‘They’re coming up in the direction of the Hudson Valley, it’s nice up there, you have a clear sky and then you see this thing suddenly zipping through the sky, stopping on an inch, going upright, taking off again, stopping, come back – we are talking incredible speeds, “said Mr. DePerno, a retired police detective, said.
“With the Covid thing, more people are looking up,” he said.
The apparent rise in reports is a relief to some who say they have seen mysterious floating vessels but feared they were alone.
“Because the Pentagon has been excluded, there is more news now, there is more reporting now,” she said. Stringfellow, who goes to Cookie, said. “People are not so afraid to say, ‘Oh, yes, I was in the woods now, or I was at the lake, and this thing came down. ”
But for a 65-year-old retired police officer from New York State Park in Granville, along the state border with Vermont – who asked not to be named because he was concerned about going public with his belief in UFOs and alien life – the full acceptance is still felt. The lingering fear of ridicule could suppress the true number of UFO sightings, he suggested; there can actually be more.
He appealed to city dwellers to stay calm if they saw a UFO, just as he had seen one night about thirty years ago when, according to him, he saw an object floating along the Taconic State Parkway. while completing a patrol shift. And most importantly, he said, people should not allow the fear of being ridiculed to prevent them from reporting what they see.
If enough people report UFOs when they see it, the retired officer added, the world will believe they are telling the truth.