Boomerangs in the night sky
Beginning in late 1982, residents along New York's Hudson Valley witnessed silent, low-flying V-shaped craft with brilliant lights. Police switchboards were swamped by calls describing objects as large as football fields.12
Parachuters or secret planes?
Skeptics proposed ultralight flyers or advertising aircraft. Investigators from CUFOS tracked dozens of reports and dismissed hoaxes as insufficient to explain the scale. The sightings tapered off after 1986 but remain a key wave in American UFO lore.345