New England UFOs: Sightings, Abductions, and Other Strange Phenomena

230 Pages·2019·3.069 MB·English

by  Taryn Plumb

NEW ENGLAND UFO
s

NEW ENGLAND UFO
s
Sightings, Abductions, and Other Strange Phenomena
TARYN PLUMB
Guilford, Connecticut
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Names: Plumb, Taryn, 1981– author.
Title: New England UFOs : sightings, abductions, and other strange phenomena
/ Taryn Plumb.
Description: Lanham, MD : Down East Books, [2019] | Includes bibliographical
references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019002603 (print) | LCCN 2019004049 (ebook) | ISBN
9781608936700 (Electronic) | ISBN 9781608936694 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Unidentified flying objects—Sightings and encounters—New
England. | Human-alien encounters—New England. | Alien abduction—New
England.
Classification: LCC TL789.5.N6 (ebook) | LCC TL789.5.N6 .P58 2019 (print) |
DDC 001.9420974—dc23
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“L: Oh, my Carmen, my little Carmen . . . I remember those
sultry nights. And the stars and the cars and the bars and the
barmen . . .
H: And the bars that sparkled and the cars that parkled . . .
And the curs that barkled and the birds that larkled . . .
L: And oh my charmin’, our dreadful fights . . .
H: Such dreadful blights . . .”

C
ontents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
1 Massachusetts—Mysterious History. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A New World Indeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Jaw-Dropping Evidence?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Bizarre Case of the Roving UFO . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Otherworldly Light, Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Baffled in Beverly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Also That Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Bridgewater Triangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
It Smelled from Outer Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Project Blue Book Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Contemporary Case Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
2 Vacationland—It’s Out of This World. . . . . . . . . . . 51
A Different Kind of Experience in the
Allagash Wilderness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Loring—The Notorious Military Encounter. . . . . . . . 57
Cosmic Energy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Project Blue Book Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Post Project Blue Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Other Strange Cases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Crop Circles? In Maine?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Mystifying—Even for a Skeptic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
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CONtENtS
This One Time, on Friday the 13th . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Additional Case Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

3 New Hampshire—The Roswell of the East?. . . . . . . . 89
Exeter Events—“I See It! I See It!” . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Down-to-Earth Aliens? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
The Hill Abduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
The Boomerang Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Confirmed Proof? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Project Blue Book Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Fishing Can Be a Bonding Experience . . . . . . . . . .117
Meanwhile, in More Recent Intergalactic History . . . . .118
4 Vermont—Vast Wilderness, Vast Wonders . . . . . . . .127
The Incident at Buff Ledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
The “Bennington Triangle”? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
There Was Just Something about 1966 . . . . . . . . . . .139
No Slowdown in Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Project Blue Book Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150
5 Connecticut—A Case for Everything . . . . . . . . . . .157
Mather Ship . . . or Mother Ship?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
But First, One Possible Explanation? . . . . . . . . . . .160
Meanwhile, Back to 1954 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Little Green Men? Not These Guys . . . . . . . . . . . .163
“Not Convinced” by Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164
The “Hudson Valley UFO”? But This Is Connecticut . . .166
Maybe They Just Wanted to Fish, Too? . . . . . . . . . .167
Project Blue Book Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168
Deeper in the Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Additional Case Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176
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CONtENtS
6 Rhode Island—Small Wonders . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
The Trudel Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186
The Lifestyles (and Support Groups) of the Rich
and Famous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
The Government Investigates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190
Mysteries Abound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192
Among the Case Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193
Twenty-First Century Mysteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Case Files Continued—High-Tech Times,
High-Tech Encounters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200
Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213
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