It was a saucer shaped object, perhaps two or three football fields in diameter
Who knew a simple shopping trip would involve a flying saucer?
It was the later months of 1973, the Christmas shopping season is in
full swing. A very pregnant Carol and her sister Louise decided to drive
from Amsterdam to Schenectady to do some Christmas shopping. So with
Carol’s toddler son in tow, the three of them were off to go holiday
shopping at the Mohawk Mall.
As it was late in the year and it was already dark before the two
women reached Schenectady. As they approached the city they were
astounded to see a large object flying at low altitude coming from the
West. The large object seemed to slow, then suddenly dropped at high
speed and hovered over the General Electric plant. As it did all the
lights in the factory dimmed and went out. Both women noted that this
power outage seemed to only be at the General Electric facility, for
they could see other city lights on in the distance.
Both women recall that the traffic on the main highway in front of
the General Electric building had come to a halt. Carol remembers that
people were getting out of their cars and seemed to be awestruck at what
they were watching. Both Carol and Louise estimate that they were
perhaps 100 yards from the GE facility.
Louise described what they saw: it was a saucer shaped object,
perhaps two or three football fields in diameter. As you got a little
closer, you could see blue, pink and yellow lights that seem to be
alternating in rotation around the bottom of the craft. The top of the
object was dull grey. Then both women tell us that almost everyone
noticed that the flying saucer was totally silent.
Carol made an interesting observation that while the lights in the GE
facility went out with the appearance of this flying saucer, the car on
the local highway did not seem to be affected.
The craft hovered over the GE facility for about five, perhaps ten
minutes, at which time the rotating lights all turned to a soft yellow
color, then the craft began to rise straight up then headed West at low
altitude away from Schenectady. After the flying object was clear of the
GE facility the power abruptly returned and again the building was full
of light.
Out on the shoulders of the highway the people who had just observed
this amazing phenomenon all had the same interesting remark, “Did this
just happen? Was it real?”
Both women remember that there was some news coverage. Back in the
car, they could hear lots of people calling the local radio stations
asking what it was that they all saw.
Oddly the TV news stations seemed satisfied to report only the local
military base’s explanation, which amounted to nothing special happened.
They also say, that in the following days the press coverage, radio and
television reports all said the event was simply some Air Force
maneuvers.
Carol’s now adult son remarked, “That it seems odd that after all
these years and with all of people who stopped in front of the GE
building that night and witnessed this amazing event … that there hasn’t
been more personal accounts reported in UFO databases and stories on
the Internet.”
Let’s look at some recent New York State sightings:
25 March 2014: at about 1 a.m. two Wallkill
residents were star gazing and observed one oval shaped light seemingly
jumping up and down in the distance. They state that it was moving up
and down so quickly there’s no way it could have been a plane.
28 March 2014: at about 5:30 a.m. a Homer motorist
was driving on State Route 281 and witnessed a bright, flaming orange
disk “the size of a house” floating in the sky 250-2000 feet above the
hills to the east of RT. 11.
31 March 2014: at about 4 p.m. a Binghamton man and
his daughter observed 20 to 30 shiny metallic objects flying together
that repeatedly transitioning from a “v” formation to a “w” then they
seemed to spread away from each other upon entering a cloud.
31 March 2014: at about 9:30 p.m. a New York City
resident reported watching a flying object with large bright light-The
object was moving rapidly and changed to at least four different colors.
2 April 2014: at about 6:30 p.m. a Saugerties
resident saw a white circle in the sky, with what looked like a black
dot in the side of it. The object moved slowly in a straight line until
it just vanished.
4 April 2014: at about 10 p.m. a retired law
enforcement officer in Auburn was looking at constellations with his
family. He was using a tablet sky map to help their observations, when
suddenly the “fully charged” tablet indicated 90% power drain. It was
then that the family observed a triangle shaped craft that seemed to
appear out of nowhere.
If you have a UFO sighting to report, you can use either one of the two national database services:
www.NUFORC.ORG or
www.MUFON.COM Both services respect confidentiality.
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