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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
IX
FOREWORD BY PHILIP IMBROGNO
XI
I NTRODUCTION
XV
CHAPTER
1
I N THE BEGINNING
1
CHAPTER
2
TOUCHDOWN IN PINE BUSH
14
CHAPTER
3
A PHYSICIST OFFERS HELP
32
CHAPTER
4
CONTACT!
39
CHAPTER
5
THE I NVISIBILITY FACTOR
46
CHAPTER
6
PM
MAGAZINE
GOES
INTO
57
THE FIELD
CHAPTER
7
OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF PINE BUSH
63
CHAPTER
8
REENTRY: 1984
70
CHAPTER
9
ALIENS UNDERGROUND
86
CHAPTER
lO
THE BOOMERANG AND
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10012
THE BIG ONE
CHAPTER
11
MEDIA EXPOSURE AND
102
THE BIRTH OF CONTACTEE
CHAPTER
12
ALIEN VIBES
108
DISTRIBUTED TO THE TRADE BY PUBLISHERS GROUP WEST.
CHAPTER
13
WHERE HAVE ALL
113
THE SAUCERS GONE?
THE MANY SHAPES OF CRAFT
SECOND PRINTING 1995
FIRST PUBLISHED 1991
COPYRIGHT© 1991 ELLEN CRYSTALL
CHAPTER
14
THE HUMAN FACTOR
121
CHAPTER
15
THE PHOTOGRAPHS—
136
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AND ALL UFO PHOTOGRAPHS
CHAPTER
16
A DISCUSSION
153
OF SELECTED PHOTOS
CHAPTER
17
FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE
166
ISBN 1-56924-988-1
APPENDIX
1
EYEWITNESS STATEMENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
DEDICATION
I would like to dedicate this book to all the people who have seen aliens
and crafts and have suffered because of it.
I almost feel I should thank
the elusive and mysterious aliens for causing my obsession,
which has led to a lifelong search for answers to many questions
about them. When I have all those answers, I'll decide whether
the aliens deserved to be thanked. At present, I'm undecided.
Meanwhile, there are hundreds of people who have accompa-
nied me to Pine Bush for research — far too many to name indi-
vidually. But I collectively thank all who spent time with me.
Whether the evenings were fantastically exciting or dull beyond
boredom, I'm grateful for their support.
Many residents of Pine Bush played important roles in this
project, including some who were abducted by aliens and had
terrifying experiences. To all of them, I offer my thanks for tol-
erating my presence when it sometimes made things difficult
and painful because of the emotional depth and power in the
UFO experience.
A number of my friends have been regulars at Pine Bush over
the years. They have supported me emotionally, given me pub-
licity, and in general acted on my behalf. I offer a heartfelt thank
you to Eleanor Motichka, Cathy McCartney, Pick Rohrman, the
Schapper family, Cindy Golas, and the Metaphysical Center of
New Jersey.
Robert Toto passed away in March, 1990. Bob lived next to
Pine Bush. We met in 1986 and had some incredible sightings
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together. He played a key role in bringing people to Pine Bush.
To his wife and daughter, I say thank you.
There are some to whom I'm especially grateful and who
deserve special mention. Harry Lebelson, who was UFO editor
at Omni
magazine in 1980, first took me into Pine Bush. Sam
Stecher, a physicist who worked with us during the early days of
this field study likewise deserves acknowledgment.
I also extend deep thanks to John White for his perseverance
with the project until we got my story into print, and to my pub-
lisher for believing in it.
My parents, Beverley and Jesse Crystall, and my two sisters,
Sandy and Lisa, have seen UFOs on occasions ranging from dis-
tant viewing to close encounters. Although they never chased
the ships as I have, they nevertheless hoped that my quest
would lead me to the truth about UFOs.
Last in line, but not in the depth of my feeling, I thank David
De Lia, who sought me out for Pine Bush excursions after see-
ing me on television. Although he began by thinking only of the
UFO phenomenon, our friendship grew into encouragement,
support, and devotion. For that alone, whatever else happens, I
may end up thanking the aliens.
FOREWORD
Since 1982, thousands of
people have sighted UFOs in the Hudson Valley of New York.
These sightings range from strange lights in the night sky to
close encounters in which witnesses got within one hundred feet
of an object reported to have been metallic and the size of a
football field. The sightings are documented in my book
Night
Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings,
coauthored with Dr. J.
Allen Hynek and Bob Pratt. Ellen Crystall's field research was
carried out in the Pine Bush area of New York, which is located
in the Hudson Valley and is very close to the center of this UFO
activity.
One of the greatest problems investigators face when dealing
with the UFO phenomenon is the accuracy of what witnesses
say happened. Their descriptions are subject to misperception
and bias; their memories are fallible; their honesty may be sus-
pect; their motives may be self-serving.
The UFO investigators themselves may be suspect: Are they
reporting their case truthfully? Are their data open to inspec-
tion? Have they followed the protocols for empirical, objective
investigation? Have they properly documented their findings?
Have they submitted them for peer review? Have they estab-
lished the credibility of their conclusions, no matter how incred-
ible the subject under investigation?
FOREWORD
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leagues will come to be recognized as a solid contribution to our
knowledge of the UFO experience and a clear call for recognis-
ing publicly the scope of the challenge it represents.
This foreword is primarily a tribute to an outstanding UFO
researcher and fact finder. I know of none who is more dedicat-
ed, trustworthy, and persevering than Ellen Crystall. Her work
documenting UFO phenomena at Pine Bush was done in the
field, meticulously collecting the evidence and gathering state-
ments from witnesses. The result of her work,
Silent Invasion,
is
an important contribution to ufological research.
The UFO phenomenon, increasingly, is coming to the atten-
tion of scientists, engineers, and other technically trained peo-
ple. It is very important that researchers involved document
their findings accurately. I feel that Ellen Crystall has done this
well. At first, I was somewhat skeptical of the content of
Silent
Invasion,
but as I read her manuscript, I found that a great deal
of her research paralleled my own. We are both tracking the
same elusive phenomenon in the Hudson Valley. To some, the
incidents she reports may sound like science fiction, but I can
affirm from my own independent investigation of UFO sight-
ings there that the UFO activity in and around Pine Bush is
real.
Ellen Crystall calls for and demonstrates through her own
experience as a UFO investigator the extreme value of paying
attention to the many puzzling UFO reports that have taken
place in the Hudson Valley. I feel that this activity has already
been recognized in some high places in our government, but
certainly not publicly. I leave you to ponder the issue. But
about the existence of the UFO phenomenon at Pine Bush,
New York, there seems to be little question. So many people
from doctors and lawyers, police officers and scientists, to
solid citizens from many walks of life, have had strange
encounters there with something they considered not of this
world that the phenomenon cannot be denied and should not
be ignored.
It is my feeling that the work of Ellen Crystall and her col-
Philip Imbrogno, M.S.
Chairman, Science Department
Windward School, White Plains,
New York
Director, The Bowman Observatory
Greenwich, Connecticut
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