The Mysterious 1969 Berkshire UFO Incident That Rocked A Small Town
NetflixAn artistic depiction of the alleged UFO incident in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
On the night of Sept. 1, 1969, dozens of residents across Berkshire County, Massachusetts claimed to have witnessed a UFO.
“We had listeners call the radio station that evening,” said David Isy, general manager of local radio station WSBS, according to GBH. “They didn’t know it was a UFO at the time. They just called the station and said, ‘Something bizarre is happening.'”
One nine-year-old boy named Thomas Reed even claimed that he and his family were abducted by aliens that night.
According to Reed, he and his family were driving across a covered bridge in Sheffield when a giant disk-shaped object appeared in the sky. He claimed they were then pulled into the spacecraft.
Thomas ReedThomas Reed, the young boy who claimed his family had been abducted by aliens.
“Everything got really calm. It was like being in the middle of a hurricane,” Reed told WAMC in 2015. “There was like a barometric change in pressure. It was just like a dead silence. Then there was an eruption of crickets and frogs and it got really loud and that was it.”
Reed claimed to remember very little from his time onboard the spacecraft, though he said its interior resembled an airplane hangar and that he saw two alien creatures that looked like giant insects. Then, before he knew it, he was back in his family’s car. It was as if the whole experience had never happened — although he noted that some of his family members appeared to have been placed into different seats.
In 2015, the Great Barrington Historical Society recognized the 1969 Berkshire UFO incident as an official historical event. Several residents even erected a monument near the covered bridge where Reed and his family claimed to have been abducted. However, in 2019, the town tore the monument down, claiming it had been built on city property without permission.
In 2020, Netflix featured the 1969 Berkshire UFO incident on the series Unsolved Mysteries, bringing the phenomenon back into the spotlight. Now, a new generation is raising questions about whether this strange story is true — or simply another example of mass hysteria.
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