It had all the trappings of any popular UFO story you might see on television.

Soldiers searching the forest for debris, mysterious men in black cautioning witnesses to remain

silent, an entire town left in fear from their harrowing visitation.

Today, we're going to dissect the reality of one such case to see just how far apart

the facts are from what the television reported.

And as many such cases often do, this one all came down to a single imaginative young

man.

The Berkshire County UFO is right now on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, the Berkshire County UFO.

Today's story comes from the Berkshire's, a hilly region of western Massachusetts, known

for its arts communities, its food scene, and its beautiful fall foliage.

But much more recently, it's come to be known for something else, thanks to the Netflix

TV series Unsolved Mysteries, which portrayed it as the setting for a famous UFO event,

witnessed by people across the whole county, way back a half-century ago.

But oddly, if you're a fan of UFOology, it's very likely a story you've never heard

before.

Well, how can a story be at once notable enough to attract the attention of a major TV

network, and at the same time be so virtually unknown that it slipped through the cracks

of most of the UFO literature?

Today we're going to dig in and find out, if not what happened on that night, where

the story came from.

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