Hudson Valley Boomerang Wave Begins: Kent, New York
A retired NYC police officer in Kent, NY near the Connecticut border sees a huge boomerang/V-shaped craft with red, green, and white lights near midnight on New Year's Eve. It passes at 500 feet with a deep hum 'like a factory with machines running.' He videotapes it. Another witness on I-84 sees a boomerang 'so huge it filled up the entire sky,' which descends toward his car and shoots a beam of white light. The witness feels telepathic communication and hears a 'voice' telling him not to be afraid. These are the first sightings of the massive Hudson Valley wave that will produce thousands of witnesses through the mid-1980s. Investigated by Philip Imbrogno (book: Night Siege).
Background
1. On December 31, 1982, near midnight, a retired NYC police officer in Kent, New York, witnessed a large, boomerang-shaped object with multiple colored lights. The object emitted a deep humming sound and passed directly over his house at a low altitude.
The Incident The retired police officer was outside his home cleaning up after a New Year's Eve celebration when he observed red, green, and white lights moving slowly across the sky. The lights appeared to be connected in a boomerang or V-shape. He described the sound emanating from the object as a faint, deep hum, similar to a factory with running machinery.
He called his wife, who brought out a video camera, and they recorded the object as it passed directly over their house at an estimated altitude of 500 feet. The officer reported feeling a deep vibration in his chest as the object passed overhead. The multi-colored lights then vanished, and three bright white lights appeared in a triangular shape. The white lights then went out, and about fifteen multi-colored lights came on. The object then moved slowly out of sight towards Interstate 84, near the state border. The witness stated that it was unlike any aircraft he knew of.