Hudson Valley UFOs

Having grown up near the Hudson Valley, I was surprised to find all these detailed cases that I had never heard about. I initially was looking for information about the Hudson Valley UFO sightings from the 1980's which are well known to researchers and readers of this genre. However, Zimmerman shows us that this area has been host to numerous UFO encounters going back many decades. There was even a close-up sighting right over my neighborhood and a friend's over a reservoir​ in New Jersey! It makes you wonder how often this strange phenomenon is going on with almost no public knowledge beyond the immediate witnesses. Some of these stories are quite memorable such as the case where a hovering UFO causes a sandpile in someone's driveway to glassify in upstate New York.(Simeon Hein is the author of  Black Swan Ghosts: A sociologist encounters witnesses to unexplained aerial craft, their occupants, and other elements of the multiverse , Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance , and Planetary Intelligence: 101 Easy Steps to Energy, Well Being, and Natural Insight.)

It's okay, but pretty elementary. I'm not sure how this book got all of the 5-star ratings, but I've noticed the total number of ratings has remained constant since I've purchased it - probably indicative of the fact it's either not a big seller; other people aren't taking the time to review it; or that most of the original "reviews" were solicited.It's not an awful book, but there's just not much depth to it. It mostly consists of a smattering of short chapters arranged around topics such as "cigar-shaped" or "rectangular-shaped" UFOs. Each of these chapters further consist of short summaries of particular people's "experiences" with so-called UFOs of a type aligned with the chapter title, but there's little to no analysis, and what is offered is pretty basic. Knowing what I know now, if I had it to do over again, I'd probably download/read the sample on Kindle, and from there, I would have deemed this to be a "pass". If you just want to read a few basic accounts, this is fine. If you want some substantive analysis, move on; this one ain't got it.

As in her book, ,"In The Night Sky", Linda Zimmerman has compiled an impressive list of UFO sightings, ranging from the slightly unusual to the very bizarre. This book contains reports in the Hudson Valley that continue today. That no one hears of them is in itself amazing. Linda writes in a way that makes you believe in people and what they've experienced. This book is well worth it, for anyone even remotely interested in the subject.

Linda gives voice to the Hudson Valley people that witnessed one of the major events in the fascinating mystery of UFOs. Her interviews are compelling and take the reader back in time to the Hudson Valley UFO wave in the 80's, a major cluster of sightings that were observed by thousands of people in upper New York State. The quality of the witnesses is outstanding and you will have a hard time doubting their testimony.This book is a must read for anyone with a serious interest in the UFO phenomenon. I am looking forward to Linda's next book.

I heard Linda Zimmerman speak at last year's MUFON Symposium, and saw her presentation on the wave of UFO sightings that have been documented in The Hudson Valley. Linda knows her subject well (having had a couple of impressive sightings in the area Herself!), and presents her investigations logically and eloquently.I would recommend Hudson Valley UFOs to anyone interested in the subject. A very enjoyable book, and I look forward to reading anything Zimmerman publishes in the future.5 stars! :)

This author writes about unidentified aerial phenomena in a frank informative style. It shocks me that government wonks and military officers choose to squelch information on the very same topic. Why deny they exist just because your own planes are outclassed?

This book is fantastic. I had friends that lived in the Kingston, NY area and reported strange things all over that area: flying discs, shinning orbs, and other things) These accounts in the book are from real everyday people (including police, teachers, and even a few skeptics.). A lot of research went into this book. It is a great read for anyone questioning UFO's or wants more information on them. I'd love to visit the area.

Very well researched and informative on the strange occurrences occurring in the Hudson Valley area for the last hundred years. The author clearly conveys the extent and depth of the phenomena involving everyone from law enforcement, government, military, and beyond. Something is DEFINITELY going on in this region!

1998 saw the publication of the second, updated, edition of a book entitled 'Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings'. It was authored by Dr J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno and Bob Pratt, and describes a series of remarkable UFO sightings that began at the end of 1982 and continued into the mid-1990s, mainly involving places in southern New York State and Connecticut, such as Bedford, Brewster, Carmel, Danbury and Fairfield.Although Imbrogno was nominally the second author, he seems to have been the main contributor to 'Night Siege'. But his reputation suffered a dent in 2011, when his credentials came under scrutiny. For example, he supposedly had degrees from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), although when Lance Moody, a UFO sceptic, contacted MIT to check, he was informed that the institution had no record of that!Of course, if UFO researchers lie about their credentials, the reliability of their UFO-related writings will be called into question. But one would be hard put to find anyone who has never told a lie; and if authors misrepresent their qualifications, it doesn't necessarily follow that they've told lies in their books or articles. At any rate, 'Night Siege' isn't the only compilation of UFO sighting reports concerning the Hudson Valley. In 2013, Linda Zimmerman's book 'In the Night Sky' was published, which focuses on the area, although I've yet to read it myself. But I've read her 2014 book, 'Hudson Valley UFOs', which is, of course, the subject of this review. Much of the testimony it cites was obtained from witnesses by Zimmerman herself, and in addition to straightforward UFO sightings, she describes cases of the alien abduction and entity encounter type.Zimmerman notes (p. 1) that there was a wave of sightings of mysterious airships over the north-east of the USA in 1909-10, with many of them occurring in the Hudson Valley. UFO sightings in the area have continued over the years, and some of the cases that Zimmerman mentions are very recent. In the unpaginated introduction to her book (oddly, the pagination doesn't start until Chapter 1), she contends that "the Hudson Valley is most likely the #1 Hotspot for UFO activity in the [USA]." However, since she doesn't provide comparative statistical data, that's conjectural.'Project Blue Book' (PBB) was one of a series of studies of UFO reports conducted by the United States Air Force. It started in 1952 and was wound up at the beginning of 1970. Zimmerman examines its treatment of a number of cases from the Hudson Valley. She notes (p. 117) that PBB reporters "constantly employed the technique of taking a couple of words from the witnesses and miscategorizing the entire sighting..." For example, a UFO reported by a commercial airline pilot in October 1955 was deemed, by PBB, to be "Typical of a shooting star", even though the object reduced its speed to that of the aircraft, paralleled its course for roughly 15 seconds, and then went away, gaining altitude at a seemingly infinite speed (pp. 115-118).Given that the book has a regional focus and not all of its readers may be familiar with the Hudson Valley, it would have been helpful if Zimmerman had included at least one or two outline maps.I noticed only a few typos, but unfortunately the book has presentational problems. At points, Zimmerman includes large blocks of quoted witness testimony, but without indenting the material, using quotation marks, or otherwise clearly differentiating it from her own text. In places, such quoted material appears with no introduction, just a section heading. Someone opening the book at random and coming upon such a passage might wrongly assume that the words were Zimmerman's, not those of a witness.At points, I found Zimmerman's wording unclear, and in at least one instance (p. 66) she seems to have overlooked an obvious error in witness testimony ("We parked facing the lake at 103 degrees Northeast").

Interesting record of the phenomena......good book for someone new to the field.Lacked any tie-in to the larger picture - good for a library reference.