Throughout the 1980s, thousands of people reported seeing a huge, triangular object in the sky in the Hudson Valley region of New York and Connecticut. Credible people ranging from CEOs to police officers recounted seeing this object hover silently and then vanish into the distance in the blink of an eye. The incident was even featured on Unsolved Mysteries. What could all those people have seen? I just finished Night Siege, a book compiling all the many reports of UFO sightings in the Hudson Valley in the 1980s by J. Allen Hynek, and was surprised to find very little information online about the phenomenon. Regardless of your thoughts on Hynek or UFOs, even today many older residents of the Hudson Valley are convinced that they saw something with no logical explanation back then. Among the most interesting reports are from an incident at the Indian Point nuclear reactor complex in 1984. Twelve security guards at the power plant saw something matching the UFO’s description—a huge, dark, triangular object with flashing lights—hovering over one of the reactors for more than ten minutes. The explanation given by authorities at the time was that the UFO was in fact ultralight aircraft flying in…
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The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings