1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:04,960 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:08,800 In this episode we're talking about the 1966 Wanaka New Jersey 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:12,240 UFO incident. That's correct, the 1966 Wanaka 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,760 New Jersey UFO incident. Now this was a series of 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:20,720 sightings of UFOs over the Wanaka reservoir in New Jersey 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,640 and they started on January 12th and 1966 and continued for 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:29,730 several months beginning. And that January 12th in 1966, 8 00:00:29,730 --> 00:00:32,409 Patrolman Joe Cisco of the Wannaca Police Department 9 00:00:32,409 --> 00:00:35,890 received a call about a strange light over the reservoir. 10 00:00:36,330 --> 00:00:39,450 He responded to the call and saw a bright light hovering above 11 00:00:39,450 --> 00:00:41,690 the water. The light then darted away at a 12 00:00:41,690 --> 00:00:44,210 high speed. Over the next few weeks there 13 00:00:44,210 --> 00:00:46,370 were numerous more sightings of the UFOs. 14 00:00:46,610 --> 00:00:49,210 Some witnesses reported seeing a single light while others 15 00:00:49,210 --> 00:00:52,410 reported seeing multiple lights. The lights were described as 16 00:00:52,410 --> 00:00:55,050 being different colors, including white, blue and red. 17 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,400 Some witnesses also reported seeing the UFOs performing 18 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,640 unusual maneuvers such as hovering, darting and changing 19 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:05,080 direction. Suddenly on October 10th, 1966, 20 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,880 there was a mass UFO sighting. Hundreds of people reported 21 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,160 seeing the lights over the reservoir. 22 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,160 Some witnesses even reported seeing the UFOs land on the 23 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,840 water. Now the Wanake UFO incident was 24 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,800 investigated or some would say covered up by the Air Force's 25 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,880 Project Blue Book and they came up with the normal excuses for 26 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,720 white people hadn't seen what they reported saying. 27 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,440 I find these cases particularly interesting where these UFOs are 28 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,560 spotted over these man made reservoirs. 29 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:40,000 Now we saw this with a recent case there in Maryland back in 30 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,520 the 90s. Something is going on here with 31 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,680 these things and their need for water. 32 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:50,270 Or possibly there's some sort of mineral deposit right there 33 00:01:50,310 --> 00:01:53,070 under that area, Who knows? But there's definitely a 34 00:01:53,070 --> 00:01:56,710 connection between these large bodies of water, man made 35 00:01:56,790 --> 00:02:01,350 enclosures actually, and these UFOs doing all kinds of weird 36 00:02:01,350 --> 00:02:04,910 things periodically. Now, we'll look at a couple 37 00:02:04,910 --> 00:02:09,070 stories here, but first I want to take a look at an actual 38 00:02:09,070 --> 00:02:14,510 newspaper article, just a short article from back in 1966 when 39 00:02:14,510 --> 00:02:17,310 this happened, just to kind of get an idea of what people were 40 00:02:17,310 --> 00:02:21,870 seeing, feeling and believing in 1966. 41 00:02:22,390 --> 00:02:25,910 Now this newspaper article comes to us from nicap.org. 42 00:02:25,910 --> 00:02:28,150 I'm going to put a link at the Buy Me a Coffee website. 43 00:02:29,190 --> 00:02:33,670 There's just been this really, I think, excellent academic study 44 00:02:33,670 --> 00:02:37,070 done about this UFO, and they've got a bunch of links there and 45 00:02:37,070 --> 00:02:39,830 PDF files you can go back and look at, look at the evidence 46 00:02:40,030 --> 00:02:41,830 about these things. Neat stuff. 47 00:02:42,310 --> 00:02:45,750 Now this one. The article says the Wanakee 48 00:02:46,270 --> 00:02:49,030 Reservoir incident. And they begin by saying on the 49 00:02:49,030 --> 00:02:54,590 night of 11 January 1966, hundreds of residents of 50 00:02:54,590 --> 00:02:58,030 Wanakee, New Jersey reported observing a strange large white 51 00:02:58,030 --> 00:03:01,430 light with which maneuvered over the local reservoir. 52 00:03:01,710 --> 00:03:06,270 Some of the many were Mayor Harry T Wolf, who was alerted by 53 00:03:06,270 --> 00:03:10,630 the police, and Councilman Arthur Barton and Warren 54 00:03:10,630 --> 00:03:13,240 Hagstrom. The object was seen from 55 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,680 Oakland, Ringwood, Patterson, Totowa, Wayne, and Butler. 56 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,840 It was reported to have been seen in Oakland first, then over 57 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:25,960 the reservoir, then above Lakeland Regional High School 58 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,280 and over the Hudaville Sand Pit and Haskell. 59 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,280 It then appeared to move southeast toward Pines Lake and 60 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:37,440 Wayne, where it disappeared. The object was reported as 61 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:42,330 gliding oddly and changing color from white to red to green and 62 00:03:42,330 --> 00:03:45,130 back to white. Some described it as a very 63 00:03:45,130 --> 00:03:48,210 brilliant white light, like a star, except that it didn't 64 00:03:48,210 --> 00:03:50,690 flicker and others said it was Oval. 65 00:03:51,010 --> 00:03:55,530 Civil Defense director Bentley Spencer and Richard Rumen were 66 00:03:55,530 --> 00:03:59,890 also alerted by Reservoir patrolman George Dykeman and 67 00:03:59,890 --> 00:04:03,690 went out to view the object. Spencer went to the top of the 68 00:04:03,690 --> 00:04:08,050 1500 foot long Raymond Dam with reservoir employee Fred Stens, 69 00:04:08,510 --> 00:04:12,190 and from that vantage point he reported later, he observed a 70 00:04:12,190 --> 00:04:16,750 bolt of light was shot down as if attracted to the water. 71 00:04:17,230 --> 00:04:19,550 He said it appeared to be a beam of light emitted from a 72 00:04:19,550 --> 00:04:22,430 porthole. Hundreds of curious were turned 73 00:04:22,430 --> 00:04:25,390 back by reservoir police when they converged on the dam from 74 00:04:25,390 --> 00:04:28,750 both the north and the north to the from both the north and the 75 00:04:28,750 --> 00:04:32,550 South to view the object. Later news clippings carried the 76 00:04:32,550 --> 00:04:36,430 explanation by the Air Force that observers had been watching 77 00:04:36,430 --> 00:04:40,390 an 8F helicopter, but it was later learned that the 78 00:04:40,550 --> 00:04:43,150 helicopter was not in that area at the time. 79 00:04:43,630 --> 00:04:46,430 Also suspect were Venus in the evening sky and Jupiter in the 80 00:04:46,430 --> 00:04:48,390 early morning. However, the appearance of these 81 00:04:48,390 --> 00:04:52,510 two planets does not coincide. It was also reported that 82 00:04:52,510 --> 00:04:55,150 reservoir policeman Charles Theodora spotted an object from 83 00:04:55,150 --> 00:04:58,310 the reservoir station at 2:00 AM on January 12th after he was 84 00:04:58,310 --> 00:05:01,110 notified by the Pompton Lake police that they had been 85 00:05:01,110 --> 00:05:03,670 chasing the object. He said he watched the object 86 00:05:03,670 --> 00:05:06,560 until 4:30 AM along with the other officers. 87 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,640 He said it came over the pumping station, danced from side to 88 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:13,960 side, blinked on and off, or at times ascended at such a fast 89 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,080 rate that he couldn't track it for 2 1/2 hours, after which it 90 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,600 headed into the north and disappeared over the rim of the 91 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,680 dam. Wanaki Reservoir is one of the 92 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,840 vast network of reservoirs in northern New Jersey. 93 00:05:26,260 --> 00:05:31,220 The sighting of AUAO over a freshwater supply is only one of 94 00:05:31,220 --> 00:05:34,940 many documented by APRO in the in the past five years. 95 00:05:35,260 --> 00:05:39,540 Now going back to this source here, this nightcap.org, they've 96 00:05:39,540 --> 00:05:43,300 got some original witness reports. 97 00:05:43,540 --> 00:05:45,820 They've even got copies of the handwritten reports and then 98 00:05:45,820 --> 00:05:48,940 they've got them typed up here, 104 pages if you want to look. 99 00:05:48,940 --> 00:05:51,300 I mean, they've got a bunch of PDF files if you're really 100 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:54,340 interested to go to the Buy me a Coffee website and I'll have the 101 00:05:54,340 --> 00:05:55,820 links there and you can check the site yourself. 102 00:05:56,060 --> 00:05:59,460 Pretty cool stuff. Now this first one says it's 103 00:05:59,460 --> 00:06:04,540 dated October 17th, 1966, no name or address of witnesses 104 00:06:04,540 --> 00:06:07,140 says. And then it has a New Jersey 105 00:06:07,140 --> 00:06:11,980 Wanaque Reservoir. Since February 1966 I have been 106 00:06:11,980 --> 00:06:16,300 reading in newspapers, on TV news reports, also on local TV 107 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:21,040 station WKERE Pompton Lakes about the UFO at Waunakee 108 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,120 Reservoir. Also people and police officers 109 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:28,040 in nearby towns seeing objects in sky heading toward the 110 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:32,000 reservoir. On Monday October 17th, 1966, my 111 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,960 lady friend misses Dorothy Davenport and her 15 year old 112 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,480 son Dennis and myself took a ride up there. 113 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,480 There were about 200 cars parked along the road around the 114 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,360 reservoir. We finally found a place to park 115 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:49,210 and in about one hour just before 9:00 PM a woman comes 116 00:06:49,210 --> 00:06:52,250 down the road and said it's flying down Westbrook Rd. 117 00:06:52,730 --> 00:06:56,250 The car parked ahead of me with the two young women in it and my 118 00:06:56,250 --> 00:06:58,850 car went down Westbrook Rd. About a half a mile. 119 00:06:59,130 --> 00:07:02,890 Then nearly above our heads was the UFO. 120 00:07:03,370 --> 00:07:06,370 We turned off the motor and lights and got out of the car to 121 00:07:06,370 --> 00:07:09,370 see it. It was about as high as a 10 122 00:07:09,370 --> 00:07:13,250 story building and shiny with very bright white lights all 123 00:07:13,250 --> 00:07:17,010 around it and a red and green flashing light in the bottom. 124 00:07:17,410 --> 00:07:22,030 It was huge, no noise. It seemed to stand still but a 125 00:07:22,030 --> 00:07:24,830 slight up and down movement like breathing. 126 00:07:26,150 --> 00:07:28,710 The car ahead of us turned around and headed down the road 127 00:07:28,710 --> 00:07:30,870 to where we were parked in the 1st place. 128 00:07:31,190 --> 00:07:34,590 We saw the object for about 3 minutes and then it went behind 129 00:07:34,590 --> 00:07:38,550 some large cedar trees that were along the road right after the 130 00:07:38,550 --> 00:07:41,630 UFO left. Very slowly a plane crossed the 131 00:07:41,630 --> 00:07:44,350 same path it had been in but was heading in the opposite 132 00:07:44,350 --> 00:07:47,210 direction. The plane was very noisy and 133 00:07:47,210 --> 00:07:48,770 much smaller than the object we saw. 134 00:07:49,890 --> 00:07:52,730 Think about that thing ten stories tall. 135 00:07:52,730 --> 00:07:54,970 It's over 100 feet tall. This thing is massive. 136 00:07:55,330 --> 00:07:59,170 This is not an airplane. It's not swamp gas. 137 00:07:59,490 --> 00:08:04,650 I mean, it's none of these silly insulting excuses that Project 138 00:08:04,650 --> 00:08:06,970 Blue Book or any of the debunkers would have put up 139 00:08:07,970 --> 00:08:09,610 says. We finally turned the car around 140 00:08:09,850 --> 00:08:12,970 and went back to where we had parked in the 1st place at the 141 00:08:12,970 --> 00:08:16,370 intersection of Stone Town Road and Westbrook roads. 142 00:08:17,030 --> 00:08:19,710 The two young women were parked there and said they had left 143 00:08:19,710 --> 00:08:22,950 because they were frightened. The reservoir guard also parked 144 00:08:22,950 --> 00:08:26,470 there and about 15 other cars. Some people that came from 145 00:08:26,470 --> 00:08:29,310 Stonetown Rd. had just seen the object there. 146 00:08:29,630 --> 00:08:33,270 That road is about a mile from where we saw it and figure it 147 00:08:33,270 --> 00:08:35,270 must have gone there after it left us. 148 00:08:35,350 --> 00:08:37,270 Is that is the direction it took off. 149 00:08:37,909 --> 00:08:41,909 The next morning I listened to the local radio station Wker for 150 00:08:41,909 --> 00:08:44,190 some news about the object but heard nothing. 151 00:08:44,350 --> 00:08:47,600 So I called them on the phone and I spoke to Ron Hickman who 152 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,600 was in charge of news. He said he had many calls about 153 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,240 the sighting that night. I wondered why he didn't say 154 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,120 anything on the news that morning about it. 155 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:59,120 It seemed odd is there was a plane in the sky and the pilot 156 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,640 would have to be blind not to have seen the UFO. 157 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,800 He said he'd have to check it, but I never heard anything, only 158 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,440 in newspaper. The next day, the police from 159 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,040 Wannaco asked people to stay away from the reservoir. 160 00:09:11,470 --> 00:09:13,750 They were causing traffic trouble as the roads are very 161 00:09:13,750 --> 00:09:17,070 narrow and dangerous and 60 parking tickets have been given 162 00:09:17,350 --> 00:09:19,030 out. On the night of October 17th, 163 00:09:19,030 --> 00:09:23,710 1966, in another paper, it said stop going to Waunakee Reservoir 164 00:09:23,910 --> 00:09:26,190 looking for flying saucers, they'll come to you. 165 00:09:26,750 --> 00:09:29,350 Just last night there was an accident up there. 166 00:09:29,350 --> 00:09:32,550 A car went there, the guard, the guard said and landed in the 167 00:09:32,550 --> 00:09:34,750 water. People are still going up to 168 00:09:34,750 --> 00:09:38,390 look, especially on a clear story night as it was when we 169 00:09:38,390 --> 00:09:40,920 were there. I never really believed in UFOs 170 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,000 before, but what I saw was a solid object. 171 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,080 If I was alone that night, I never would say anything about 172 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:49,320 it. But there was five of us and 173 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:53,160 then later the people who saw it on Stoney Lemon Rd. must have 174 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,240 numbered at least 25 to 30 people. 175 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,480 I really don't care if anyone believes me or not, but if 176 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,880 someone tells me they've seen one, then I say I have. 177 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,920 There is ATV mobile truck up there this way. 178 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,100 From what station? I don't know and it is watching 179 00:10:08,100 --> 00:10:09,980 for a sighting report to check on it. 180 00:10:10,420 --> 00:10:13,060 I have noticed there's no more reports in the radio about the 181 00:10:13,060 --> 00:10:16,100 objects but people are still going there and to look they 182 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:19,700 could be still seeing them and the radio and newspaper are 183 00:10:19,700 --> 00:10:22,420 saying nothing. There was an article in life 184 00:10:22,420 --> 00:10:26,220 April 1st 1966 about sightings at Wanaki Reservoir in March 185 00:10:26,220 --> 00:10:30,100 1966 on Jim Jason's news in New York and they showed the 186 00:10:30,100 --> 00:10:33,340 reservoir scene and mayor and local news man and reservoir 187 00:10:33,340 --> 00:10:36,660 guard at reservoir looking on the scene of the sighting. 188 00:10:37,310 --> 00:10:41,350 They had UFO over reservoir and a beam of light came out the 189 00:10:41,350 --> 00:10:44,910 bottom of it and froze the thick ice on the water. 190 00:10:45,710 --> 00:10:48,590 People who have reported the object coming out of the water. 191 00:10:48,590 --> 00:10:52,510 The Air Force was in Waukee in March 1966 to question the 192 00:10:52,510 --> 00:10:56,630 people who had seen the object and the light melting the ice. 193 00:10:57,110 --> 00:11:00,870 Mayor of Waukee and his council were having a town meeting when 194 00:11:00,870 --> 00:11:04,190 it was reported, and they and Patterson area newspaperman 195 00:11:04,430 --> 00:11:09,700 Howard Ball went to the scene. A man and a nearby convent also 196 00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:14,540 saw it from his window. Since February 1966 I have been 197 00:11:14,540 --> 00:11:18,260 reading in newspapers, on TV news reports, also on local 198 00:11:18,260 --> 00:11:22,260 radio station Wker Pompton Lake, Sabat UFOs at Wanake Reservoir. 199 00:11:22,620 --> 00:11:26,900 Also people and police officers in nearby towns seeing objects 200 00:11:26,900 --> 00:11:29,020 in the sky heading toward the reservoir. 201 00:11:30,460 --> 00:11:31,620 And then we have a second report. 202 00:11:31,620 --> 00:11:36,370 Here they show typewritten. It says October 25th, 1966. 203 00:11:36,370 --> 00:11:39,330 Doctor Paganel on Friday evening, October 21st at about 204 00:11:39,330 --> 00:11:43,290 11:10 PMI was on my way home for my job in Pompton Lakes. 205 00:11:43,730 --> 00:11:48,450 I live in the Mount Glen Lakes section of West Milford. 206 00:11:48,810 --> 00:11:51,370 There is a Six Mile stretch of deserted Rd. 207 00:11:51,530 --> 00:11:55,010 Newark Watershed property from Bloomingdale into West Milford. 208 00:11:55,410 --> 00:11:59,330 I was traveling along the only car in the road when I spotted a 209 00:11:59,330 --> 00:12:02,810 bright white light in the sky just to the right of the car. 210 00:12:03,510 --> 00:12:05,910 Its approximate altitude was that of a private plane. 211 00:12:06,270 --> 00:12:09,230 It was the size of an office or school clock. 212 00:12:09,670 --> 00:12:13,390 When I spotted it, I slowed down and then it began making huge 213 00:12:13,390 --> 00:12:17,950 circles around the car. I kept on moving and so did this 214 00:12:17,950 --> 00:12:23,110 light, but always in a circular motion around my car about two 215 00:12:23,110 --> 00:12:26,830 miles from my home. It picked up speed and climbed 216 00:12:26,830 --> 00:12:30,430 to the altitude of a commercial airliner as I turned into the 217 00:12:30,430 --> 00:12:34,550 street where I live. It too turned, circled around my 218 00:12:34,550 --> 00:12:36,350 house and then proceeded to the lake. 219 00:12:36,870 --> 00:12:39,910 I went into the house to call my husband to the window to verify 220 00:12:39,910 --> 00:12:44,350 what I saw, but this time it by this time it had turned red and 221 00:12:44,350 --> 00:12:47,190 was hovering over the lake. At that time we heard a jet 222 00:12:47,190 --> 00:12:50,150 plane approaching and the light just vanished. 223 00:12:50,790 --> 00:12:53,910 I then called a friend who lives nearby and asked her if she saw 224 00:12:53,950 --> 00:12:56,550 anything of this and she confirmed what my husband and I 225 00:12:56,550 --> 00:12:59,030 saw. A few months ago she contacted 226 00:12:59,030 --> 00:13:02,170 you about numerous sightings in our area, which is only a few 227 00:13:02,170 --> 00:13:03,650 miles from the Waunakee Reservoir. 228 00:13:04,170 --> 00:13:06,610 Rather than notify our local police, who tend to make a 229 00:13:06,610 --> 00:13:10,130 mockery of these sightings, I suggested contacting you and 230 00:13:10,130 --> 00:13:13,890 misses Mercurio gave me your address, it says. 231 00:13:13,890 --> 00:13:18,730 I know of your work with NICAP and I hope this information will 232 00:13:18,730 --> 00:13:21,090 be of some use to you. Please contact me if there's 233 00:13:21,090 --> 00:13:24,650 anything else you wish to know. This was not my first sighting, 234 00:13:25,010 --> 00:13:28,130 nor my last, I hope. Sincerely, Carol Free Meyer, 235 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:31,000 this is Roger D Freemeyer. Fascinating stuff. 236 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,680 I just sent another one of these cool sightings. 237 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,480 They've got more on here. For the sake of time, I'm going 238 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,360 to go ahead and go to this article. 239 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:43,040 That's that I found talking about the instant kind of 240 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:46,760 describing what happened. This next article comes from 241 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:52,120 courierpostonline.com. The title is Weird New Jersey 242 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:56,710 UFOs over 1K and 66. And it says it was published 243 00:13:56,710 --> 00:13:59,550 February 6th, 2016. So it's been a while ago, but I 244 00:13:59,550 --> 00:14:01,390 think it's a decent enough article. 245 00:14:01,710 --> 00:14:05,910 We've read the eyewitness reports from a couple people 246 00:14:06,150 --> 00:14:08,470 that were there and, you know, right after they saw these 247 00:14:08,470 --> 00:14:11,550 things and now we can kind of step back a little bit and see, 248 00:14:12,030 --> 00:14:13,550 you know, what was going on there. 249 00:14:13,550 --> 00:14:16,670 Kind of from big picture. It says 50 years ago this month, 250 00:14:16,670 --> 00:14:20,430 January 11th, 1966, started like any other midwinter day in the 251 00:14:20,430 --> 00:14:22,590 small suburban town of Waunakee, New Jersey. 252 00:14:23,100 --> 00:14:25,940 The air was clear and cold in residence of the Passaic County 253 00:14:26,140 --> 00:14:28,820 borough went about their usual daily routines. 254 00:14:29,140 --> 00:14:32,660 Little did they know that before the day was over, something 255 00:14:32,660 --> 00:14:36,100 would happen, something fantastic and unexplainable that 256 00:14:36,100 --> 00:14:38,420 would change the lives of many of the townsfolk forever. 257 00:14:38,820 --> 00:14:41,420 It all started in the early evening of that Tuesday night. 258 00:14:41,620 --> 00:14:45,100 It was about 6:30 PM, and the winter sun was already long 259 00:14:45,100 --> 00:14:47,300 gone. Over the western horizon, past 260 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:51,140 the great Wanaki Reservoir and behind the darkened Rampopo 261 00:14:51,140 --> 00:14:54,880 Mountain range, Wanaque patrolman Joseph Cisco was in 262 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:57,840 his cruiser when a call from Pompton Lakes dispatcher came 263 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,800 over his police radio. It was a report of a glowing 264 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,920 light, possibly a fire. Then, as if right out of a 265 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,080 sci-fi movie, Cisco heard the words. 266 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,880 People in Oakland, Ringwood, Patterson, Totawa and Butler 267 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,680 claim there's a flying saucer over the Wanaque quote. 268 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,680 I pulled into the sand pit and open area to get my bearings, 269 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,400 Cisco recalls. There was a light that looked 270 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:23,170 bigger than any of the stars, about the size of a softball or 271 00:15:23,170 --> 00:15:25,730 volleyball. It was a pulsating white 272 00:15:25,730 --> 00:15:27,650 stationary light changing to red. 273 00:15:28,330 --> 00:15:30,890 It stayed in the air. There was no noise. 274 00:15:31,210 --> 00:15:33,170 I was trying to figure out what it was. 275 00:15:33,770 --> 00:15:37,530 Wannaki, Mayor Harry T Wolf, Councilman Warren Hagstrom and 276 00:15:37,530 --> 00:15:40,930 Arthur Barton, and the mayor's 14 year old son Billy were on 277 00:15:40,930 --> 00:15:44,130 their way to oversee the burning of the Burl's Christmas trees 278 00:15:44,130 --> 00:15:47,170 when they heard the reports that something very white, very 279 00:15:47,170 --> 00:15:51,100 bright, and much bigger than a star was hovering over the wonky 280 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:53,540 reservoir. They decided to pull into a sand 281 00:15:53,540 --> 00:15:57,500 pit near the Raymond Dam at the Head Works to meet Officer Cisco 282 00:15:57,860 --> 00:15:59,540 and get a better look at the thing. 283 00:15:59,860 --> 00:16:02,820 The Mirror's son Billy spotted the object at once, flying low 284 00:16:02,820 --> 00:16:06,660 and gliding oddly over the vast frozen lake like a huge star. 285 00:16:07,180 --> 00:16:10,740 But it didn't flicker, Billy told reporters the next day. 286 00:16:10,980 --> 00:16:14,980 It was just a continuous light that changed from white to red 287 00:16:15,020 --> 00:16:18,630 to green and back to white. The phenomenon was terribly 288 00:16:18,630 --> 00:16:20,390 strange, Merrill Wolf would later recall. 289 00:16:20,590 --> 00:16:24,350 He described the shape of the unidentified object as Oval and 290 00:16:24,350 --> 00:16:27,910 estimated it to be between 2:00 and 9:00 feet in diameter. 291 00:16:28,350 --> 00:16:31,670 The next thing that offers that Officer Cisco remembers is his 292 00:16:31,670 --> 00:16:35,630 patrol cars radio going bananas as calls from all over 20 mile 293 00:16:35,630 --> 00:16:37,750 radius flooded into the police headquarters. 294 00:16:38,190 --> 00:16:42,270 Cisco Radio Officer George Dykeman was on patrol nearby. 295 00:16:42,790 --> 00:16:45,870 Two teenagers came running up his patrol car, frantically 296 00:16:45,870 --> 00:16:47,630 pointing at the sky and shouting. 297 00:16:47,630 --> 00:16:50,950 Look, look at that moment, Wannaki Civil Defense Director 298 00:16:50,950 --> 00:16:53,910 Bentley Spencer drove up with CD member Richard Rumen. 299 00:16:54,190 --> 00:16:57,150 The police radios are all jammed up, Spencer said excitingly. 300 00:16:57,710 --> 00:17:00,790 Back at the sand pit, Joseph Cisco's radio crackled as 301 00:17:00,790 --> 00:17:03,110 another unbelievable message came across airwaves. 302 00:17:03,390 --> 00:17:06,790 Something's burning a hole in the ice, something with a bright 303 00:17:06,790 --> 00:17:08,829 light on it going up and going down. 304 00:17:09,290 --> 00:17:11,250 Then another transmission fought its way through the den. 305 00:17:11,250 --> 00:17:13,170 Oh boy. Something just landed in front 306 00:17:13,170 --> 00:17:15,530 of the dam. Spencer and Reservoir employee 307 00:17:15,609 --> 00:17:18,770 Fred Steins raced to the top of the 1500 foot long Raymond Dam, 308 00:17:18,770 --> 00:17:21,810 where they described seeing a bolt of light shoot down as if 309 00:17:21,810 --> 00:17:24,890 attracted to the water, like a beam emitted from a porthole. 310 00:17:25,210 --> 00:17:28,329 According to John Shuttle, a town Councilman who witnessed EU 311 00:17:28,329 --> 00:17:31,370 FOI saw it. A brilliant white object, two to 312 00:17:31,370 --> 00:17:32,930 three feet across. And it's collar. 313 00:17:33,290 --> 00:17:34,650 No, not collar. Shade. 314 00:17:34,650 --> 00:17:38,720 It kept changing. Wow, so this thing almost sounds 315 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,760 like a USO to me. Where it's coming into this 316 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:42,520 water or using the water for something. 317 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,480 Maybe the water hasn't got special quality to it, I don't 318 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:46,920 know. And this is January 12th, 1966. 319 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:48,840 One day after the initial sightings of the UFO. 320 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,600 Patrolman Jack Wardlow reported seeing a bright white disc 321 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,920 floating in the vicinity of his home in the stone town section 322 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:56,760 of Wanaki, just West of the reservoir. 323 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,760 It seemed like only a block away, above the Lily Mountain, 324 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:01,640 maybe 1000 feet up, Wardlow said. 325 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:04,920 Don't ask me what it was, but I do know it wasn't any 326 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:08,420 helicopter, plane or comment. It shot laterally right and 327 00:18:08,420 --> 00:18:11,020 left. It stopped, it moved up straight 328 00:18:11,020 --> 00:18:13,260 and then it moved down and disappeared in the direction of 329 00:18:13,260 --> 00:18:15,940 Ringwood to the north. Word Lord describe the object is 330 00:18:15,940 --> 00:18:19,500 definitely disk shaped and at certain angles egg shape. 331 00:18:19,820 --> 00:18:21,900 So see we're getting a couple different descriptions of this 332 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:23,180 thing. One of like this, almost like a 333 00:18:23,180 --> 00:18:26,780 giant cube, maybe 100 foot tall, and this thing is being egg 334 00:18:26,780 --> 00:18:32,230 shaped or flying saucer shaped. Sergeant Davis Cisco said that 335 00:18:32,230 --> 00:18:35,830 he was on patrol at about 6:30 that evening when the UFO 336 00:18:35,830 --> 00:18:39,830 noiselessly hovered into view. It glided then streaked faster 337 00:18:39,830 --> 00:18:42,470 than the jet, he told reporters, and when it rose, it went 338 00:18:42,470 --> 00:18:45,230 straight up. After the January 1966 339 00:18:45,230 --> 00:18:48,470 sightings, radar was installed atop the Reservoir Dam October 340 00:18:48,470 --> 00:18:51,430 10th, 1966. Whatever it was that visited the 341 00:18:51,430 --> 00:18:54,750 skies over Wannaca Reservoir in January reappeared for its most 342 00:18:54,750 --> 00:18:58,590 fantastic showing showing to date in October. 343 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:02,000 The first reported sighting of it came shortly after 9:00 PM on 344 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,080 the evening of Monday the 10th, when Robert J Gordon of Pompton 345 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,400 Lakes and his wife Betty saw what they described as a single 346 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,080 saucer shaped object about the size of an automobile, glowing 347 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,360 with a white brilliance. At first I thought it was a * 348 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:17,760 Betty Gordon McCall, but it seemed to be moving. 349 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:21,280 It had a definite pattern. It would move to the left of the 350 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:23,560 tower and then move back directly over the tower. 351 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,310 I'm quite sure it was not a star or planet one, OK? 352 00:19:27,310 --> 00:19:30,110 Police Sergeant Ben Thompson was driving his patrol call South of 353 00:19:30,110 --> 00:19:33,190 the reservoir of the time. Thompson looked out of his car 354 00:19:33,190 --> 00:19:35,910 and, to his astonishment, saw the UFO heading right toward 355 00:19:35,910 --> 00:19:38,390 him. I saw the object coming at me, 356 00:19:38,390 --> 00:19:40,910 he said. There was an extremely bright 357 00:19:40,910 --> 00:19:43,870 light. It was a bright white light, 358 00:19:43,910 --> 00:19:46,590 bright like when a light bulb is about to blow. 359 00:19:46,670 --> 00:19:49,910 It was very low. It appeared to be about 75 feet 360 00:19:49,950 --> 00:19:53,190 over the mountain at this point. Other motorists along Westbrook 361 00:19:53,190 --> 00:19:54,790 Rd. Also began to notice a strange 362 00:19:54,790 --> 00:19:57,270 light hovering in the sky and slowed their cars to get a 363 00:19:57,270 --> 00:20:01,710 better look at it. 13 years after the 1966 UFO sightings at 364 00:20:01,710 --> 00:20:04,910 the Waunakee Reservoir, the nonprofit organization Vestigia, 365 00:20:05,070 --> 00:20:08,310 which was based in Byram, prepared a detailed study of the 366 00:20:08,310 --> 00:20:09,910 strange lights that were witnessed. 367 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:12,880 Bastigia, an organization that seeks to provide plausible 368 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,040 scientific explanations for unexplained phenomena, came to 369 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,120 the conclusion that the glowing lights that were seen over 1K by 370 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:22,160 hundreds of people, or the result of a seismic pressure 371 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:26,440 from the nearby Ramapo fall. Well, I'm sorry to tell you 372 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,840 this, but that's about the most stupid thing I've heard all day. 373 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:32,600 And we've just heard multiple people, reliable witnesses tell 374 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,800 us that they saw these giant flying saucer, giant egg shaped 375 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,430 thing. Giant looks like a ten story 376 00:20:38,430 --> 00:20:42,950 tall building flying over this, over this reservoir, and I don't 377 00:20:42,950 --> 00:20:46,270 need to have some experts come in and tell me that what these 378 00:20:46,270 --> 00:20:51,710 people are reported seeing was just a phenomenon created by 379 00:20:52,710 --> 00:20:55,270 some kind of an earthquake over this reservoir. 380 00:20:55,270 --> 00:20:58,590 That is absolutely stupid. Then it goes on, it says. 381 00:20:58,590 --> 00:21:01,390 Mystika's theories, however, did little to dissuade eyewitnesses 382 00:21:01,390 --> 00:21:05,010 from their belief that what they had seen was indeed a UFO. 383 00:21:05,210 --> 00:21:08,650 Wannaca officers Jack Wardlow and Chuck Fiora rejected the 384 00:21:08,650 --> 00:21:11,370 Army's initial explanations of the mysterious lights as merely 385 00:21:11,530 --> 00:21:15,090 swamp gas or a helicopter, and did likewise with festigious 386 00:21:15,090 --> 00:21:17,250 contention. The Pentagon offered its own 387 00:21:17,250 --> 00:21:19,170 scenario. What hundreds of people had 388 00:21:19,170 --> 00:21:21,890 witnessed in the skies over the reservoir that January was 389 00:21:21,890 --> 00:21:25,330 nothing more than the planets Venus and Jupiter in a rare 390 00:21:25,330 --> 00:21:28,230 celestial alignment. Wow. 391 00:21:28,310 --> 00:21:31,230 So there you go. I mean, you have these fantastic 392 00:21:31,230 --> 00:21:33,950 witnesses. Hundreds of people see multiple 393 00:21:33,950 --> 00:21:39,110 UFOs from giant flying saucers. That what looks like a 10 foot 394 00:21:39,110 --> 00:21:42,270 tall, excuse me? A 10 story tall object in the 395 00:21:42,270 --> 00:21:46,070 sky hovering over the lake, beaming lights down into the 396 00:21:46,070 --> 00:21:50,270 frozen water melting the ice. These detailed fantastic 397 00:21:50,750 --> 00:21:53,710 eyewitness accounts by police officers, the mayor, City 398 00:21:53,710 --> 00:21:56,550 Council, all the people that should be considered reliable 399 00:21:56,550 --> 00:21:59,530 witnesses. And then a parallel narrative 400 00:21:59,530 --> 00:22:02,490 starts, well, one by Project Blue Book, shortly after it 401 00:22:02,490 --> 00:22:04,010 happened. We can expect the lies to come 402 00:22:04,010 --> 00:22:05,730 from the government. And then the script called 403 00:22:05,730 --> 00:22:09,410 Bastigia, which I really haven't done any kind of investigation 404 00:22:09,410 --> 00:22:10,970 into. But thirteen years later, they 405 00:22:10,970 --> 00:22:13,050 tried to develop another parallel narrative. 406 00:22:13,490 --> 00:22:16,570 But the eyewitnesses are there and they're saying, no, that's 407 00:22:16,570 --> 00:22:19,730 not what happened. And luckily somebody has 408 00:22:20,210 --> 00:22:23,270 recorded these eyewitness accounts first hand and posted 409 00:22:23,270 --> 00:22:24,870 them online. And like I said, the links here, 410 00:22:24,870 --> 00:22:26,470 buy me a coffee, go through and read these. 411 00:22:26,470 --> 00:22:28,870 There's all these different people have have put pen to 412 00:22:28,870 --> 00:22:31,470 paper and said this is what happened, this is what I saw. 413 00:22:32,030 --> 00:22:35,310 So let me ask you, are we supposed to believe the 414 00:22:35,310 --> 00:22:38,910 authorities and the deep bunkers or are we supposed to believe 415 00:22:38,910 --> 00:22:42,230 the accounts of the people that were actually there in 1966 in 416 00:22:42,230 --> 00:22:46,550 New Jersey and saw these massive UFOs and these and these 417 00:22:46,550 --> 00:22:49,590 unbelievable maneuvers they were doing in the sky? 418 00:22:49,830 --> 00:22:52,890 Until next time, this is UFO Warning Over now.