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From: Ron Cecchini <Ron.Cecchini@GD-CS.COM>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:25:16 -0400
Fwd Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 07:50:58 -0400
Subject: UpDate: '76-'78 Garden City/Long Island, NY Sighting?


This past weekend, after having briefly mentioned something to a
relative about Hudson Valley/Pine Bush/New York UFO sightings, I
'accidentally' found myself listening to one man's (not my
relative's) story about his sighting.


Long-story-short:

This person, after exhibiting a bit of surprise that I was
interested, and after a bit of trepidation, told me this:

The year was '76, '77 or '78. I asked him if he could recall
the exact year any clearer and he couldn't. In retrospect I
realize I should've asked for the time of year, but I didn't.

He was in Garden City, NY, which is on Long Island, almost
exactly 25 miles due East of NYC. The time was sometime between
11 pm & 1 am. At the the time, he was working for the NY Times
as a truck driver and was busy loading the bundles of newspapers
into his truck.

He then noticed a formation of lights nearly directly over his
head, or at a large angle to the horizon. He estimates that the
object was within a couple hundred feet from where he stood.

The lights were stationary ("hovering") and he did not hear any
noise.

I asked him to describe the formation of the lights, and he kept
saying (he seemed to actually immerse himself in the moment and
seemed to lose himself) "... they were... alternating... sort of
pulsing..."

I asked him again to describe the shape of the formation, if he
could. He didn't seem to be giving an answer, so I then came
out and asked "Were the lights in a circle, as far as you can
tell?" He couldn't confirm or deny it.

"Did you notice the color of the lights?" Again he wasn't sure
and wasn't giving a clear answer. So I asked whether or not the
lights were all white, or all some other color, or
multi-colored. Again he couldn't give a definitive answer, but
I had the impression that he was describing lights that were all
of the same color. He did say that the lights were very, very
bright.

He then apparently suddenly remembered something and blurted:
"The lights... they were all sort of square!... ya know?" I
asked "You saw that the lights were in a square formation or
that the _lights_ were square-shaped?"

(in paraphrase)"Yeah... I think so...the lights...there were
multiple, very bright lights... they were alternating...you
know, like, only one was lit at a time... and the lights seemed
to be kind of square..."

I asked if it looked like an advertisement banner on the side of
a blimp or on a billboard. "No," he said, "it _definitely_
wasn't a blimp."

I asked if anyone else at the Times was there with him and also
observed the same thing.

"No, I was alone...I always thought that was weird... It was
like I alone was meant to see this..."

"How did your sighting end?"
"I'm not sure..."

So I risked "leading the witness" and asked:
"Did you see the object fly away or what?"
"I'm not sure..."

"I mean, did you see the object slowly move away, or did it zip
away, or did it suddenly disappear...what?"
"I'm really not sure. I know I watched it for a few minutes, but
I really can't say how I stopped being able to see it."

I paraphrased for him:

"So, sometime between 1976 and 1978, between 11 pm and 1 am, in
Garden City, NY, you saw at a distance of within a couple
hundred feet, a silently hovering formation of very bright
lights that were 'alternating'. You saw them, fairly close by
and nearly over head, for a few minutes... and then you didn't
see them any more. Is that it?"
"Correct."

"You never reported this to anyone or anything?"
"No... I've only told one or two people... and now you... in all
these years...I don't know why..."

This person appeared very sincere and reliable. I was impressed
that he actually said "I'm not sure", instead of simply saying
"Yeah, it was a circle!" or "Yeah, there were all white!", etc,
when I provided him with those options.

And again I stress that there was a certain "earnestness" in his
voice, he seemed to almost relive the experience as he talked to
me. I happened to have opportunity to run into him again the
following day (he worked at the place where I had to be -- I'm
being intentionally vague) and the first thing he asked was
whether or not I had been able to find anything on the computer
that night (I had told him that I'd start doing some searching
on the computer to find something that sounded like his story).

He very convincingly conveyed to me that he really wants to know
what it is that he saw over 20 years ago.

...

Ok, so that wasn't a "long-story-short", but can anyone help me
search a database of Long Island/NYC sightings between the years
'76 & '78? If need be, I could probably try to get him to nail
down the approximate month he had his sighting.

Thank you muchly.

p.s. this story doesn't even compare to the ones I just
    heard (from people that I trust as much as I can
    possibly trust anyone) that took place in Pine Bush
    around '81-'83.