"If they were seeing flashes in the sky it could be almost anything. That may explain the Pittsfield sighting, but what about the reports that followed?įirmani again said MUFON had received no similar reports, and offered some more non-galactic explanations. "Pretty much it's just a lantern that you light up and the hot air launches things in the air and they will look like a string of orbs hanging in the sky, and the wind direction, depending on how high up they are, can alter what directions they're travelling in." Besides just sending up regular fireworks, there are things the firework retailers sell called Chinese Lanterns.'"
"Around the Fourth of July we're usually prepared for things like that. Steve Firmani, director of the New England bureau of the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, said that while MUFON received no reports from Pittsfield on July 1, the sighting wasn't surprising. Tuesday, Pittsfield Police Sergeant Mark Trapani said there were no reports of aerial phenomena made on July 2, and Lenox police said they had not been contacted regarding lights over town over the last week. Just large, large lights just kind of hovering." "I've known a few people who have seen some up at Wachonah Falls, so if you go up past the falls actually, up onto the top of the mountain there. While he has never witnessed the phenomena, Dalton resident Caleb Hiliadis concurred that there have been recent reports of UFO sightings over Pittsfield. There was a mystery airship sighting around here there was some strange lights in North Adams in the thirties."
"There's some sightings and stuff that have been in the papers going back the last century or so. Pittsfield resident Joe Durwin is author of the blog "These Mysterious Hills" and writes a periodic newspaper column of the same name on local folklore. These types of sightings, generally referred to as "unidentified flying objects," or UFOs, are not new to the Berkshires. Pittsfield, MA – The reports first appeared on an online forum July 2 several Berkshire County residents had witnessed what they described as, "lighted objects," floating over Pittsfield and south county, rotating and turning different shades of, "orange, yellow and red," on the evening of July 1.Ī month later, Great Barrington residents reported seeing what were described as, "incredible flashing white lights," in skies to the south on August 1, and others reported seeing strange lights over Lenox on August 5.
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