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The Berkshire UFO
The Reed family said they encountered an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) while taking a shortcut home over the Sheffield Bridge in Massachusetts at 8.30 p.m. on September 1, 1969. Thom Reed, who was nine, recalls the incident in great detail.
He informed 9news.com.au that his mother, Nancy Reed, was driving, and his grandma was in the passenger seat.
His younger brother Matthew was sitting next to him, and the two had been swapping lollipops.
“Light shone through the bridge’s bottom planks,” he explained.
“As we left the bridge and came out the other side, we saw what looked like a self-contained sphere of white light, and as it rose up maybe two stories, there were some rods of light. They fired several thin directional laser-like poles of light from one side to the other.
“The light then retracted into it, and the sphere 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 car’s right that looked like it was sitting underwater.
“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 stoned tapping under the car’s fender.”
