From: titan@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Titanium Knight)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: * Hudson Valley Abductions
Date: 15 Jul 93 22:33:00 GMT
Organization: System 6626 BBS, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada


I am concerned with the way people read the articles I post.  As you
know, there is tons of tabloidish material circulated on AAV.  In no 
way do I want my messages to be taken as tabloid material!  
 
TK =)
 
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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. 
 
 [ not my error above ]
    
  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!. I am 
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. 
  
---  .
Titan|um Knight
Mail: titan@sys6626.bison.mb.ca
The real is what will strike you as really absurd. -- W.H. Auden

