New England is one of the favorite places to visit for aliens. Over the centuries, there have been many reports of UFO sightings and encounters with aliens.
Below are some of the most interesting and more recent moments from New England's own X-Files.
The Abductions of Allagash (1976)
In August 1976, according to their own account, four students at Massachusetts College went canoeing along the Allagash waterways in Maine and saw an unidentified object in the sky. They described the sighting of the ranger the next day, but did not take it seriously: in fact, they assumed they saw a spotlight that was being used to celebrate the grand opening of a hardware store in Millinocket.
The students continued their trip and said little about their meeting until years later one of them, Jim Weiner, had seizures. Weiner claimed to have had visions of humanoid beings hovering over his bed, poking needles at him. Under hypnosis, all four described the little gray aliens who took them aboard the spacecraft and performed medical examinations.
The 1993 book The Abductions of Allagash produced an instant media sweetheart from a quartet that appeared on The Joan Rivers Show and Untold Secrets. However, in 2016, one of the men, Charlie Cancer, said that while the group did see unidentified flying objects twice during the canoe trip, the rest of the story was made up. His former friends dispute this.
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Lights of Newtown (1987)
On May 26, 1987, commercial airline pilot Randy Etting took a night walk outside his home in Newtown, Connecticut. He often scanned the skies as he walked, trying to spot flying planes. At around 9:45 am, he noticed orange and red lights approaching from the west. He took out his binoculars and called his neighbors to go outside. Etting said that as the UFO flew over Interstate 84, cars stopped to watch.
Indeed, between 9:30 and 10:15 pm, over 200 people called the police to make UFO reports. The object displayed a semicircular pattern of very bright multicolored lights. Several drivers reported that their vehicles lost power when the lights passed by. About 15 minutes later, calls began coming in from New Milford, about 14 miles north, warning authorities that lights, which many reported were "larger than a football field," were stuck. The light eventually disappeared, but the mystery remains.
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