![]() ![]() On July 8, 1947, Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that they had recovered a "flying disc". In 1994, the United States Air Force published a report identifying the crashed object as a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. Decades later, conspiracy theories claimed that the debris was from a flying saucer which had been covered up by the United States government. The Roswell incident centers on the 1947 recovery of metallic and rubber debris from a military balloon that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. Perhaps the Unsolved Mysteries series will bring us just a little bit closer to answers - and resolution.Īfter learning about the Berkshire UFO incident of 1969, watch three videos of UFOs filmed by Navy pilots that were declassified by the Pentagon and then explore Skinwalker Ranch, a real-life hotbed for paranormal activity.July 8, 1947, issue of the Roswell Daily Record, announcing the "capture" of a "flying saucer"ģ3★7′01″N 105☁8′51″W / 33.95028°N 105.31417°W / 33.95028 -105.31417 Coordinates: 33★7′01″N 105☁8′51″W / 33.95028°N 105.31417°W / 33.95028 -105.31417 “Unfortunately, the party responsible was not responsive.” Meanwhile, Reed said that he and his colleagues would fight the removal.ĭespite the human drama surrounding the event, the 1969 Berkshire UFO sighting continues to fascinate UFO enthusiasts from all over the world. “The monument was removed at considerable expense to the town,” said Selectman Martin Mitsoff, who could not give the precise cost of the removal. In 2019, after there were no efforts by Thomas Reed and his colleagues to remove the structure, the town hauled away the UFO monument for good. “I think the Historical Society regrets that our words or our decision has been taken out of context,” said Krol, who added that the incident was significant to the town but the organization shouldn’t have focused on one individual (an obvious reference to Reed). The Berkshire Edge The plaque on the Berkshire UFO monument described it as “our nation’s first off-world/ UFO incident.” The Great Barrington Historical Society, which described the mass Berkshire UFO sighting as a “significant and true” event in 2015, backpedaled on its support, too. Charlie Baker, whose signature was sealed onto the UFO monument, told the Boston Globe that the signature had been issued in error. In 2018, a spokesperson for Massachusetts Gov. To add insult to injury, other parties withdrew their public support for the monument as well. “The town has bylaws and if we let one place put something up then why can’t someone else? I don’t want that to happen.”Īccording to a town land survey, the monument’s location was on a town right-of-way and had to be removed. ![]() “It’s kind of on town property and no one decided it could go there,” said Town Administrator Rhonda LaBombard. Handout/Boston Globe After the UFO monument was removed, Thomas Reed said he would fight the town’s decision.Īccording to Reed, there were no issues with the town officials during the plans to build the UFO monument. More astonishingly, there were no more glowing lights, Thomas Reed said. His grandmother and mother had switched seats. ![]() Glimpses of this strange place muddied his brain until he realized they were back inside the car. I have no idea where I was, but I know that what I saw was very different than anything I’ve even seen today 50 years later.” This was not something that you would have seen in 1969 anywhere else. This one room had a bowed-in wall that was rounded. “This hallway we had seen was circular with a Y-configuration almost to control the flow of traffic. There were lights that looked like fluorescent tubing inside this hangar.” We had a black and white television at time and the imagery that we saw on this thing was unbelievable. We could see inside the car so the light was flooding inside the car.”Īfter an amber glow emerged on both sides of the road, Reed recalled being taken to a hangar-like area that was bigger than a football field. The light started to bleed through once we broke into a little bit of a clearing. It looked like it followed the dirt road, which I’m sure it probably didn’t, but it appeared that way because we could see it through the trees. “We all looked at it because it was kind of a self-contained glow,” Thomas Reed said. ![]() The strange lights continued to spill out from behind the trees as the family crossed the covered Sheffield bridge, but they didn’t know what to make of the sight. Reed Family Thomas Reed (left) - who saw the Berkshire UFO when he was 9 years old - and his brother. ![]()
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