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ufos over pine bush new york by charles

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lear in the 1980s new york's hudson

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river valley was home to a wave of

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extraordinary ufo encounters by

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thousands of people it was explained

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away as a hoax perpetrated by a group of

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nighttime pilots and ultralights and

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this was enough to make it fade from the

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public consciousness even among those in

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the ufo community however one town in

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the area has kept the memory of the

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events alive with a yearly fair and

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recently opened ufo museum a book about

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the wave knight siege by j.l and heineck

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philippine bruno and bob pratt was

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published in 1998 heineck died in 1986

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before the book was published but

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actively investigated and contributed to

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the book his wife mimi helped edit the

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book after his death according to night

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siege the wave began in kent new york on

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new year's eve 1982 with a sighting by a

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retired new york city police officer

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identified by the pseudonym tony valor

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he just christened his new house by

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smashing a champagne bottle against it

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and his wife had sent him back outside

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to clean up the broken glass after he

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told her about it as he was cleaning up

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the glass he saw a group of red green

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and white lights to the south at first

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he thought he was seeing a jet having

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trouble but it was moving too slowly to

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be a jet fowler called for his wife and

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told her to bring their movie camera as

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she stepped out the lights were over the

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house valor told the researchers that

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they seemed to be connected by a

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v-shaped or boomerang-like structure he

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said he heard a loud hum like a factory

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full of machines operating at a distance

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as valor was filming the object which

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was about 500 feet above him the colored

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lights went out and three lights

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remained that formed a triangle the

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investigators examined the film and

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reported in the book that the white

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lights were clearly visible with faint

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colored lights in the background but

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they could see no structure soon there

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were sightings all over the hudson

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valley of what became known as the

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westchester boomerang named after

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westchester county where many were

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concentrated local police departments

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received literally hundreds of calls

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sometimes on a single night police

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officers themselves were among the

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witnesses the most common description

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was of a large boomerang-shaped object

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with lights along its arms they were

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said to be as big as one two or three

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football fields to hover or move as

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slowly as 15 miles per hour and were

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said to be completely silent an odd

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claim that shows up repeatedly is that a

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witness says they found themselves

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wishing for a better view and that as

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soon as they thought that the object

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moved quickly towards them and hovered

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in front of or above them

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pine bush new york is between 15 and 20

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miles west of the hudson river in orange

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county as the hudson valley wave faded

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after 1987 reports continued to come out

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of pine bush the area was put into the

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ufo spotlight in 1991 when ellen crystal

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published silent invasion also written

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with philip and bruno which chronicles

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her 11-year investigation there the book

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may be hard to take seriously by some

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crystal describes seeing on her very

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first outing more than a dozen ships

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flying about and periodically landing in

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and taking off from a field it does

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contain names of witnesses to more

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likely events along with descriptions

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crystal was introduced to the area by

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harry levelson a writer for omni

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magazine posted as the sole person at

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the ufo desk lebelson wrote an article

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on pinebush for the magazine after

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coming to the area and interviewing

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witnesses in her book crystal says that

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the editors at omni didn't take ufos

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seriously but saw them as good for

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business

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what was unique about pine bush was that

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it seemed to be a paranormal hot spot

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besides ufos there were reports of

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cryptids phantoms strange mechanical

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rumblings heard coming from under the

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ground and farmers reported finding

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large sections of earth moved in their

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fields after seeing lights there the

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night before more and more people

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started coming to pinebush to skywatch

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and explore lines of cars parked along

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the roads and people gathering in the

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farm fields became common at the same

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time pinebush was becoming more

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developed as no trespassing signs

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started to appear all over the area

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there were frequent conflicts between

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the property owners and the paranormal

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adventurers in 2000 a rumor started that

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pine bush had passed the law against sky

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watching what had actually happened

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according to the article they came from

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pinebush posted on the hudson valley

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magazine website was that there had been

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an altercation between a developer and

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some sky watchers with encouragement

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from the developer the police began

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enforcing a parking rule that made it

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illegal to park along west searsville

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road a popular sky watching spot

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according to the introduction on the

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website the pine bush anomaly archive

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the loss of the farm fields to

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developers led to a loss of interest in

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the pine bush phenomenon as there was

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less space available to explore or

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gathered together in groups however two

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new jersey residents who met as sky

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watchers in the area in 1995 managed to

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reignite interest in the area for those

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who were paranormal curious in 2003

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vincent police started the website

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pinebushufo.com where he posted several

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of his pictures and accounts of his

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paranormal experiences in pinebush in

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2005 police published the book the pine

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bush phenomenon then in 2008 police and

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his friend c burns who keeps his

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identity a secret for fear of his

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interest interfering with his employment

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launched the pine bush anomaly archive

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and rebooted it in 2017

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also involved is linda zimmerman who has

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been researching and compiling witness

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accounts of ufos in the hudson valley

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area since 2011. both police and burns

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can be heard in a recent interview

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describing their experiences on the

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episode ufo activity in pinebush new

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york on ufo headquarters with linda

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zimmerman and michael warden

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in 2011 the first pine bush ufo festival

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was held thanks to the efforts of an

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organizing committee chaired by sue

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wyand in 2013 it was expanded into an

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all-day event and festival was replaced

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by fair it is held on the saturday of

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labor day weekend and draws around 7 000

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people there are talks by ufo

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researchers and celebrities along with a

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parade and costume contest world famous

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podcast ufo host martin willis attended

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this year's fair on june 4th of this

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year the pinebush ufo and paranormal

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museum was opened creator and director

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of the museum lance holliwell was

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interviewed on the ufo headquarters

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episode aptly titled the pine bush ufo

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and paranormal museum hollowell had

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experience as an event creator having

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put together the halloween event around

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the legend of sleepy hollow in sleepy

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hollow new york and approach the museum

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in the same way instead of displays

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where visitors walk around and read the

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museum offers guided tours and a more

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immersive experience

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the reader might be thinking that pine

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bush is now the east coast roswell and

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some of the locals reportedly think of

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it that way while that name has also

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been used for exeter new hampshire and

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kecksburg pennsylvania pinebush has made