1984-11-08 - Brewster, NY - Unknown

Massive black “ship” moving slowly about 3X tree height above ground. Black “battleship” floating silently with some lights.

I was in high school and driving home from visiting a friend. This was the normal route we took and it’s about 2 miles from our parents house. I was in the vehicle with my brother. As we drove along the edge of the reservoir where the water cascades down I noticed something massive In the sky just two or three tree heights in the air. I screamed out loud to my brother, “pull over, pull over!” I remember that we stopped the car and actually crossed the road we were heading north at the time and we cross the road to a grassy area on the east side of the road adjacent to the reservoir spillway. To this day I can remember the feeling in my chest of anxiety and anticipation and excitement that something bizarre was happening and I jumped out of the car and I can remember my brother getting a little nervous as he screamed “what the hell are you doing?“

I looked up and there it was this massive dark form against the night sky blocking out any stars so it came right over us and it seemed as though we could reach up and touch it. If you asked me what its shape was it was too close to us that I did not see it at a distance initially I sought just from below and it seem to have girders and sheep to this massive battleship sized “ship.“. It was eerie because there was no significant sound. I remember it having a low humming sound very low and not too loud but my brother remembers it as totally silent. When I say battleship it’s because I had spent time at the time in my life in Boy Scouts visiting the battleship Massachusetts in fall river. So I had some sense of the scale and this thing was gigantic. Essentially it was impossible what I was looking at it was something that couldn’t exist a battleship sized object floating quietly above our heads just seemingly above the tree line. It was traveling in the same direction we were so when we jumped out it was just coming over us from south to north and as we stood there at the edge of the reservoir it started to turn and head west in a northwesterly direction, somewhat toward the village of Brewster. I do remember it having some kind of glowing lights on it but that was not a memorable aspect they were too blurry or something. And that seems to be the primary characteristic that I remember is that the shape of the object and the lights were blurry and when you looked directly at them you couldn’t make out the particular shape even though there was angular form in this dark mass as if it was a metal structure of some kind and it did have lights. Then only five minutes after standing there the thing was already halfway across the reservoir and turned more sharply to the west and just headed in that direction sort of toward Carmel New York.

My brother and I rushed home and promptly told our parents what we had witnessed and it didn’t even disrupt their television watching for the evening. I remember feeling a strange sense of dreaminess about this event when we told friends and other people and at the time we knew no one and found no one who had shared the experience. As the years of passed thanks to YouTube I have discovered the Hudson Valley UFOs. This includes a piece from unsolved mysteries television show which refers to Dennis Sant, A local public officials who I remember as a child was in my father‘s circles. Here’s a count of the ship including some of the re-creations on the show really woke me up to the realization that I had not dreamt of this experience. Because you do question after all the years whether it actually happened when there is no feedback mechanism as there is today with social media. I have since searched the Internet and YouTube extensively and watched many videos that people uploaded. They are harder to fine today but around 10 years ago there were easier to find and more plentiful on YouTube and many a persons VHS tapes were shared and I definitely felt that that was the object that we had experienced even though there was some differences in the lights and the actual shape.