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You have a warning hand. This episode were talking about
this Sheffield Bridge UFO. That's correct.
The Sheffield Bridge UFO. This is a kind of a famous
encounter has gotten a lot of coverage over the years and
pretty complex story, but I really like this article I found
on it. This is from 9news.com dated
July 20th, 2020. The title says the UFO encounter
the tour us. Unity Parts written by
raffaella. See rossella, it says, as a u.s.
family were driving home on a still, warm evening, 50 years
ago, they had no idea their lives were about to be changed
Forever on September 1st, 1969. The Reed family claimed.
They had an encounter with an unidentified flying object.
As they took a shortcut home over the Sheffield bridge in
Massachusetts around 8:30, p.m. Tom Reed, who was nine at the
time. Still remembers what he saw and
Vivid. Detail says his mother, Nancy
Reid was driving and his grandmother was in the passenger
seat. He told nine news.com.au next to
him was his younger brother Matthew, the pair have been
sharing Lolly's, there was light coming through the bottom Boards
of the bridge. He said as we left the bridge
and came out on the other side we saw what looked like a
self-contained sphere of white light and is it rose up maybe
two stories. There was some rods of light,
they fired several thin. Directional laser, like poles of
light, from one side to the other. so you have these people,
the supports us 50 years ago but have been clear Back in 1970, I
guess they were Crossing this right quaint old Covered Bridge.
They come out in the other side of it and apparently this thing
is so bright. This UFO that's not only, you
know, emitting this blazing blazing light in front of them
but it's permeating up through the floorboards of the bridge.
Says his mother Nancy Reid was driving, his grandmother was in
the passenger seat. He told news next to him, was
his young brother Matthew, the pair had been sharing Lolly's,
there was a light coming through the bottom Boards of the bridge.
He said, as we left the bridge and came out the other side.
We saw look like you soft contains fear of white light as
it rose up. Maybe two stories.
So I'm assuming he's saying that the spirit self just levitated
up off the ground. There was some rods of light
they fired, several thin directional, laser-like pulls of
light from one side to the other, the light, then retracted
into it and the spear slowly moved around the line of trees
going in the same direction. We were my brother then happened
to notice a second round, sphere off to the right of the car that
looked like it was sitting under water.
At that point, everything felt odd to us.
It was almost like being underwater and as the car slowed
you know the tapping sound you get from being in a pool, the
sound was Stones tapping under the fender of the car.
Mr. Reid said everything then became still and quiet and
that's when the family claims they saw it a turtle shell
shaped disc hovering over the field to their left.
The three objects, two spheres of light, and this shell made a
triangle with the Reeds car. Bang in the middle of it.
The car suddenly exploded with light mr.
Reid said almost like flood lights have been shown on it.
Now if you a lot of people have had these Close Encounters close
sightings however you want to say, you know, this is a common
thing where people talk about the bright light involved, you
know, this intense light that it's like there's no Shadows the
light just saturate you everything.
It's just almost like, stage lights is intense, intense
bright light, often times people describe it as different colors,
maybe, white, blue, whatever. But it's always this extremely
intense light that just seems To light up everything in that area
whatever this thing is looking at whatever studying it's almost
like the light takes on a life of its own.
It says a car suddenly explode with light mr.
Reid said almost like flood lights, had been shown on it.
He exclaimed to 9news.com a you everything was illuminated and
glaring detail. I could coffin.
He annoys you repped it as crickets and frogs burst into
the Frantic activity on the brakes.
On the banks of the Housatonic River.
That's a little bit different. Usually, when people talk about
these things, they talked about how quiet it was that the
animals weren't making any kind of noise that bird song.
Quit the frogs, the frogs weren't croaking, but they had a
kind of exact opposite experience.
He says that was the last thing, mr.
Reading his family. Remember for three hours bar,
vague visions of what? Resembled an airplane, Hangar
describing it as a large open area.
That was much larger than the craft was itself.
When the family finally came to Nancy Reid, and her mother had
mysteriously switched positions. In the car, the Cartesian was
off and the lights were off mr. Reid said.
Sounds like a classic abduction. Nobody were taken to the
Mothership, whatever they come back.
People are put back in the car, the wrong way.
Sometimes people have the wrong clothes on.
We've also seen this with A lot of the cases that they applied
its talks about where they find these, the bodies of these poor
missing people, and they come back and they find him in there
in there. Dressed in correctly pants on
backwards shoes on the wrong feet.
That's where stuff is almost like Something tried to redress
him, but didn't know how to do it, right?
It says that night, across Brooks shall County about 40
residents, from multiple towns reported seeing a UFO But
instead of bringing the community together at toward a
part, of course, you know, you're looking at what 1970.
I mean, people really weren't ready to deal with this stuff.
It says the sightings are the focus of an episode from Netflix
is new series Unsolved Mysteries, which details the
Encounters of Tommy Warner Melanie crypto for Jane green
and the Reed family, mr. Reid told 9news.com, he never
felt like he belonged in the small town.
The family came from New York City and this is kind of a sad
situation. You have these Outsiders who
claim that they've been abducted by aliens.
Alien so you can imagine what that did for the reputations and
how that they were accepted or not accepted in that town.
Mr. Reed was the most vocal the family after the encounter, and
claimed he had seen UFOs several times to Sheffield throughout
the 1960s. The nine-year-old said he
experienced rampant bullying for speaking about his experience, I
just can't imagine how hard it would have been if our
nine-year-old kid to have never won gone.
Fit abduction. Number two, tried to talk about
it and then just have been mercilessly harassed about it.
The school undoubtedly, I'm imagining.
This family was also a rest at one point mr.
Reid said they were regularly fall.
A white pickup truck. There were a lot of fights.
He said the cops had to eat in our diner to keep the peace at
divided the community. We went through a lot there, we
went through a lot, there was a lot of struggles, the pain and
hardship came from some of the locals when I saw what I saw
changed my life. I used to be an altar boy.
I don't have any faith anymore. It's gone.
You start to think, why are we here?
And what? All this means, it's sad that
somebody would lose your faith over something like that because
The Bible has a lot to say about what we would call UFOs.
You know principalities of Darkness.
You know what kind of angelic beings are not Angelic beings
inhabit, the heavens. So I just think it's one of
these things where we have to compartmentalize it.
We don't we have to put these into the category of don't know
and that shouldn't change. How we approach life in general?
I mean, this is just it's a mystery of life, there's lots of
mysteries to life and it just you happen to witness one.
Well, then you happen. You happen to be confronted with
a mystery to life. Just like we're confronted with
tragedy at work and were confronted when sometimes people
win the lottery. Does that mean they deserve it?
Probably not. Sometimes you just happens
sometimes just people just happen to see a UFO, there's
nothing to get. I don't think there's a reason
to get personally distraught about it.
Like I said, it's just one of those mysteries of life that you
happen to encounter. And, you know, you could almost
look at it as as a unique experience, whether good or bad,
it's definitely unique. It says, in February 2015, the
Great Barrington Historical Society Museum confirmed the
read siding and officially inducted the case in the u.s.
history in doing. So mr.
Reed, who had set a polygraph and past was finally been
negated. That's interesting.
What concrete Monument was erected outside their bridge to
commemorate their sighting? Mr. Reed now manages the Tom
Reed UFO, Monument Park. That's a feat, he couldn't do
without the support of sponsors. Something he is extremely
grateful for and then it's got a little, a little picture here,
the little more. All I've got.
It says, do I think there was an awful presence that cost us to
be removed the car? Absolutely 100%.
He said, I can tell you, I saw something extraordinary and we
were surrounded, the The Spheres were certainly working in
conjunction with the craft and both of these spheres were over
water. Do I think there was a military
government aspect also involved more than likely now when people
say that sort of thing often think that they're just falling
victim to the normalcy bias, they have to have something in
there and they're known reality to Anchor.
Their experience, to probably the most healthy way to treat
these. As like I said, just understand
that. It's just one of these mysteries
of life we're trying to unmask it, but don't there's no reason
to create more anxiety. Be in oneself by trying to
explain it away immediately. All you can do is just say I saw
it, they experience this, it's kind of simple as that.
It's maybe it's kind of a Zen approach, but I think that's
probably the most healthy way to approach it to begin with
without getting too far off in the weeds, or really causing the
person to say like he said, lose our faith or be ostracized from
the community or whatever. He says, do I think do I think
there was also a military government aspect on also
involved more than likely at the end of the day.
Do aliens know how to shut off your car, how one?
Of course they would if they made it here from across the
Galaxy or across the universe or from some other dimension, I'm
shutting off a car would be the least of their worries.
However it could just be a byproduct of whatever kind of
electromagnetic energy. This things are putting off.
However, mr. Reid said he is open.
The fact that there could be an environmental explanation, I
don't know hallucinogens, they make the Magnesium that was
mined for the atom bomb in World War, Two was mined, three to
five miles from our restaurant over Connecticut.
He said, in Connecticut, there was also a lot of military.
We also had command Aerospace electric vote, which made the
nuclear submarines General Electric You had some of the
most polluted water and the entire country and the Hue and
the Housatonic River, it's so bad.
You can't eat fish out of it. There is toxic waste of that
Waterway. Who knows what happened?
Well, I think maybe the connecting dots that aren't
there. It's got some great
illustrations on the, on the article here.
It's got some pictures of the old covered bridge and I pretty
good eyewitness report and then got some picture of the guy
who's Just a little guy, nine years old.
Imagine that, just the trauma being in an alien abductee, and
then and, you know, I like 1970 and then having to face those
kids at school and just being, you know, totally shunned and
ridicule on top of it. Yeah, they've got, they've got a
couple of the pieces of stuff here.
They're talking about in that in an interview with the fellow,
definitely check it out. 9news.com, like I said this is
written a couple years ago back in The Dateline of this is July
20th 2020. The UFO encounter that tore a
u.s. community apart Sheffield Bridge, UFO encounter an
abduction. Until next time, this is UFO
warning over now