Since the beginning of 1983, the residents of the Hudson Valley area of New York and nearby Connecticut have seen something very strange in the night sky. The UFO has been described as being larger than a football field with multicolored flashing lights. The object seems to take on a boomerang shape, but at times it also has appeared circular. Most witnesses report that it is a solid object made up of some type of very dark, gun-grey material. The object has been seen by at least five thousand witnesses which include police officers, scientists and people from all walks of life. All indicate that the silent, slow moving UFO was something that they had never seen before and could not identify.
Hundreds of people in the Connecticut area have now gone on record as seeing the strange boomerang shaped UFO.
On January 9 1986 the UFO was reported over the skies in the greater Hartford, Connecticut area. At about 9:00 p.m. the police in Hartford and neighboring towns started to receive numerous calls of a low flying large object with many lights. At first they dismissed the calls but got concerned when the calls continued. At about 9:15 the police telephone lines were jammed from people calling in reporting the UFO. At that time, police officers were sent to investigate the reports and noticed as they approached highway I-84 in Hartford that traffic was backed up. They noticed that many people were getting out of their cars and were looking up at the sky. The officers arrived just in time to see a large boomerang pattern of lights slowly drift toward the south-west.
One witness who saw the UFO at that time was a Mrs. Diane Duont, aged 40 and a resident of West Hartford. Mrs. Duont was in the area of Hartford where highway 84 runs into 91, right in the heart of town. Mrs. Duont's sighting account is related below:
"I watched as these lights approached and I was surprised that I heard no sound at all. They seemed to be in a boomerang shape and all white. I could not see any structure, but this thing just blocked out the sky. I estimated its size to be about that of a 747, but it's shape was strange...it looked like a flying wing."
The UFO did not disappear, it continued to head south and was seen over New Britain. Here many people ran out of their homes to see the giant UFO pass overhead. The time was about 9:15 p.m. One witness told us that he stood and watched it pass over his street. He reported that the underside was a dark grey like structure with all kinds of tubes and grids connecting the bottom. He said that the lights were flashing and were all white with a red one in the middle. He also said that the lights were in a boomerang shape but he could also make out a dark structure that extended toward the rear that made it look kite shaped. He and his neighbors just stood in awe as it passed over their homes without a sound.
Extract from Night Siege Update, by Philip J. Imbrogno
Photograph (7k .jpg) of the "Lubbock lights", 30 August 1951, Lubbock, Texas.