Hudson Valley: Brewster Mass Sighting — Football-Field-Sized Craft
Massive boomerang-shaped craft observed by hundreds of witnesses over Brewster, New York. Estimated the size of a football field or larger, with multicolored lights. Multiple police officers and a private pilot among witnesses. The pilot estimates the object at 1,000 feet long. Object moves slowly and silently, occasionally hovering. Phone lines to local police jammed with calls. One of the most significant nights of the Hudson Valley wave.
Background
1. On March 17, 1983, hundreds of witnesses in Brewster, New York, observed a massive, boomerang-shaped craft. The object, estimated to be the size of a football field, displayed multicolored lights and moved slowly. Multiple police officers and a private pilot were among the witnesses.
The Incident
The event involved a large, boomerang or V-shaped object with red, green, and white lights moving slowly across the sky. The object was witnessed by a retired New York City police officer on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1982, in the town of Kent, near the Connecticut border. The witness reported a faint, deep hum emanating from the object, describing it as sounding "like a factory with a lot of machines running in the distance."
The witness and his wife videotaped the object as it passed directly over their house at an estimated altitude of 500 feet. The retired officer reported feeling a deep vibration in his chest as the object passed overhead. The multi-colored lights then vanished, replaced by three bright white lights in a triangular shape, which then went out, followed by the appearance of about fifteen multi-colored lights. The object then moved slowly out of sight towards Interstate 84, at the state border.
The Hudson Valley sightings, including the Brewster event, typically involved low-flying, silent objects hovering over highways. These objects shined bright lights to the ground and glided away, sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly. By the mid-1980s, thousands of witnesses from across the sociological spectrum reported seeing similar phenomena in lower New York State and Connecticut.
Investigation
The source text does not provide information about any official investigation into the Brewster sighting or the broader Hudson Valley sightings. The sightings were investigated by a number of investigators, most notably a local science teacher named Philip Imbrogno, who described the phenomenon in the book Night Siege.
Significance
The Hudson Valley sightings, including the Brewster event, are significant due to the large number of witnesses and the consistency of their descriptions. The witnesses came from diverse backgrounds, adding credibility to their accounts. The recurring description of a large, boomerang-shaped object with unusual lighting and silent movement challenges conventional explanations. The Hudson Valley sightings represent a cluster of UFO events that have contributed to the ongoing discussion and investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena.