- This story is proof positive of the UFO coverup by news
sources.
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- On August 25th 1985 I along with 10 other newsmen were
on duty at the Poughkeepsie Journal, New York's oldest newspaper and one
of the flagships of the Gannett News Service.
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- It was about 9:35 pm when one of our photogs radioed
in that one of those giant boomerang UFOs that people had been reporting
for years was heading south on Route 9.
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- Mind you, on this day it was during the Dutchess County
Fair, one of the oldest and biggest county fairs in the U.S. Roughly 20,000
people leaving the fair's festivities for home, were travelling that highway
heading south from Rhinebeck, NY about 18 miles north of Poughkeepsie -
about 75 miles north of NY City).
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- Our photog stated that the craft was huge and headed
south and it might be visible from our office windows which are on the
3rd floor. I and two editors dashed to the northern window of the managing
editor's office and sure enough at a distance of approximately 5 miles
we saw a dark shape about 100ft above the ground with amber and red lights
slowly growing bigger as it headed our way.
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- It was big, slow moving and in no way was supposed to
be flying over residential areas. Folks up there have shotguns and use
em' at the drop of a hat! Very old republican territory. Folks still beef
about Pearl Harbor like it was yesterday.
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- On the highway thousands and thousands of people were
so alarmed they bolted from their cars to gander at this craft.
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- Of the ten editors/reporters there I believe only 3 were
non ex-military. I stood there and watched as the craft suddenly got within
a couple miles and shut off it's lights, aft to fore, while pivoted port,
traveled east a bit, then startingly hard starboard turn heading straight
for us!
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- This thing got HUGE and believe it or not flew right
over top of us by about 40 ft. It had to be 200ft wide and was jet black.
The illumination of the street lights not reflecting anything off it's
surface that we could determine.
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- Wanting to get a better glimpse of it we dashed to the
other windows to see if it had passed overhead. Couldn't be seen and we
realized it might be hovering over us. Sure enough, that's what it did!
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- We dashed to one of the bathrooms facing east and that's
when the craft turned east again and glided over the more heavily populated
section of the city, noiselessly and was gone.
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- Mind you, tens of thousands saw this as clear as a bell.
Veteran military and veteran news and veteran law enforcement as well.
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- I immediately thought of Stan Friedman as he had lectured
of UFOs at Dutchess Community College several years earlier and we ran
a kind story about it. ( Yes Stan I was leaning over the city desk making
sure it got in KINDLY :)
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- Well, we're sitting there screaming at the photogs and
reporters that this will be the story of the century. We had access to
AP, Gannett etc. and USAToday which we mainly put out.
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- Nope. Word came down from on high that not one word was
to be mentioned. Solid object, hovered, maneuvered seen by tens of thousands
, pictures taken, and no mention anywhere.
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- Next day, some 'menacing' chaps showed up in our editorial
office. I got in trouble for staring back just as menacingly. That night
at the local watering hole where I would sit and do sketches after work
another big menacing fellow waltzes in with a stack of papers and pics
8 inches high. Slams them on the bar and bellows a threat:
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- " So! Somebody in here wanted to talk about UFOs?
"
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- He made a big mistake. My high school and college chums
were at the bar that night and we are just as big and menacing. He was
ceremoniously ushered out of the bar by about 3,000 pounds of very angry
citizens.
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- This was the first time that craft flew over our newspaper
but wasn't the last.
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- A year later, a HUGE saucer shaped craft did the same
thing. We all bolted outside this time on the roof of the building and
saw a circle of lights about a half mile wide hovering over a local monument
that rests on a hill that couples go to pitch woo.
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- It was there for about 10 minutes and cops, people all
saw it.
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- Then the remarkable part. As I dashed downstairs to get
my trusty telescope from my van to get a closer look, I suddenly looked
straight up and another large boomerang object was directly overhead!
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- Three people were in the parking lot at that time with
me and we stared at it and then it kicked in orange afterburners, I recall
six laterally on it's aft section, took off like a rocket due west at high
speed and then did a hard bank port that suprised us and must've taken
off SW at over 500 mph easy. You could HEAR the afterburners kick in overhead
and this thing at about 100ft high was about 100ft wide.
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- It wasn't the source of the circular lights but we suspect
the boomerang shaped object chased away the circular object.
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- That's two UFOs in one, at night close up, again multiple
witnesses.
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- I've seen these craft about 6 times and way back in 1980
a friend got pics of it. The first time I'd heard of it and we developed
the film at the newspaper ourselves. Nothing unusual but definitely the
boomerang shape and we figured just another test aircraft that that region
is famous for testing.
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- Yet again. Mum was the word and there was heck to pay
if you pressed the issue at the evening editor's meeting.
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