UFO in Long Island and Sayville, and extraterrestrial sightings
There are numerous sightings of UFOs in Suffolk County and Nassau County.
There was a even an ET extraterrestrial UFO sited near Fire Island and the Great
South Bay. One was on a 4th of July early evening in the 1970 where a light
green one flew overhead and was seen by thousands.
A local investigative group that has been researching accounts of unidentified
objects on Long Island for the past five years released a report (with photos
and a video tape) that claims an alien space craft crashed into a remote area
of Southaven Park in Shirley just before Thanksgiving in 1992.
The incident happened just after 7:00 P.M. on the night of November 24,
according to John Ford, chairman of the Long Island U.F.O. Network, who said
that it has taken his group six months to do a thorough investigation. It was
just recently, though, that his group was able to acquire the video and the
photos. "We knew that something crashed into the park that night and we have,
bit by bit," said Ford, "been able to finally put the picture together."
Several motorists who were traveling along Sunrise Highway that night,
according to Ford, contacted his organization and described what they thought
was a plane that was going down into the park. And many local residents whose
homes border Southaven report that they heard loud rumbling sounds and saw
strange lights.
"Eyewitness accounts have confirmed that a fire was reported immediately
after," noted Ford. "In addition, the roads around the park were blocked off
to travel by county and park police. The next day, and for a few days after,
the park was closed to the public."
One local resident who lives near the park said that for a five to six day
period after the incident, his house experienced numerous power surges and the
phone would ring strangely without anyone on the other end. "I ride horses in
the park so I'm pretty familiar with the activities there," said the 45-
year-old man who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of his
job ("they would fire me if they thought I believed in flying saucers"). "For
the next few days there were a lot of military helicopters going over the park
--- and I couldn't get in."
Records show that Southaven Park was closed between November 25 and 28.
According to park officials, the park was closed to the general public that
week because it was reserved for duck hunting.
Although some of the area fire departments were initially called, they were
turned back and the fire was handled by the federally controlled Brookhaven
National Laboratory Fire Department, said Ford.
Ford's group finally gained admittance into the park a week later. "We found
an area that was burned out and some trees were bent over," Ford recalled. "A
section looked like it had been plowed over by machinery." But two things were
of particular interest to Ford. "We were getting a higher than normal
radiation reading in the area, higher than regular background radiation, and
the fence line in that area," said Ford, "had no magnetic reading." Ford
explained that metal fences maintain a magnetic charge from the Earth.
"Something had stripped away the magnetic charge of the fence."
Last week Ford received what he had been waiting and hoping for: a video film
of the crash. "I can't say where I got it from because these people who
supplied the tape are afraid that the government will go after them." Because
of the poor quality of the tape, Ford has been working with video specialists
to try and enhance the quality of the picture and to produce stills.
The video, a copy of which was given to South Shore Press, shows people
examining a bright reddish, metallic-type object about four-square feet that
appears to be emitting a white, cloudy gas, and a hissing sound can be heard
--- a sight and sound that resembles dry ice that has been exposed to warmer
temperatures. The next shot shows what appears to be a person trying to lift
up a body near a tree, but the poor quality of the film makes positive
identification impossible. In a final scene, three uniformed men (wearing dark
jackets and rounded caps similar to federal swat teams) are seen placing a
large shiny spread (similar to mylar) over something on the ground. Ford makes
no apologies for the poor quality of the video: "Things are happening fast and
the guy who took the shots doesn't want to be too obvious." And he confesses
that it is hard to get people to come forward and admit what they've seen.
"One of the major problems in researching UFOs is that people are afraid of
sounding like lunatics when describing strange, unexplained events." But an
even greater fear, notes Ford, is the government. "You get involved with
things that the government doesn't want people to know and they can make life
pretty tough for you."
