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- Contact of the Fourth Kind
-
- (Abductions in the Hudson Valley area of New York)
-
- By. Philip J. Imbrogno
-
-
-
- Over the past five years the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area
- have been the scene of a massive number of UFO sightings. The numbers of
- reports are so great that I believe this area has the highest number of raw
- UFO sighting reports in the entir e world. These reports are documented in
- my book NIGHT SIEGE THE HUDSON VALLEY UFO SIGHTS which I co-authored with
- the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Mr. Bob Pratt.
-
- I have been asked over the years by many UFO researchers if there have
- been any close encounter-abduction type cases in the Hudson Valley . My
- answer to most was No.Only to few did I admite that there were abduction
- cases and plenty of them. This denial of such cases was at the request of
- Dr. Hynek since he wanted NIGHT SIEGE to be a documentation of the many UFO
- reports in the Hudson Valley.D. Hynek also wanted to keep these cases quiet
- until we had more data about the sightings in the area.
-
- With so many reports over the years and with the sighting still
- continuing it was only a matter of time before the growing number of
- Abduction cases in the Hudson Valley had to be dealt with.
-
- To this date I have been contacted by at least 75 people who feel as if
- they had more than a sighting. Of the 75 there are 25 that would be
- suitable for further study.Of these twenty five ten come from professional
- backrounds.All do not want any type o f publicity. I will explore two of
- these cases in this article. At the witnesses request, I have changed their
- names to protect them.I would also like to inform the reader that Whitley
- Strieber, author of the best selling book COMMUNION experiences took place
- in the Hudson Valley area. Since the publication of his book many people
- have come forward with incredible stories,people who would otherwise would
- have kept silent.
-
- On July 2 1987 I received a call from a 36 year old woman from Toms River
- New Jersey who I shall call Gail. Gail was very troubled on the phone and
- insisted that she talk to me about a UFO related experience that she had.
- During the last part of June (1 987) as she was lying down on her bed, she
- felt some what uneasy as if someone was watching her.The time was Ten PM.
- She then heard a voice say" We have come for you..You will not be hurt."
- She then realized that her entire body was paralyzed and that she could
- only move her eyes.Gail was lying on her back and noticed that three beings
- stood in the doorway to her bedroom. She was alone in the house at the
- time,but does live there with her seventeen year old daughter who was away
- visiting her father in Croton Falls N.Y. Gail is divorced.
-
- Three beings were dressed in something that looked like tightly fitting
- jumpsuits and stood in a single row,one behind the other. The leader,
- according to Gail seemed to have a problem getting into the room. It was as
- if sometype of invisible sheild was blocking his way. He lifted up his
- hand and pressed them against the invisible sheild,then he put his
- hand>4^[e light in the hall was dim,and she could not see their
- features. She noticed they were about five feet tall with very long arms.
-
- The leader then took some type of rod out from a side pocket and turned
- the bottom of it. The rod then glowed with a green light and he passed it
- over the doorway area. They then walked into the room without any effort.
- As they entered the room still in a single file she noticed that they had
- large heads and eyes that looked like a cats which wrapped around their
- heads. She never heard them talk but heard all kinds on buzzing noises in
- her head when the leader communicated with the others.
-
- Gail tried to scream but could not,she could only move her eyes.The leader
- placed himself on her right side and then one of them went to the foot of
- the bed and the other on the left side of the bed. The beings on each side
- of her then placed their hand s under her head and raised it up. She then
- noticed that the one on her left took a tube of what like like a narrow
- roll of white cotton and started pushing it up her left nostril.At that
- moment she felt extreme pain in her head and then started to lose co
- nscious. She felt as if she was falling from a great height,then she does
- not remeber anymore.
-
- The next thing she recalls is waking up at 8am with a very bad headache.
- As she walked to the bathroom her nose (both nostrils started to bleed. She
- felt as if something was stuck up her nose,but nothing was there. She
- looked in the bathroom mirror and noticed her nose was swollen and
- puffy.She she noticed a rash on her neck,legs and slightly on her arms.
-
- She had hoped that the experience from that last night was a dream and
- tried to block it out of her head. When her daughter arrived home that
- night she told her about what happened.Gail told me that before she even
- finsihed with her story her daughter s tarted shaking and then told her
- that on the same night, about the same time she and her father were
- followed by a UFO on route 116 near Croton Falls New York. She described to
- her mother a large dark craft triangular in shape that paced the car for
- five m inutes above tree top level.
-
- I found this report very interesting since Croton falls is near the
- border of Westchester and Putnam Counties in New York and that loney route
- has been the site of more than one Close Encounter over the past five
- years. I also found it interesting that both mother and daughter had a
- experience with the paranormal at the same time.
-
- There is more to this case than meets the eye. The daughter and father
- accrording to my findings may have had as much as thirty minutes missing
- time. If this is so and if both were abducted then the experience happened
- to father,mother and daughter at t he same time!.
-
- Gail's rash and headaches continued for a few days then disappeared. I
- plan to have Gail undergo hypnosis in the near future by a certified
- psychologist. The story does not end here. Several weeks latter I received
- a call from Gail telling me that it ha ppened again. She said"Those
- creatures came back the same time and they did the same thing"She
- continued"It was as if I was watching a movie of the first time they
- came,they did exactly the same thing.Including having trouble getting into
- the doorway to th e bedroom.My daughter was once again away visiting her
- father."
-
- This case is still under study, but intial findings indicate that both
- Gail and her daughter may have a history of interactions with the
- intelligence behind the UFO phenomenon.
-
-
- The second case I would like to cover took place on July 19th 1984 during
- the peak of activity in the Hudson Valley. the sighting involved a Close
- Encounter, Missing time and abduction. If this was a real expereince then
- the implications are fantastic. In all the cases that I chose to study all
- the witnesses related the truth,or what they thought was the truth.There is
- no doubt in my mind that their stories are not hoaxes since none would have
- nothing to gain by going public with their experiences.
-
- Bill (as we shall refer to him) is a thirty two year old computer
- programmer for a major scientific-engineering corportation that helped
- design the major componets for the new NASA Hubble space telescope. On July
- 19th 1984, at about ten-thirty pm, Bill w as leaving work and heading west
- on Highway I-84. As he approached the Taconic Parkway ramp in Dutchess
- county New York he noticed a very bright almost circular object off to the
- north. The object seemed to be just sitting there in the sky and the lights
- w ere very bright white. As he watched the object it began to move and it
- was at that time he noticed a dark mass behind it which blocked out the
- brighter light polluted night sky. He continued to drive on 84 and soon
- lost sight of the object. He then brushe d the entire incident off his mind
- and thought"Oh it must have been those guys from Stormville flying those
- planes faking a UFO" He then drove on listening to his radio.
-
-
- He then turned off the route 52 exit near Stormville New York and began
- traveling north. The time now was close to eleven PM and the roads were
- quite desolate. He came to a clearing where there was a large field and
- noticed a large dark mass sitting in the field about 200 yards from the
- road. At first he thought that it was a new home,but then he knew there was
- no house there since he went this way just last night and the field was
- empty. As a matter of fact Bill drove this way home and passed the field
- everynight and never saw a house there.
-
- Bill slowed down the car"This thing was huge and dark",he said.The
- strange thing was it was almost the same shape as a big barn,but it seemed
- more tapered toward the sides and very smooth. As he watched, the dark
- object rose into the air without a sound . This really upset Bill since he
- was the only car on the road. The object then rose higher and higher. All
- that Bill could see was the dark mass slowly rising into the air. It was
- now about twice as high as the trees and it moved slowly towards Bill who w
- as still in the car. Bills radio then started to sound "funny" he said that
- the music on the radio sounded like a tape player ,playing music with very
- weak batteries. The voices and the music sounded out of tune.
-
- Bill then put his car into gear and sped away from the object. His heart
- was racing as he drove up the road at about fifty miles and hour.Bill then
- lost sight of the object and continued to drive at a slower rate of
- speed.After several minutes he notice d a glow up ahead over a hill. As he
- approached the crest of the hill there the object was! It was about 300
- feet above the trees and was all lit up with rows of white and yellow
- lights. He then stopped his car and turned off the engine and the lights.
- He was hoping that who ever was in the thing would not see him. The object
- then turned off its lights and he could see this huge dark mass slolwy
- drifting toward him. The object passed right over his car,he could now see
- its shape,it was triangular. Bill told
- me"I don't want to make light of this,but the ship looked like one of the
- star destroyers in Star Was" The underside was the same shape,although I
- did not see the top.
-
- The object passed over Bill, as he looked up he saw circular areas
- underneath the UFO. These circular areas seemed to be like tunnels leading
- into the object. Inside these circular tunnels there was a white
- flashing,similar to the flashing of a white st robe light (we had several
- reports of this white flashing effect from past CE cases in the Hudson
- Valley, also the circular areas have been reported numerous times before).
- Bill told me there was no sound.He estimated its size to be at least 300
- feet from end to end.
-
- Then something strange took place. The last thing Bill remembers is
- watching it go over his car,he did not see it leave. The next thing he
- knows he is at the bottom of the hill 600 feet from the position he was
- when the UFO passed over his parked car. T he object itself was gone. He
- was not sure what time it was when he watched the object passed over his
- car,but he feels it was most likely about eleven-thirty PM. The time was
- now tweleve -fifteen. He started his drive home upset and with a very stiff
- neck .
-
-
- When he arrived home he told his wife about his sighting. She was worried
- to begin with since he was almost and hour late. That night Bill woke up
- yelling in the night"saying get away from me!" His wife said that the
- nightmares continued for a while at least twice a week . Bill told to me
- that the he was not sure of what the nightmare was, but he knew something
- was after him. As time went on Bill was afriad to drive at night alone. He
- even had to insist to his boss not to put him on the evening or night
- shift at his job. Finally Bill wanted to find out more since the experience
- of the UFO and the fearful dreams tormented him. It wasen't until 1987 that
- Bill contacted me and told me his story. Bill Had seen Budd Hopkins(author
- of the book INTRUDERS) on a n umber of shows and asked me if would be
- possible for him to be hypnotized. Hearing Budd on TV talk about the
- abductions made him fearful and he wanted to make sure that this did not
- happen to him. I arranged to have Bill meet with a certified psychologist
- that I occasionally use to perform hypnosis.The following is a brief
- transcript of Bills encounter under hypnosis. He first related seeing the
- object on 84 and then the object in the field and then in the sky over the
- hill, it is then that his voice become s fearful.
-
- Bill" I see it now its that thing! Its coming in my direction!. Iam going
- to turn off my car lights. maybe then wont see me and go away. Its
- huge......Oh my God what is it!. Theres someone standing in the road he is
- now walking toward the car. Who are yo u!...... He's saying something to me
- "don't be fearful we need you...you have been selected". Selected for
- what,get away!. I feel strange like I am floating in the air,its all dark.
- I am now on this table and these guys are all around me,six of them. Two a
- re at my head and two on the sides(two on each side). My legs and arms are
- like dead weights I can't move them.
-
- (Bill is then asked to describe them)
-
- "These guys are small, large heads with round eyes,the eyes are all black
- I can see no pupils in them,they remind me of sharks eyes. They are dressed
- in sometype of black and white skin type suits. I can't see their hands.
- The one at my head is moving so me type of device that looks like a
- portable car vacuum cleaner up and down the left side of my head. It
- vibrates my entire head,it feels like a drill going through my head...
- STOP! it hurts.. He tells me that they are looking for something and found
- it.
-
- I now can feel my legs and arms they are allowing me to get up. They are
- very small only up to the bottom part of my chest (Bill is six foot one
- inch) The others are now over some type of pannel. Two of them are leading
- me by the arms. I asked them where they were from"The one on my right
- leading said"We are from here" I didn't understand the answer. I asked him
- if they planned to let me go. he replied "Yes but we will see you again" He
- told me that they need us because they have trouble living in our wor ld.
- He said they come from a place which is very ugly when compared to our
- world and they would rather live here,but can't. I told him that I would
- remember and tell every one about this. He said I would remember in time
- but there are forces in your own(?) which will stop you from telling
- anyone about this experience." Bill then found himself back in the car.
- Bill now recalls every aspect of the experience. It was a very real
- experience to him.
-
-
- There are about a dozen other cases similar to Bill's and Gail's.In The
- Hudson Valley area.Can all of these people who have had UFO abductions and
- sightings in this part of the country be experiencing sometype of mass
- hysteria? I don't think so. The evid ence indicates that there is some type
- of non-human intelligence at work. If the case histories of the total
- experiences are true then we all better work together to get to the bottom
- of this.
-
- In 1987 Peter Gersten a Peekskill New York attorney put together a new
- organization called CONTACT. Peter who is known for his work in obtaining
- UFO related documents from goverment agencies organized CONTACT in response
- to the great number of Close Enc ounter cases in the New York area. Peter
- had some of the top UFologist flown in from all over the country to meet at
- his Peekskill home. Amoung them were Tracy Torme, Budd Hopkins, Jim Mc
- Cambell and this author. On September 27 CONTACT organized a free UF O
- public conference in Brewster New York. The theme of the conference was to
- explore the adbuction phenomena and the possibility that some people have
- been in contact with a non-human intelligence.Speakers at the conference
- included John Keel. Whitley Stri eber and Budd Hopkins. Over 900 people
- attended the 12 hour conference and 200 filled out forms who felt they had
- a contact experience.
-
- Then during the first several months of 1988 Peter Gersten dissolved
- CONTACT and as of the date of this publication CONTACT is no longer in
- existence. The reasons for this are not clear but Peter still maintains a
- UFO Hotline where callers can get up to date information about UFO
- sightings. The caller can also leave their name and report their own
- sighting on a tape.The UFO hotline number is 914-739-6830.
-
- If the reader would like to reach me to report a sighting or encounter I
- can be reached at PO Box 4218 Greenwich, Ct 06830.
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