Indian
Point Close Encounter #1 By: J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt June 14, 1984, A
thirty-five-year-old New York State Power Authority police officer that
worked as a security guard at the Indian Point nuclear reactor complex
located on the Hudson River at Buchahan, New York just south of Peekskill,
Tells his incredible story. From the book Night Siege by Dr J. Allen Hynek
and Philip J. Imbrogno Chapter 11 Page 140.
Stars were blocked from sight as the object moved between them and the guards. “As the object approached the plant, I got about as close as 500 feet from it,” Carl said. “It looked like and ice cream cone. You could see it was a solid body about the size of three football fields. At this time, it was directly over our heads, and we were looking up at it. It was still moving, but very slowly. I could walk and keep up with it, so it mist have been going slower than five to ten miles an hour.” Carl said he and the other guards watched the object for about twenty minutes. All the time you could see the structure behind it.” Only one of the three reactors was in operation, Carl said. “Ours was the only one working. This object picked the right one to fly over, and that’s what got our supervisor worried. This thing got within thirty feet of the reactor.” As on the night of June 14, there were winds gusting up to thirty knots an hour. “We were all standing there with our mouths open,” Carl said. “We were in awe of it! If the thing stayed over us, the order was already given to get ready to shoot it down. We had shotguns and were waiting for the final word to fire on it.” Another officer, who we’ll call Milton, was on duty inside, watching TV monitors at a security console that allows him to aim cameras placed at strategic points around and outside the buildings. “I received a call form Officer ---- and Officer ----, saying there was something in the sky, and I asked them what it was,” Milton told us. “They told me to swing my camera over in the direction where they saw this object.” One ot the cameras under his control was at the top of a ninety-five-foot-tall pole. “I turned my camera in that direction, and I saw eight bright lights in a V shape, very wide, almost like half circle. They were at least as bright as the landing lights on a large jet. My supervisor and I panned the camera up and sown, and the object was very large, bigger than a football field.” He said the object was so huge that he had to pan the camera nearly 180 degrees to scan it the entire object from front to back. “It was one solid structure and very large. We had it on camera for about fifteen minutes. I was trying to think of some logical explanation for what it was, but I didn’t know. Whatever it was, it was larger than a C-%A, which is the largest aircraft in the world and has a wingspan of 212 feet. This was much larger. It seemed very brazen. It acted like it didn’t care who saw it.” Still another officer, who was reluctant to be identified for fear of jeopardizing his job, said, “There was this series of lights in the shape of a boomerang, and behind it was this dark structure, and there were these two things on the bottom that looked like hollow spheres of some sort. They looked like portals that could open up and rockets or something could fly out of there. They were very dark. It was very low. It was so close I actually got scared looking at it.” 1. As the object approached the east gate of Reactor Number Three, the neclear plant’s security system shut down. Sensors that detect movement shut down, and the entire alarm system failed. 2. Inside the security console, the computer that controls all security and communications systems shut down. 3. At that time, the commander contacted Camp Smith, a New York National Guard base less than ten miles away, requesting identification of the object. No answer was given. A request was then made for an armed helicopter to shoot the object down. Before the command was given to launch the helicopter, the UFO moved away. 4. The next day, the commander of the security guards informed then that “nothing happened” and the event was to be forgotten. 5. The incident was witnessed by several plant workers as well as the security guards. 6. A number of area residents saw the object at the same time the plant guards did, and the Peekskill police received numerous calls about the UFO the same night. 7. A videotape of the object may exist, since all the security cameras automatically record everything they see and the tapes are kept for a certain period of time before being reused. However, authorities say no such tape exists. 8. All radio communications that night were also routinely recorded, but the tapes reportedly no longer exist. 9. In the days following the incident, officials of the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission visited the plant, and the entire security setup underwent a shakeup. Gerry Culliton, a reporter for radio station WVIP in Mt. Kisco, New York, did get and acknowledgment form Carl Patrick, of the plant’s information office, that the sightings had occurred. “He told me there definitely were sightings, “Culliton told us, “and he said the New York State Police did and investigation and arrested four Cessna pilots.” However, Police records confirmed that no pilots were arrested. Culliton said he asked for a copy of the UFO incident report, but was told that “all security procedures and measures that are taken here are completely confidential to protect our own security.”… TITLE: Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings (Second Edition) AUTHOR: J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt New Year's eve 1982 marked the beginning of one of the most puzzling UFO cases in recent times. The Hudson Valley "siege," as it has been named, resulted in over 7,000 sightings of a boomerang shaped craft moving silently through the sky over New York and Connecticut between 1982 and 1995. Night Siege is the collaborative effort of Hynek, Imbrogno, and Pratt to report the data gathered from witnesses of this mystifying object, while reserving their speculation of what the object might be. If you missed the first edition of Night Siege, this is your chance to delve into the Hudson Valley mystery. If you have read the first edition, you may be interested in the additional data covering sightings from1986 to 1995, a graphical analysis of the UFO's appearance, and a chronology of the sightings. Reviewer: A reader from New York USA October 22, 1999 This is without a doubt the best book on UFOs ever written. I read it cover to cover in one night. It reads like an adventure story and it is proof of something strange in the skies. The best book on the subject I have come across in thirty years!! Exciting I could not put it down Reviewer: A reader from New York, New York May 6, 1999 This book documents a UFO event that made history.. I must thank the authors for writing such a riviting book that proves we are being Visted by ETs... A work of reading Art Great Factual Book and Good Research Reviewer: A reader from Sheldo, CT May 5, 1999 This book has to be one of the best well researched book I have ever read. It takes thousands of sightings and puts them into a frame of no nonsense. It is books like this that will make the public accept the truth that UFOs are real! The original investigators of the New York UFO Highly readable no-nonsense UFO investigations Reviewer: A reader from USA August 2, 1998 I originally discovered this book a number of years ago and found myself devouring its contents in a matter of a day or so. I was impressed by the straightforward and sceptical(though cencerned) attitude of the researchers/authors toward a subject that is fraught with silly cultural hyperbole and media saturation. They do not presume to know what is going on at any time during their accounts of the events nor do they presume to tell readers what to think about same. Thier apparent honesty in reporting the facts and my living in such close proximity to the research area made reading the many detailed encounters that much more chilling. I read most of the updated section recently while waiting for friends at a local bookstore. This section, if my memory serves me well, seemed out of sych with rest of the book with regard to the types of sightings; there seemed to be more of the close-up and invasive kind in the years since the first research in the area. All in all I have! read few other books on this subject that I found myself reading cover to cover. Enjoy! Publisher's Synopsis From UFOinfo.com In 1983, just a few miles north of New York City, hundreds of suburbanites were startled to see something hovering in the sky. They described it as a series of flashing lights that formed a "V," as big as a football field, moving slowly and silently. It has been seen many times since then, yet the media has remained silent about it, as has the military, the FAA, and the nationUs scientists. Now, in Night Siege, expert UFO investigators reveal the amazing evidence that cannot be denied and the more than 7,000 sightings that cannot be dismissed. A classic in the field, Night Siege has been called one of the best researched and factual UFO books to date. This second edition is revised and expanded with sightings up to 1995. From the Book Cover CAN 7,000 EYEWITNESSES BE WRONG? They were there to witness the huge, hovering object in the sky, the flashing lights, the eerie silence. They are ordinary people from all walks of life: stay-at-home moms, kids, business people, and engineers. They tell their stories here, and that all agree on one thing: they saw the same massive object cruising over their backyards. And it was nothing they'd seen before.... To this day, the military, the media and scientists have remained silent about the Hudson Valley phenomenon. Yet eyewitness reports still continue 15 years after the first sighting. What's going on? In Night Siege, expert UFO investigators uncover the real story. Night Siege is widely known as a classic in the UFO field for its in-depth reporting of the strange sightings in New York's Hudson Valley in the 1980s. Now Night Siege has been updated to also cover the latest sightings and close encounters -- 7,000 reported between 1982 and 1995. Are spaceships flying over New York? Seven thousand eyewitnesses couldn't be wrong. The late Dr. J. Allen Hynek was a professional astronomer and author of The UFO Experience. For 20 years he was the scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force in its investigation of UFO phenomena. Science educator Philip J. Imbrogno is the author of Contact of the Fifth Kind and Crosswalks across the Universe. Journalist Bob Pratt is a former editor of the MUFON UFO Journal and author of UFO Danger Zone.
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