Pine Bush UFO Fair Guide 2015

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Welcome to the Town of Crawford for Pine Bush UFO Fair !

It’s my privilege to serve as Supervisor for the Town Crawford.On behalf of the entire Town Board, we’re very happy to serve as hosts of this fun, family-friendly event! 2015 is a very big year for us! By the time you read this we will have officially broken ground on the new Senior Community Center, located right next to the Town of Crawford Government Building. Our local seniors will now have a new, safe, one level, efficient building in which to conduct their business and social meetings. In addition, the space can be rented out for social occasions, and that income will help to support the costs of maintenance. In addition, the Town Board is thankful to everyone who turned out for the numerous public visioning sessions hosted recently. We listened to what you had to say, and utilizing that information, compiled and developed a Community Development Plan that incorporated your feedback. Based upon that, please keep your eyes open for changes that are coming our way! First up; ‘Crawford Commons’ in Pine Bush, located by the gazebo and surrounding area of Main Street. ‘Crawford Commons’ is an enhancement project established to support our local Main Street area business district. It will be a beautifully developed, green area in which to sit and relax right in the center of the Main Street shopping area. The Town set aside money for capital projects such as this, and grant funding is already coming in to leverage future costs. This again, thanks to your input! We can continue to use the data collected from the public vision-ing sessions on grant applications for future projects. We’re very proud to be the home of the historical, Main Street area that you see today. If you’re thinking of relocating your family or business to this wonderful, community minded place, please give us a call anytime! Enjoy the fun today and we hope that you’ll come back to visit with us again soon!

Sincerely, Charles E. Carnes; Supervisor; Town of Crawford (845) 744-5010

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Charles E. Carnes Supervisor

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The Office Pine Bush UFO Fair Guide is published by Wallkill Valley Valley Publications Inc., publisher of the Wallkill Valley Times, Mid Hudson Times and Southern Ulster Times. www.timescommunitypapers.comCover illustration by Chris Shortle


Eye spy an alien game! Aliens are hiding all over Pine Bush!Grab a free game card at the Prize Tent (located in the Gazebo area) The card lists the places in town where the aliens are hiding! Visit as many as you can and search for that ALIEN! When you find it someone will stamp your card. Return to the prize tent later in the day with your stamped card and receive a prize! If you can’t find them all- that’s okay but the more stamps you get, the better the prize!


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Pine Bush, New York is no normal Orange County suburb. Pine Bush is widely regarded as the UFO capital of the east coast.The Hudson Valley of New York has long been referred to as the home of some truly strange occurrences. Ghost lights are seen in the woods regularly. Ghosts themselves run rampant through-out the entire area. And, most famously, the Hudson Valley has long been known to attract strange vessels and beings from outer space. Pine Bush came to be known worldwide as the pri-mary destination for these extraterrestrial visitors in the area. Some Pine Bush locals have personal stories of alien sightings, abductions and encounters dating as far back as the 1960s, but the town’s reputation as a hotbed of UFO activity was cemented largely during an incredibly active flurry of strange sightings that occurred in the mid-1980s and continued into the 1990s. Locals first began to speak among each other regarding the strange events they were noticing. Many had seen different types of odd aircraft––from the familiar boomerang-shaped vessel to pencil-thin hovering objects to quickly-moving balls and beams of light making regular sojourns in the skies above their homes. Furthermore, people began whispering of strange strobe lights that were often seen emanating from forests and wooded areas scattered about town. Many reported hearing strange noises and having odd things happen at the Jewish Cemetery on Route 52. Town officials were also confused by the recurring phenomenon happening at a small bridge in town––no matter how many times they would repaint the structure, the paint would quickly peel away for no apparent reason. These stories were told privately, if at all, among confused and scared locals. Many didn’t realize that their neighbors were having experiences similar to their own––most people were unsure of what they had seen or were frightened of being regarded as crazy for their claims. Peoples’ attitudes about their experiences started to slowly change in 1991, with the publication of Silent Invasion: The Shocking Discoveries of a UFO Researcher, by Ellen Crystall. Crystall, a New Jersey resident, had been traveling to Pine Bush for eleven years, researching stories of alien encounters there. She detailed UFO sightings and other related phenomena in her book, and also included a series of controversial photos said to depict actual run-ins with alien craft. The book made only a very small splash, but did lead to a series of appearances for Crystall on a number of talk shows. A few magazines and television

programs visited Pine Bush to conduct their own investigations. Most importantly, the book outed the town as a focal point of UFO activity, and made people much more comfortable about coming forward with their own personal tales. Locals began sharing their stories with each other and they realized the astonishing number of incidents people had experienced in Pine Bush. Many of the stories were completely sensational, telling of groups of dozens of strange aircraft flying over the town at once. People regularly began meeting at certain spots at night to keep their eyes peeled for more UFOs. They became known as “skywatchers” or “UFOers.” Over time, more and more people from outside Pine Bush came to join their ranks. The town’s reputation grew as more and more sightings occurred. By the middle of the decade, Pine Bush was widely recognized as the most active hub of UFO activity on the east coast of the United States. The town’s reputation grew even larger when it was revealed that popular author Whitley Strieber’s two books chronicling his personal encounters with alien beings took place in a small cabin he owned just outside the borders of Pine Bush. Large crowds gathered nightly at a number of locations throughout the town. The most-attended spot was West Searesville Road. Hundreds of people reported seeing objects in the sky above this desolate street, and as the reports grew in number, so did the crowds. Eventually, the number of people skywatching on West Searesville became so large that the town was forced to prohibit the activity––the crowds were disrupting traffic on the road and people would often wander off onto private property, hassling and waking up residents (who were probably so used to UFO visits that they weren’t even bothering to go out and look for them anymore.) Police would patrol the road each night to make sure crowds were not forming. Their efforts worked on some level––but smaller groups still hit the road looking for visitors from behind, and others formed on South Searesville, at the Jewish Cemetery on Route 52 (which was also the location of strange rumbling sounds and even unidentified animal sightings), and at other spots around Pine Bush. People began producing amazing photographs and even videotapes of bizarre objects they witnessed flying in the sky. Local newspapers started reporting peoples’ encounters, and some of the reports witnesses have given these papers are truly amazing.

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10:00 am – 4:00 pm Join us at the fair!! The family friendly event will offer a ton of fun for everyone For our serious sky watchers and anyone who may be curious! Visit the Lecture Tent located at Pine Bush Bed & Breakfast, Maple Ave. Testimonial discussions & sharing of experiences, & panels, each centered on Pine Bush and its UFO History

LIVE MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT AT TWO VENUESBandstand/Gazebo: EASY LISTENING Big Band, dancing, jazz & acoustic Stage: For those who want to ROCK!: 80’s, Country, Classic Rock, Alternative

KID’S CORNER with interactive games, attractions and activities located behind the gazebo!

Huge assortment of delicious food

1:15 pm The INFAMOUS ‘Alien and UFO Themed Parade’ marches through Town!

4:00 pm Cow Chip Bingo – Yes you heard us right! A benefit for the PB All Night Grad Party.. Tickets for sale in front of Hearts & Flowers by corner of Main & Maple. [email protected] Event Venue: 156 State Route 302, Pine Bush, NY 12566

5:00 pm Free Art Reception: An Other-Worldly themed Art Exhibit’ ! 121 St Rte 302 Pine Bush, NY

6:00 p.m. Cosmic Bowling!! at Walden Lanes, Rt. 52 in Walden

MAIN STAGE LINE UP9:00 – 10:00 AM DJ MUSIC /BAND/COUNTRY

10:00 – 11:00 AM “Tommy Brendel - Original Rock Guitarist” Rock Guitar

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM “Ric Skinner’s LOT 14 Band” Retro Progressive, Jazz Rock

12:00 – 1:00 PM Galea and the Galvanizers ROCK

1:00 – 2:00 PM Midnight Slim Featuring Laurie Anne” Rock Blues, and Country

2:00 – 3:00 pm “House of 80’s” 80’s Tribute, Rock & Dance Music

3:00 – 4:00 pm “Recap” Electronic Rock, Rap, Dance

GUEST LECTURE TENTLOCATED AT 215 MAPLE AVENUE ON THE

‘PINE BUSH HOUSE BED & BREAKFAST’ PROPERTY.

10:00 am – 11:00 am Thomm Quackenbush

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Aaron Kaplan

2:00 – 3:15 pm

Bill Wiand

3:15 – 4:30 pmSusan Zimmerman

FAIR DAY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS


One Times-Herald Record article told of a sighting by Pine Bush resident John Lewis, who videotaped a thin black object flying in the sky. “Lewis watched the object move slowly down-ward at a 45 degree angle for about five minutes,” the paper recounted. “Then he rushed for his video camera. The uniden-tified flying object was pencil-shaped and black with a long tail. There was not a glint of reflection from the sun. ‘Maybe it is a missle, maybe an asteroid,’ [Lewis] says. ‘I don’t know. It is beyond me. It’s not a plane, not a cloud.’” The Poughkeepsie Journal ran an article detailing the activ-ities of the United Friends Observer Society (UFOS), a support group founded in Pine Bush in 1993 for people who’d had encoun-ters with or were abducted by the aliens that frequent the town. Local Bill Wiand told the Journal’s reporter of his personal experiences with aliens. “I did recently have an invasion and it terrified me,’ he said. ‘It started like it always does, with the noise in my ears and it just kind of rumbles through. I couldn’t move my body, but I could move my eyes and I knew the room was filled with enti-ties.’” The article goes on to detail other people’s abductions, including one researcher who claimed that “‘They immobilized me and undressed me and put this device on my genitals and took a sperm sample.” In another Times-Herald Record article, a number of people shared their stories of odd occurrences at Pine Bush. Among them were the incredible recollections of Jim Smith, a Pine Bush resident and sergeant at Woodbourne Correctional Facility. He told the paper: “I’ve seen so many of the beings, I know exactly how they move. They’re different sizes, different shapes, but when you see them so much, you know they’re not of this earth. Not long ago, I saw this figure about six foot six and dressed in all black standing beneath the traffic light in Pine Bush. I said to Hilda, my fiancée, ‘What’s that woman doing?’ Hilda said ‘Oh my God, I thought I was the only one who saw the thing.’ When she moved, it wasn’t like walking. It wasn’t in frames either, like most of them move. In frames, they’re someplace

and then they’re suddenly in another place, like time-lapse photography. But this one moved horizontally. In Pine Bush, you see things you don’t expect. I’ve seen a cat with no head walking across the floor. It just had a piece of cardboard where the head should be. A lot of people in Pine Bush tell me they’ve seen that cat. But not everyone can see the cat or the beings. You have to be open to things like that.” These days, most people in Pine Bush are “open to things like that.” UFO encounters and other unexplainable incidents have become a fact of life in Pine Bush. People trade stories regularly––and a number of local businesses have embraced the town’s strange reputation. Butch Hunt’s barbershop on Main Street in Pine Bush features a UFO-themed sign hanging out front, and the interior is riddled with articles about sightings and photos said to capture images of unidentified flying objects. Another local business has gone so far as to name itself after Pine Bush’s reputation. A diner has opened with the name “Cup & Saucer.” In any other town, this would refer to a coffee cup and saucer. In Pine Bush, the sign outside the diner proudly displays a cup and a flying saucer––an alien craft hovers above the coffee cup. Not surprisingly, this diner has served as a haven for UFO enthusiasts, who flock there not just for food and drink, but to share stories of experiences, tips on the best locations to sight UFOs, and to otherwise network with others who believe Pine Bush is in fact a hub of extraterrestrial activity here on Earth. By all accounts, the UFO activity around Pine Bush has lessened considerably since its glory days in the 1980s and ’90s. Most attribute this to the development that has occurred in the area. The past twenty years have seen condos fill in what used to be farmland in the area, and as this has occurred, UFO sight-ings have decreased substantially. Other phenomenon are still reported as well, including sightings of strange shadowy figures, strange noises permeating desolate areas, flashing lights, and more. UFOs are still seen in Pine Bush much more often than they are in your average town, but not with the incredible fre-quency of the past two decades. You can read about all of New York’s unusual phenomena in our book Weird New York.

- Weird New York

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BY JORDAN WILKINSON

Yanni Paximadakis has driven to his grandmother’s home a hundred times. In 2013, the Pine Bush restaurant owner made a trip over to help her fix an appliance. On the way, he passed around one of the lakes in the park, just like he’d done a hundred times. “It just happened to catch my eye,” he said, recalling the night he saw what he believes was his first UFO. In Pine Bush, the hamlet’s small population is full of believers, some who have even claimed to have been abducted by strange life forces, or little green men with big, black eyes. Even for skeptics, events like the yearly UFO parade and the cheery alien paintings lining store fronts make guessing all the more fun. For Paximadakis, who was

never a firm believer, said that his first sighting was the result of his natural curiosity. Driving along the lake, he noticed the reflection of a hovering object, one that he said was about as large as a school bus. “I mean, I don’t want people thinking I’m a nut or anything, but when you see something that’s not supposed to be there, you look,” he said. For approximately five minutes, he said that he sat in his car, watching the massive object hover about 10 feet off the water, moving slowly toward him in his car. Pictures of the UFO are certainly eerie, even for the strictest of skeptics. Shimmering on the water’s surface, several white rectangles sit next to each other, resembling a larger panel of windows. Paximadakis flips through, showing them in order.

It takes a moment to notice, but as he zooms in, orbs begin to filter in and out of the windows, orbs that look like heads. Still unsure of what he was seeing, Paximadakis tried to engage the spacecraft, flashing his lights at it, prompting a strange sound. “It was almost like something dropped into the water, but it was still unlike anything I’ve hear before,” he said. “Then I realized, ‘Ok, I gotta go.’” This year, the proprietor of Olympik Guys Pizzeria and Gyro Grill has made sure to join his fellow business owners in Pine Bush, by painting a pair of smiling aliens on his restaurant’s windows. In the years since the sighting, he has yet to witness another UFO, but stands firm in what he saw. Like so many others during this year’s UFO parade season, he might just look a little harder.

Visitors in the night sky

Yanni’s mysterious image, recorded on his cell phone.


Come see an ‘Out of this World’ art show

An ‘Other-Worldly’ themed Art Exhibit, presented by the Crawford Arts Association, is taking place at the Town of Crawford Government Center until May 19. The exhibit is open weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. There will also be a reception on Fair Day, between 5 and 6:30 p.m. The public - Earthly and otherwise - is invited.Pictured at right: Bob Scully with an Alien friend


Photos by Jordan Wilkinson

Storefront throughout Pine Bush have been spruced up for the occasion, courtesy of Shawn Dell Joyce and the Wallkill River School. See if you can find these aliens.

Strange faces in the window


FOOD Fairview Concessions Claudia’s Doghouse Jo by City Concessions Angelina& Adrianna’s Ital Ices Gyro Express Regee Boy Jamaican Food Cheesecake Heaven Honeybrook Farms Cornacopia Concept Caterer Baby Dahl,s Catering The Ottrageous Cookie Company Ice Mother & Sons Annie’s Country Kids Kettle Corn

UFO NOVELTY Close Encounters Studios Alien Eyes RBK Creations an Gifts UFO’s to Go John Gwiozdowski East Coast UFO

MUSICIANS & SOUND Bob Keegan Doug Drossel Tom & Tommy Brendel Galea & the Galvanizers House of 80’s Jazz Pioneers

ENTERTAINMENT Tracin Arts Sacred Rose Visions DJ ERIC GUARINI Wonder Simplicity & Beauty in Portraits501st Legion / Star Wars

SPEAKERS & PRESENTERSLinda ZimmermannDr. Bill WiandThomm QuackenbushAaron

CRAFT / JEWELRY Herby’s Crafts G & G Imagine This Crafts by Mary Edie’s Pet Rocks One Crafty Lady Magick&Macabre Co RBK Creations an Gifts Perfectly Posh Mommys GirlHomemadeSoy CandlesCreative Gifts by Teresa Goats in a Coat With Wings Ethnic & Groovy Green Grass Boutique Amazing Grace Farm Carrie’s Creative Crafting Corner Diane Vega Essential Oils Gift Baskets Galore & More Lodes of Nature @ Stedners Such Nice Things by Kim

NON PROFITS Pine Bush Oyssey of the Mind Pine Bush Interact Club Pine Bush Invaders Pine Bush All Night Grad / Cow Chip Bingo Quest All Stars Will Spay Pets Girl Scout Troop 610 Pine Bush Lion’s Club Pine Bush Relay for Life/ ACS Girl Scout Troop 208 Pine Bush Women’s Softball Boy Scout Troop 02

ART D. Femiak Roger L. Phillips ezerd ‘eh-zird’ Lynn Garrett, Papillon Pottery Dave Hargrove Marguerite Violante Sandy Spitzer Crawford Arts Association Shawn Dell Joyce/ Wallkill River School of Art

SUPPORTERS Town of Crawford Fusion Graphix Town of Crawford Historical Society Pine Bush Area Chamber of Commerce Pine Bush Equipment Crawford Arts Association Walden Lanes OC Inflateables Sheldon Stowe All Things Delicious Imperial Jewelers Yesteryears Country Store Walden Savings Bank Pure City Healthy Vegetarian RestaurantHeaven on Earth Natural Foods Wagner’s Ice Cream & Snack Shack Fitness Works Pizza Plus Pine Bush Pharmacy Pudgy’s Pizza & Pasta Hermann’s Erie Hotel Rock City Academy Country Convenience Food Stores Carlos Ingrasci, Village Center Griffin Website Design John Kidd Photography R. J. Smith Realty Pine Bush House Bed & Breakfast Big Guy Media Wallkill Valley Times Shawangunk Journal Pine Bush Quarterly Judy Parsells Oriental House Olympik Guys Restaurant Pine Bush Pharmacy Just a Buck Pine Bush Library Cup & Saucer Diner

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