The Hudson Valley UFOs: How the Media Reacted to a 1980s UFO Flap - The Debrief

With notable exceptions, the media abandoned straightforward coverage of UFOs between the negative 1969 Condon Committee report and the December 2017 blockbuster revelations of a secret government UFO study. Jazz Shaw makes this observation and gives one instance—a UFO flap—in which disdain wasn't the case. Johnathan Croyle returns us to those "thrilling days of yesteryear" when the "Summer of the Saucers" was in full swing in Even before the Alien Rumors at Area 51, UFO Fever Gripped Syracuse in 1947. Croyle even notes local "hysteria" and a serious radio interview just before the "Roswell crash story" ignited for (at the time) a very short run. Croyle also shows how town media and businesses used the furor to good advantage! But it wasn't all "fun and games" for some. "Close Encounters" could exact a toll; consider The Minnesota Cop Who Crashed His Patrol Car into a UFO. Not sure Val Johnson actually did the "crashing" in 1979, but Zaron Burnett III's excellent article details the event and aftermath, and includes a short interview with Johnson himself. Brent Swancer tells of A Bizarre and Violent Alien Encounter in Spain. Not long before Johnson's smashup, Spanish soldiers had their own too-close experience—one of the strangest CEIIIs you'll read about. Brent says the soldiers fired about 50 rounds at the "Green man of Talavera la Real," and this case like Johnson's has never been explained. (WM)

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