Posted On: May 25, 2022

The year is 1969, the place, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Multiple witnesses reported seeing brilliant, unnatural lights and other strange occurrences in multiple parts of the area, some claiming that they’ve been abducted and taken aboard a strange aircraft before being released. To this day, their strange and abrupt experiences remain an unexplainable mystery.

It was around dusk on September 1, 1969, when Jane Green was driving from Stockbridge to Great Barrington with her friend, Mary DeGrace. They eventually came across several lights ahead of them on the road. At first, Green assumed they came from police cars, and there might have been an accident up ahead, but she soon couldn’t drive anymore because it was so bright. 

The two women pulled over and got out of the car, astonished by what they were looking at. They saw a huge object floating in front of them, so large that Green couldn’t see the end of it from the left or right. She couldn’t tell what color it was but recalled that it was tall and immense. There were no windows on the object, nor was there any noise coming from it. Within seconds, the mysterious object lifted up, went to the left, lifted up again, and then flew over the nearby mountains.

At around the same time, a ten-year-old boy, Tom Warner, was at his neighbor’s house coloring. As it got dark outside, He heard a voice say: “You need to go home now.” Terrified, he instantly ran out of the house and across the front yard. His neighbor came outside and watched him run in place for about five minutes. When he realized Warner wasn’t moving, he knew something was wrong. He turned to his left and saw a large, flying object drop from the sky. A beam from the aircraft surrounded the child, and almost in an instant, the neighbor realized his friend disappeared.

That same evening, Melanie Kirchdorfer, a twelve-year-old girl, and her family went to a local Dairy Queen to get some ice cream. They then went to Lake Mansfield, which was a mere two miles from where Mary and Tom lived. As her father backed into the parking lot, a brilliant bright aura engulfed their family’s car, causing them all to panic. Surprisingly, her father decided to chase the light, despite Melanie begging him not to. Neither Melanie nor her sister remembered anything after that, but she did recall levitating and then being brought onto a ship, where she was laid out while on it.

Tom Warner remembered seeing Melanie while onboard, and the total fear written across her face, but the girl had no memory of him. She claimed that she was in a room with several other children, and suddenly, they began to disappear one by one. After that, she woke up at the lake by herself. Tom was released in a similar fashion and woke up on his neighbor’s property.

Berkshire historian Gary Leveile looked into these encounters, but couldn’t find any report of UFO sightings in the local newspaper during the month of September. The local editor said he heard about the sightings, but decided against publishing them because he simply thought it was a joke. A police officer was dispatched to look for the UFO after being flooded with reports, but predictably, found nothing.

My Take: When there’s only a single witness in these kinds of cases, it’s easy to dismiss them as fiction, this is different. There were several observers who claimed to have seen this UFO, and their stories corresponded with each other. So, it’s either they’re all lying, although I see no reason why, they’re all crazy, again unlikely, or something truly extraordinary happened that night. You decide.

SOURCES: Unsolved Mysteries Wiki and berkshiresuf

Posted On: May 25, 2022

The year is 1969, the place, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Multiple witnesses reported seeing brilliant, unnatural lights and other strange occurrences in multiple parts of the area, some claiming that they’ve been abducted and taken aboard a strange aircraft before being released. To this day, their strange and abrupt experiences remain an unexplainable mystery.

It was around dusk on September 1, 1969, when Jane Green was driving from Stockbridge to Great Barrington with her friend, Mary DeGrace. They eventually came across several lights ahead of them on the road. At first, Green assumed they came from police cars, and there might have been an accident up ahead, but she soon couldn’t drive anymore because it was so bright. 

The two women pulled over and got out of the car, astonished by what they were looking at. They saw a huge object floating in front of them, so large that Green couldn’t see the end of it from the left or right. She couldn’t tell what color it was but recalled that it was tall and immense. There were no windows on the object, nor was there any noise coming from it. Within seconds, the mysterious object lifted up, went to the left, lifted up again, and then flew over the nearby mountains.

At around the same time, a ten-year-old boy, Tom Warner, was at his neighbor’s house coloring. As it got dark outside, He heard a voice say: “You need to go home now.” Terrified, he instantly ran out of the house and across the front yard. His neighbor came outside and watched him run in place for about five minutes. When he realized Warner wasn’t moving, he knew something was wrong. He turned to his left and saw a large, flying object drop from the sky. A beam from the aircraft surrounded the child, and almost in an instant, the neighbor realized his friend disappeared.

That same evening, Melanie Kirchdorfer, a twelve-year-old girl, and her family went to a local Dairy Queen to get some ice cream. They then went to Lake Mansfield, which was a mere two miles from where Mary and Tom lived. As her father backed into the parking lot, a brilliant bright aura engulfed their family’s car, causing them all to panic. Surprisingly, her father decided to chase the light, despite Melanie begging him not to. Neither Melanie nor her sister remembered anything after that, but she did recall levitating and then being brought onto a ship, where she was laid out while on it.

Tom Warner remembered seeing Melanie while onboard, and the total fear written across her face, but the girl had no memory of him. She claimed that she was in a room with several other children, and suddenly, they began to disappear one by one. After that, she woke up at the lake by herself. Tom was released in a similar fashion and woke up on his neighbor’s property.

Berkshire historian Gary Leveile looked into these encounters, but couldn’t find any report of UFO sightings in the local newspaper during the month of September. The local editor said he heard about the sightings, but decided against publishing them because he simply thought it was a joke. A police officer was dispatched to look for the UFO after being flooded with reports, but predictably, found nothing.

My Take: When there’s only a single witness in these kinds of cases, it’s easy to dismiss them as fiction, this is different. There were several observers who claimed to have seen this UFO, and their stories corresponded with each other. So, it’s either they’re all lying, although I see no reason why, they’re all crazy, again unlikely, or something truly extraordinary happened that night. You decide.

SOURCES: Unsolved Mysteries Wiki and berkshiresuf