In 1969, residents of Berkshire County, Massachusetts (USA) fell into chaos after many people reported seeing a flying saucer (UFO-Bay of Unidentified Object).
The panic surrounding the scene was far from the region and shocked people across the United States. In Roswell, New Mexico, a replica of the flying saucer is even on display at the International UFO Museum.
This strange process will be reimagined via a file in the Netflix TV series, slated to premiere this July. And below is the amazing story behind the mission.
Unknown dark time
On the evening of January 9, 1969, strange lights suddenly shone down on the town of Sheffield, south of the Berkshires. Many people who have seen these glowing lights say they are mounted on a UFO.
According to eyewitness reports, the UFO on the mission was a saucer-shaped aircraft that made messy impacts in the skies above the Berkshires. It is not known exactly how long this phenomenon lasted, but many eyewitnesses of the UFO encounter described losing their sense of time.
Berkshires là một vùng nông thôn cao nguyên ở phía Tây tiểu bang Massachusetts. Nơi đây có những vùng đất hoang vu rộng lớn, trở thành điểm du lịch nổi tiếng với những người thích đi bộ đường dài và những người yêu thiên nhiên trong mùa hè. Berkshires cũng bao gồm nhiều thị trấn nhỏ, và với những sinh vật bên ngoài trái đất tò mò, thì đây có thể là một địa điểm lý tưởng để ghé thăm.
Cuộc chạm trán UFO xảy ra tại Berkshire dường như đủ mạnh để lùi lại một cảm giác khó hiểu kéo dài. Học sinh say mê vẽ UFO trong lớp học khi người lớn liên tục gọi cho các đài phát thanh để giải thích những gì họ đã thấy.
“We had a lot of listeners calling the station that evening,” said David Isy, General Manager of WSBS Local Radio. “They didn’t know it was a UFO at the time, they just called the station saying something strange had happened.”
Many people, when they saw the strange ship glowing in the night, felt very bewildered. No one seemed to know exactly what they were seeing, but they clearly knew they had witnessed something strange. The incident has since been known as the 1969 Berkshire UFO incident.
After the night of January 9, 1969, about 40 people reported seeing UFOs. Some of them were children and all are still living locally to this day.
“Children go to school, talking about this event,” said Robert Krol, director of the Great Barrington Historical Society, in 2018 – “One was a former student of mine. One was a local shopkeeper whose father was the town police chief. So they are trustworthy people. This is not a self-promotion.”
Eyewitness reports were so rich and compelling that some 45 years later, the local Great Barrington Historical Society took on the task of deploying UFO Berkshire as “the first extraterrestrial/UFO incident in the history of use water.” My”.
Is the 1969 Berkshire UFO real?
Whether you believe the eyewitness stories or not, the 1969 Berkshire UFO case was certainly a remarkable event for the townspeople of Sheffield.
Of the many people who claimed to have seen the UFO or its strange lights, the most prominent witness was Thomas Reed. According to Reed’s report, he saw the UFO on the evening of January 9, 1969, when he was a 9-year-old boy. At that time, the boy Reed was sitting in the car with his mother, grandmother and brother. As Reed recalls, his family was returning home from the Village on the Green restaurant. Suddenly, they noticed a bright mass of images emanating from behind the lush trees on the empty road.
Strange lights continued to spill from behind the trees as the Reeds crossed the covered bridge in Sheffield, but they had no idea what had caused the sight.
“We all look in that direction, because it is the light of success. Then it went up a little bit. It looks like it’s following the path… Light starts to pour in as we try to get closer. The light flooded into the car, making us see clearly in our car.”
After an amber light emerged on either side of the road, Reed remembered being taken to a hangar-like area, larger than a football field. “We have faced that. It certainly does not belong to this world. We had a black and white television at the time and the image we saw on this object was unbelievable. There are lights like fluorescent tubes inside this hangar,” Reed said.
“The corridor we saw was circular with a Y-shaped interchange almost to control the flow of traffic. This room has a bow wall. It’s not something you’ve seen in 1969 anywhere. I don’t know where I am, but I know what I see is very different from anything I’ve seen until today, 50 years later.”
Even fleeting glimpses of this strange place remained deep in Reed’s mind, until he realized they were back in the car. His grandmother and mother had moved seats. What’s quiet is that there isn’t much of a bright glow anymore, said Reed.
Reed became the most vocal witness to the 1969 Berkshire UFO incident. He convinced other witnesses to raise money to build a concrete memorial next to the Sheffield Bridge where he and his family had seen the UFO. Later, Reed also established the non-profit UFO Monument Park to maintain the plot of land where the monument is located.
Controversy in the town of Sheffield
But UFO station Berkshire became the subject of tension in Sheffield before it was dismantled in 2019.
Disagreements between those who believed that the UFO memorial marked an important event in the town’s history and others who viewed the monument as an object that could be an eyesore began to stir up public opinion.
In 2019, just about four years after Reed built the UFO memorial, the town government gave it permission to leave it permanently.
However, the 1969 Berkshire UFO mission continues to fascinate UFO enthusiasts from around the world. Maybe the Netflix TV series called “Unsolved Mysteries” (Unsolved Mysteries) will bring us a little closer to the answer.
The 1969 Berkshire UFO story goes beyond Sheffield. In Roswell, New Mexico (the site of another famous UFO encounter), the International UFO Museum displayed a model of a UFO that Berkshire allegedly visited.
