By Robert D. Morningstar
(Copyright 2009, Robert D. Morningstar - All Rights Reserved)
Posted: 15:37 March 13, 2009
As Editor of UFO Digest, I receive weekly reports on UFO activities around the world. This latest one hit very close to home.
The story of the Torrington UFO Flap for me began with this email from a resident of Torrington, a small Connecticut town near Hartford."
On Fri, 3/6/09, Don wrote:
From: Don
Subject: Re: video
To: M*
Date: Friday, March 6, 2009, 11:00 AM
Someone is reporting in today's paper that they live in Goshen, Conn. and took a walk in the woods.
Upon venturing a bit further away than usual they encountered military personnel who told them they needed to leave, that they were trespassing. Goshen does not have military land.
There has been an increase in helicopter activity over the last few days.
People had reported a UFO there.
I have no further information, but may take a drive up there later today and look around. Very rural area, many roads, very little industry, mostly single family homes, farms, a church, small town hall, one school, a farm machinery store, small commercial smokehouse, couple of small ponds and two wild animal farms.
I have requested further information from the poster. Keep you informed,
Don
To which I replied:
Re: Don & Crow lines to Sikorsky
Friday, March 6, 2009 1:32 PM
From: M*
This is is sounding more and more interesting everyday.
We should be aware that this is not far (as the crow flies) from the Sikorsky helicopter plant near Bridgeport.
Perhaps this could have something to do with them.
M*
Then, this reply was followed by…
--- On Fri, 3/6/09, Don wrote:
From: Don
Subject: Re: video
To: M*
Date: Friday, March 6, 2009, 3:29 PM
I took a ride up and down every road I knew in that town. I couldn't see anything; everything was quiet.
Now people are seriously reporting this large elongated red object from various locations in our area, and said it was sort of undulating as it moved. One posted a photo and I tried to get it onto my computer but the link didn't work.
This object was reported from three different locations within a 30-mile radius.
Some of the posters on the newspaper site just go on to yank other posters' comments.
It's hard to decipher which are real and which are fake. I am giving you the gist of what has been going on in the posts.
Don
The local newspaper, The Register Citizen, then posted these readers' reports and comments on their "Sound Off" web page:
"UFO ROUTE 8 LAST NIGHT" wrote on Mar 4, 2009 7:57 AM:
"I was taking a walk outside my home last night. Being a commercial airline pilot with over 30 years experience, I always looked at the sky. But last night I saw a number of orange and red lights approaching from the west. I got my binoculars and called my neighbors to come outside.
The object, by this time was a great deal closer and seemed to be right over route 8, just east of the hospital. The lights were shimmering like distortion from engine heat, but I could not hear any sound. The UFO passed over route 8, cars in both the north and southbound lanes began pulling over and stopping.
The UFO displayed a semi-circular pattern of very bright multi-colored lights.
Five motorists started screaming, as the object became visible, a number of cars lost power and had to pull off the highway. I'm surprised this was not in today's newspaper.
A cover-up I suppose."
Another witness, requesting anonymity, posted the photo he took here:
Holy Mackeral wrote on Mar 4, 2009 8:10 AM:
"Now you heard those motorists on Rt # 8 screaming from outside your home?
Do you still fly or did they finally ground you?"
"Ray Finkle" wrote on Mar 4, 2009 8:28 AM:
"Has anyone noticed the increased airplane and helicopter traffic in the West Torrington / Goshen area?
Is there government activity going on that we should be concerned about?
With all of the UFO activity going on this concerns me.
Ray"
Re "Holy Mackeral" wrote on Mar 4, 2009 8:36 AM:
"Yes I live off of Harwinton Ave and yes I'm a retired pilot.
I don't appreciate the rudeness. I'm just stating what I saw."
"UFOs" wrote on Mar 4, 2009 8:59 AM:
"WHY would any UFO that just traversed light years to get here have any need for something as mundane as lights?
Turn signals? (If so, at least they're using them!)
Imagine for a moment possessing the technology required to arrive here from the East Cupcake Galaxy.
Do you suppose you'd have to hide and be secretive about your presense? (sic)
Nah! I'd smoke right up Main St., mocking your puny decorations as I go. Or...check out your shopping carts!
HUBBA HUBBA!
Go in peace."
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March 4th, 2009
"What UFO" wrote on Mar 4, 2009 9:10 AM:
"What time did this UFO stroll over Torrington lat night?
I was on the highway and didn't see nothing (sic) more than a clear night sky.
I did how ever (sic) witness a (sic) immigrant pushing a shopping cart yesterday down the sidewalk by Carls (sic) true value (sic).
Very interesting sight to watch as I waited for the light.
This guy was of muslim (sic) descent and was wearing a dress and sandles.(sic)
Possibly a (sic) alien?????"
The writer, "What UFO," at least spelled "alien" correctly.
UFOs wrote on Mar 4, 2009 9:40 AM:
"Did you really see a UFO over route 8 and did it do what you say it did causing cars to lose power or are you just making it up?
There was a story of a UFO sighting they talked about on the History Channel in another part of the country in which they had a lot of sightings including police officers seeing a object. One of the cops followed the object for awhile and it stopped moving and hovered and his police car lost power along with radio contact to his station.
If aliens were to really exist with the amount of sightings and lets say a few are Extra Terrestrials flying the crafts then we could say it would be possible they live somewhere within the planet and aren't flying in from outer space.
If aliens existed think of how it would effect (sic) religion or the fear of the country.
You people are trying to figure out how to keep illegal immigrants out of Torrington.
What about Extra Terrestrial beings going wherever they want with no problem getting around security?
Then if they were to exist it would be smart for the government to keep it quiet if they knew they did exist because whenever someone sees a craft they can't say it's a alien craft or a military craft giving the military perfect stealth because people will always question what they actually saw."
"Amen, Brother!"
"To Ray" wrote on Mar 4, 2009 9:53 AM:
Thank you"
"UFO MYSTERY SOLVED" wrote on Mar 4, 2009 10:16 AM:
" The mystery surrounding apparent UFO sightings in the sky over near the hospital last week may have been solved by a Torrington woman.
Lyn Brown, 44, said the glowing objects which have been spotted in recent weeks, are probably Chinese "sky lanterns", also known as Khoom Fay.
Mrs Brown said she had bought 40 of the metre-tall paper lanterns, which contain a wick, which is lit by a flame, from the internet auction site eBay in June.
Users of the lanterns are warned to avoid windy conditions, airports and property (including gazebos). There is also implications for gorseland and dry fields, which can become a tinderbox in summer (although incessant rain means that is unlikely to be a major problem this year).
Mrs Brown decided to tell the Republican about the lanterns after she read about people who claimed they had seen UFOs.
People have described seeing an "orange blob" in the sky, which is remarkably similar to what a lit sky lantern looks like.
Mrs Brown decided to keep quiet until now because of the entertainment it has given her family.
"We've been highly amused by all this talk. It was a case of I wonder who's going to be in the paper this week."
Mrs Brown, who works for the career advice service Connexions, said if she had seen the lanterns float over her garden, she would have wanted to know more. "I would have been really puzzled. I probably would have talked about it for quite a while afterwards. But I think common sense would have prevailed," she said:
They'd take one look at our civilization (sic) and want to leave."
"UFO Sightings" wrote on Mar 4, 2009 10:17 AM:
"If some of you are interested in UFO sightings tune into the History Channel tonight at 10 pm. Every Wednesday night at 10 they air up to date UFO sightings and investigate them."
"UFOs" wrote on Mar 4, 2009 10:20 AM:
" Some of the investigations they do on the UFO Hunters show on the History Channel is they experiment with flares with lanterns and other things to see if the witnesses could identify it as being what they saw or if it was something else.
If they launched Chinese Lanterns in the past 2 months that would be a very good explaination (sic)"
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Humidity in Atmosphere Creates Halo-like Effect
Torrington, Connecticut
March 6th, 2009
UFOs and the Press
We have been looking for the UFOs and I have not been able to find them. We have been searching in all local, state and national media for the UFOs over the City of Torrington. In the past week, numerous people have been writing in Sound Off and posting comments on the web regarding the rash of sightings in the past week. The City is being invaded and the press is not covering the story.
Why, why, why?
Newspapers need to increase circulation and their failure to cover a hot topic like this is an injustice to their business and our right to have news brought to us on subjects that are news and are news worthy. When the UFO was reported on 01/01/07 over O'Hare Airport in Chicago, the newspaper sold a record number of papers. More people are interested in this topic than the press realizes.
We host a weekly local TV show called Spiritual and Paranormal Experiences on Cable 5 every Tuesday at 5 p.m. We also host a weekly radio internet call in show immediately following our TV program.
We are conducting an investigation and will be requesting local, state, federal, and other authorities to conduct a formal investigation on what are the Unidentified Objects in the sky over the city of Torrington, CT.
If you have seen these objects and wish to come forward please contact us at on the web www.cbezio.com<, e-mail chuck@cbezio.com or phone: (860) 866-4793.
We as a community need to know if the police are investigating this?
What actions have the Mayor and the city done?
What is the state planning to do?
Is the military monitoring this?
Chuck and Jen Bezio
e-mail: chuck@cbezio.com
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March 4th, 2009
"My wife and I had a close encounter last night around 11 p.m. with a multi-colored triangular shaped UFO 10 miles west of Torrington on Route 4.
The object moved very slowly, and dropped in altitude to pace our car.
Its underside was crisscrossed with tubes and grill work.
A red light in the center of the object detached, circled the object three times, then returned back to its original position.
It left by making a sharp turn to the south. The encounter lasted 10 minutes. Afterward we followed it and it disappeared in the pond across from the wildlife game farm."
The description above does not sound like the action of a "Chinese Lantern"…
Nebulosity Study Reveals UFO's Atmospheric Effects
In Red for Blue Color Swap Inverted & Equalized
March 4th, 2009
as a matter of fact, I think we have a few living right here in our neighborhood.
UFOs that is!"
Editor, UFO Digest
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