absolute - difficult to judge. I think it was bigger than a baseball diamond. Perhaps 4-5 times bigger.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

Very difficult to say. Not *nearly* as high as the average airplane.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Schlathaus Park, Wappingers, NY (Hudson Valley) There were at least 150 other witnesses. The band stopped playing to watch and made a joke/comment. Densely populated rural area. I know of no special features of said area.

Full Description & Details

All was said in brief summary.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

It was unlike any object that I have seen or heard about before or since (with the exception of some objects I've checked out on this website. [ex - phoenix lights drawings have some similarity to what I saw but are not the same.])

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I was very young and knew next to nothing (other than the word "UFO.") I think that if I had any mental picture of what "UFOs" were at the time, that picture was different from what I saw.

Other Comments

Wappingers, NY has two newspapers: The Poughkeepsie Journal and the Southern Dutchess News. It's not a huge community. I believe that an ad in one of these (SDN?), asking for the other people who were at the concert in the park when the friggin' mothership flew overhead, might very well turn up credible witnesses.