Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
Today's topic The Berkshires Abduction.
Now this is an abduction that occurred or is the abductee
likes to refer to it, I believe as an encounter that occurred
back in 1969. The first article I linked to is
from iberkshires.com. Now you can go to the Twitter
site UFO Warning. You can get there by going to at
Warning sub UFO. Or just cruise on over to
Twitter to the UFO Warning account and I have the links to
all the articles there. The article starts off the title
is Berkshire Athanam backdrop for a TV Show on Local UFO
story. Turns out that it Athanam, I'm
sure I'm pronouncing that wrong, is just a glorified library.
So they apparently like to use that word instead.
And then you have this building in the background with the name
on the front of the door. The article starts off it says
Pittsfield, MA. This is dated June 18th, 20.
The Berkshires are being featured in a new episode of
Unsolved Mysteries that are being launched this summer by
Netflix. So this is something that I'm
going to probably check out. You may want to too.
Sounds like an interesting UFO type themed program.
The first episode is Berkshires UFO and will premiere on
Wednesday, July and but it doesn't give a date.
This episode was partially filmed last year in various
parts of the local history department at the Berkshire
Athenaeum. According to the show's
producer, the Berkshire UFO episode is so strong, but it was
chosen as a lead episode. And the library's acting
supervisor and Marie Harris says the library also helped to
supply some history and information on unidentified
flying objects, sightings and encounters that occurred in
September of 1969. And Sheffield said Harris, an
incident that Great Barrington Historical Society recognized as
historically significant and true.
Now this is a good thing. They've had these multiple
sightings happened back in 1969. They did a lot of research on
this. They did a lot of investigation
work on this, and they got it down in black and white.
And they said, hey, this looks like it's historically
significant and true. That's a great thing to do.
It's a good first step to say something was seen.
Now they're not necessarily trying to explain it, they're
just putting it out there that so many people saw this
phenomena occur that it had to have happened.
And that incident is reported that Tom Reed, his brother,
mother and grandmother were mysteriously taking from their
car by a UFO. Harris said Netflix, a
subscription streaming service, will be launching 6 episodes in
July and six episodes in October.
The story's been featured on television several times before
and is featured at the International UFO Museum and
Research Center in Roswell, NM. The Reeds claim an encounter
with aliens was the pilot episode of Alien Mysteries
Discovery Channel Canada show in 2013.
The Reeds brothers Matt and Thomas say they've had four
encounters with aliens, three in the 1960s, one of which included
their mother and grandmother, and a fourth by Matt in 2009.
So you see you had then you had a couple of encounters previous
to this where the family was abducted or had their encounter
as the fellow says, and then you had a fourth encounter by Matt
in 2009. We see these things do this a
lot with these UFO abductions. They go and they abduct somebody
and for whatever reason they come back frequently and take
this person again and again and again.
And sometimes those people that are taken, they almost develop
something like what I think is the Stockholm syndrome, where
they begin to make excuses for their captors.
It gives them some sort of control, maybe over the
situation mentally to where they're more able to handle it.
They no longer viewed it as an abduction, but as a mini
vacation, so to speak. The brothers say they have
documentation of sightings by others during the 1969 event and
radiation and magnetic anomalies around the times of the
encounters. Thomas Reed had installed a
monument in the Encounter on Bourbon Street and Boardman St.
rather than Sheffield in 2016. That led to several years of
controversy. But the town ordered it removed
off public property and then found the second location was in
the public right of way. It was hauled away a year ago.
It's a little off course what happened, apparently.
You can read up on this is the fellow eventually went back, as
I said, in 2016. This would have been after the
first documentary made by Discovery Canada and put up his
own monument and that caused apparently some discord and
anger in the community and eventually this thing was taken
down. Now maybe that was just as a
result of him being so impacted by what happened to him.
Goes on then it concludes. It says the Great Barrington
Historical Society Museum in 2015 formerly inducted the UFO
story, noting the number of witnesses of unidentified flying
objects that it included Callins to the radio station around the
time of the read story of the 1969 encounter.
Now if we go on to another article here also posted at UFO
Warning at Twitter UFO Warning, you can get there by going to AT
Warning Sub UFO. This article is found on
masslive.com. It says Updated January 7th,
2019. Posted July 26, 2016.
So the original post would have been about four years ago, with
an update about a year and a half ago.
And the title says Thomas Reed, man at center of 1969 Berkshires
UFO report says his story has been sensationalized.
That's a picture of the guy here at his house with the with the
monument that he put up. It's in the articles by Dan Glom
and it says whatever you do, Thomas Reed says do not call it
an abduction. Reed's account of his family's
1969 encounter with the UFO in Sheffield.
We made headlines last year when it boldly went where few tales
of alien sightings have gone before into the historical
record books. The Great Barrington Historical
Society formally inducted the story in February 2015,
describing it as significant and true after reviewing
contemporaneous news coverage, witness statements and polygraph
results. Now I have to tell you that I'm
a pretty big believer in polygraphs, especially if you
can get multiple people taking polygraph tests and passing
them. As we've seen in the Travis
Walton case, that's when you're really putting some substance
and weight onto the side of truth while you're trying to
decide these cases, the article continues.
But not all has gone well since then.
In September, just weeks after the monuments dedication, a
still unidentified vandal took a can of spray paint to the
monument, Sheffield Police Chief Eric Munson said in the
interview. And then it goes on.
It spends quite a bit of time talking about the monument,
about it being vandalized and we finally we get down here a
little, wasting the article and he gets to the meat of the
story, the article says. But worse than the physical
damage is the sensationalism, according to Reed.
He has appeared on a number of alien baiting cable reality
shows, all of which, from paranormal products or I see to
alien mysteries, promised to take his story seriously before
exaggerating it on air, Read said.
Now you can really get the feeling of the guy that's
writing this article is pushing toward the debunking,
delegitimizing size of this abduction story starts off by
saying it's not an abduction. Let me tell you something.
When somebody comes and takes you without asking permission
and put you someplace else, that's an abduction, whether the
abductee realizes it or not. And then the office spends quite
a bit of time talking about this monument that was put up,
apparently without position, without permission according to
the local authorities. Which was which?
Which was repeatedly, I guess, vandalized and finally removed
by the City Council. Whoever.
All of this, all of this information stuff that doesn't
really matter about what happened.
So finally after waiting through all of that, we get down here to
what really happened. It says the papers and the
stories. This is according to Thomas
Reed, The papers and the stories have gotten so ridiculous that
the truth has been lost. We said first of all, they keep
using the cornball terminology. You might find the abduction
stuff. That's not what happened.
Our family is very credible. We are not a bunch of lunatics.
OK? I would just interject this.
Being abducted by aliens or non human entities or whatever they
are doesn't make you a lunatic. It makes you a victim.
OK, it makes you a victim. Doesn't mean you're special per
se. Doesn't mean that aliens have
come here to commune with you. It means that you are a victim
of an act of abduction. Now you can call it an
encounter, you can call it vacation time, but it's an
abduction. Doesn't make you bad person
anymore than having a crime committed against you being
assaulted makes you a bad person.
Okay this you are a random victim.
Reed and his family were driving from Ski Butternut in Great
Barrington over the Sheffield Bridge when they noticed a
bright floating object near their car.
They felt what Reed describes as a change in pressure or an
electromagnetic field. I'm not even sure how you would
feel an electromagnetic field, but that's how he describes it.
A dead silence fell, the light grew brighter, and they found
themselves somewhere else. So they're just driving along
and suddenly they find themselves somewhere else.
In other words, they didn't take themselves there.
They were abducted. That's called an abduction.
That's a legal definition of an abduction taken from point A to
point B without permission. And if they commit a crime to
you against you in the process of that, or they take you to
that, to that place to commit a crime against you, I'm pretty
sure that's called kidnapping. And in some places that's life
in prison, if not worse. It says Now we do remember being
in what looked like an airplane hangar, Reid said.
We didn't stay in the car. We were removed from the
vehicle. That's true.
Where we wore, I don't know. So you're driving along in your
car with your whole family and suddenly you find, after seeing
this bright orb, you find yourself in what looks like an
airplane hangar and you're outside of your car.
If that's not an abduction, I don't know what is it says now.
We do remember being what looked like an airplane hangar.
It said we didn't stay in the car, we were removed from the
vehicle they wore. Removed.
They weren't asked to get out, they were removed.
That's true. Where we wore, I don't know.
Reid also told of encounters with Ufo's that took place in
previous years, but the 1969 incident coincided with
widespread eyewitness reports of a glowing flying object in
Sheffield. According to the Boston Globe,
Reid is now taking action to fix both the physical vandalism of
the monument and sensationalism of his family story.
The monument will be refaced and a solar panel and bench will be
installed in the coming weeks, he said.
In October 22nd, Reid will appear at The Ski Butternut with
fellow UFO advocate Travis Walton, scifi television host
Ben Harrison, and owner of the Star Child School, a deformed
skull which some paranormal enthusiasts say is alien in
origin. Wow, Read Read eventually left
Shape Sheffield before moving to Florida, starting a modeling
agent that saw him provide extras for films like Too Fast,
Too Too Fast, Too Furious, and Miami Vice.
At the event, he hopes to walk back the exaggerations, like
those in his episodes of Uncovering Aliens, a reality
show which turned Reed's ambiguous experience into a tale
of alien experimentation, he says.
I was told that it would be factual and it would be this and
that and that. The other thing, Next thing I
know, they've blown it out of proportion, Reed said.
We were promised it would be a biotype film, it was anything
but. It was so ridiculous.
This is a very strange case and we never really get to the meat
and potatoes of what actually happened to that family.
They just tell us what we found ourselves outside of the outside
of the car in this hangar. Well, it's pretty obvious they
didn't bring in there to sign autographs.
It's pretty obvious that the aliens didn't bring in there to
have tea and crumpets. Probably.
What happened, if I had to make a guess, is this guy is at
repeat abductee and it'd be very interesting to know if he's ever
been examined to see if he's had some sort of alien implant put
in his body somewhere. The very fact he's coming out
and trying to soft pedal all this stuff now you have to
wonder if he just feels embarrassed.
Maybe things did get exaggerated, probably did.
Maybe. Maybe the maybe the show people
just filled in the blanks. I guess it's going to be it's
going to be fascinating to see what happens with this Netflix
video. But I think what happens with a
lot of these cases is people are abducted.
Yes whether it's aliens, non human entities, whatever they
are they are taken some place. Yes as this as these beings move
from 1 dimension to a next and things are done to them.
But I honestly believe that the vast majority of the time
whoever is doing this is trying to trying to eliminate any
trying to eliminate the majority of the of the members that these
people carry back. Now, if these people come back
and tell the rest the rule, I was abducted by aliens, you
know, what kind of a rig and more is that going to raise?
People don't really care. They think they're crazy, or
they think it's interesting and fascinating, or they go out and
they make movies about it and they add a whole bunch of stuff
into it. But if that alien or those
aliens take this family and they go and they do whatever with
them, and they scare the living daylights out of them, they do
things to their body that shouldn't be done to their body,
maybe put implants in them, they've got no right to put in
them, and then they somehow erase all their memory of it.
And how hard would that be for an advanced creature to do to a
human? And then they turn them loose.
What do you have then? You have a person who's been
abducted repeatedly, who has been so affected by it that they
can't even see how wrong it is. It's almost like they're a sex
abuse victim. I hate to put it in those terms,
but that's how it seems. It's it's if they have grown to
have some sort of attachment, making vague excuses for their
abusers, and that's what's going on here in my opinion.
You're driving along the highway with your family, and if what
this guy says is true, they are abducted from point A to point
B. They find themselves in a hangar
and he doesn't know what happened to him.
Let's just make the assumption that what happened wasn't good.
That's criminal. That's not an encounter.
That's an assault and abduction, another fascinating case.
So. And what I found even kind of
strange about this thing is how the whole discussion turned from
the abduction of this young family to this guy who now lives
in Florida trying to put up a monument to where the abduction
quote encounter occurred at, but not bothering to get the proper
permits or purchase the property to do it.
And then having this major conflict that erupted around
this monument with the people not wanting it there and then
the city authorities finally coming out and just getting rid
of it. Very odd, very odd.
How somebody's repeated kidnapping and assault could be
turned into a discussion about why can't I put a monument where
this kidnapping and assault that I want to call encounter
happened at. It's fascinating case
fascinating on so many levels because we see the reaction of
the people, we see what this apparent amnesia that took
place. And then we have multiple mass
sightings this very night at the very UFO they described at the
time the abduction happened with the person who had previously
been abducted and who and who was abducted again at least once
since 2009. Maybe more.
Maybe he's not remembering the other ones.
Who knows. Good reading though.
Take a look. Go to UFO Warning, check out the
Twitter account, check out the links, and for sure check out
the video when it comes on Netflix.
I know I'm going to. I'm going to watch it and we'll
talk about it. Until next time, this is UFO
Warning. Over and out.