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Issue No. 4

April 2008 Issue

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THE MASSACHUSETTS UFO continued...
By Larry Cugini

     I offer all of the preceding information in order to illustrate one fact: In the densely populated, highly congested Lake section of Newton, MA in 1966, anything “scientific” might as well have been labeled “magic”. Nicola Tesla was about as credible as Peter Cottontail. The Theory of Relativity might just as well have come out of a fortune cookie.  Extraterrestrials did not exist because they could not, since there was no nifty Italian word or disparaging street nickname for them. That being said...
     My mother related this experience to me just recently:     
     One afternoon in late spring of 1966 my father, then 38, my mother, 23, my grandmother, 63, and myself, just a year old, were coming back from a trip to Southwick's Zoo in Mendon, MA. We went there often, I'm told. We had had a fun day. My father dropped us off at the top of the driveway and then he went out to pick up some cold cuts, cheese, roasted peppers, bread, and wine (the usual gallon of cheap Tavola Red, with the checkered tablecloth on the label) for a light dinner.
     As Mom, Grandma, and I (in my mother's arms) were walking down the driveway towards the house, I cooed and pointed into the air. Mom says she looked up and froze in her tracks. There was a large object hovering motionless about three feet above the roof of our 2-story house. Gesturing towards it, Mom hissed to Grandma, “Ma -- look!”
     Grandma looked up, gasped, and said, "Jesus, what is that?"
     It was a cigar-shaped object, apparently metallic, matte black (not shiny), and featureless. It was totally silent. It was positioned along the top edge of the roof, about as long as the house, maybe 60 feet. It was around 7 or 8 feet thick. It was totally motionless, not moving with the breeze. Mom says there was a wavy aura of heated air around the whole object, but they felt no heat or wind from it. She says it was totally alien to them, yet neither she nor Grandma had felt panicked. In fact, they were oddly calm. She says that even I didn't cry or show fear. They watched it for a couple of minutes and it didn't move or make a sound.
     Eventually, Mom told Grandma she thought she should get me in the house because she didn't trust the thing, so we all ducked indoors. About fifteen minutes

later, Mom timidly peeked outside to see if it was still there. It was still above our house, but it had realigned itself diagonally. It betrayed no reaction to my mother’s re-emergence from the house. A few minutes later, despite misgivings, Mom and Grandma stepped out together and walked up the driveway, as was their custom whenever Grandma went home. They both turned and looked up. The object was gone. They looked around from the elevation of the street but there was no sign of it. As far as Mom could tell, no other neighbors were ever aware of the object.
     When my father got home, he said he hadn't seen anything unusual when he had dropped them off. Mom says none of them ever called to report it. They never spoke of it again until Mom told me about it today.
     The thing that creeps me out the most about this story is the calm, casual behavior displayed by the two women in what I would think most people would have perceived as a panic situation. Then there is the strange fact that somehow my mother did not even remember this event until about a year ago. It is totally unlike her to fabricate such things -- to fabricate anything, really. Unfortunately, neither my grandmother nor my father is still around for cross-examination. Of course, having been a baby at the time of the event, I have absolutely no recollection of anything of the sort.
     All I will say is that if this could happen in the unscientific microcosm of the Lake in the 60’s, then NO culture is free from outside observation, paranormal activity, or unexplainable phenomena.