This was not something that you would have seen in 1969 anywhere else. This one room had a bowed-in wall that was rounded. This hallway we had seen was circular with a Y-configuration almost to control the flow of traffic. There were lights that looked like fluorescent tubing inside this hangar. We had a black and white television at time and the imagery that we saw on this thing was unbelievable. As for the 1969 event, he says he remembers more than he would like to. In 1966 he says he saw a vessel at his family’s property. Reed says it wasn’t the first time he had experienced something of this kind. In August, a granite monument, paid for by people who say they saw something that night, was unveiled near the Sheffield Bridge. Oppermann says the public response has been mixed, some praising it as a bold step while traditionalists have been skeptical. There were several eyewitnesses and WSBS reported on it so it is historically significant.” “Basically because it’s an event that was important to many people in South County at that time. “From our perspective it’s a significantly historic event,” Oppermann said. history.” Debbie Oppermann is the society’s director. More than 45 years later, the Great Barrington Historical Society officially recognized it as “the first off-world/UFO case in U.S.
The local radio station, WSBS, broadcast accounts of the event. Reed wasn’t the only one to report seeing something that night. After a while, they realized more than two hours had gone by. Reed says they found themselves back inside the car, but his mother and grandmother had switched spots. Then we remember bits and pieces of being in like a hangar. Then there was an eruption of crickets and frogs and it got really loud and that was it. There was like a barometric change in pressure. It was like being in the middle of a hurricane. “It came to a stop off the right side of the road. “Then that was the last thing we really remembered from the station wagon,” he said. Reed says his family saw what looked like an amber glow on both sides of the dirt road. We could see inside the car so the light was flooding inside the car.” The light started to bleed through once we broke into a little bit of a clearing. It looked like it followed the dirt road, which I’m sure it probably didn’t, but it appeared that way because we could see it through the trees. We all looked at it because it was kind of a self-contained glow. “My grandmother turned around to see some lights coming up what looked like from behind the bridge or trees.
“I was giving my brother a little fireball candy,” Reed explains.
A monument now stands near the Sheffield Bridge in the small western Massachusetts town recognizing an out of the ordinary event – the sighting of an unidentified flying object.Nine-year-old Thom Reed was riding in a car with his mother, grandmother and brother crossing the Sheffield Bridge heading home from their restaurant Village on the Green on September 1, 1969.
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