18 October 1976
(St. Petersburg
Times, Florida)
Quote from the article:
“Shaped like two enormous upside-down
soup bowls, the objects hovered in the sky just over a dip in the Ramapo
mountain range.
(Warren) BERBIT (Suffern lawyer), ALONG with
policemen, businessmen, school teachers, housewives and others, say they have
seen strange objects recently in the skies over Rockland and Putnam Counties.
Several UFOs have been reported over
Stony Point, just across the Hudson River from
the Indian Point nuclear reactors. Others have been spotted over plants in Tomkins
Cove and Haverstraw.
(Dan) Cetrone, publisher of The
Rockland County Almanac, lives in a white house at the top of Buckberg Mountain Road.
His terrace commands a view of the Hudson, and both he and his wife, Barbara,
say they have observed several cylindrical flying objects with red, green and
white flashing lights, which hover a while, then turn sharply and disappear.
THE UFO’S, Cetrone theorized, are
probably drawn to the area by the nuclear plants. They are part of a cycle of
UFO appearances that peaks every 61 months, he said.
Reports of possible sightings in the county reached a peak of about
100 during a three-week period around the end of August. Since the Air Force
discontinued collecting information about UFO sightings in 1969, most residents
make their reports to the local police.
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