Invasion on Chestnut Ridge Page #5

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very upset over that,

started yelling at him and said

"we're calling the police,"

and he ran to his

car and they said,

"he sped out so fast, he

almost turned the car over."

That's the last time

anybody saw that fellow,

and we never found

out who he was.

[Narrator] The incident at

the Superior mobile home court

was extremely strange

yet ambiguous enough

to resist explanation.

It would become far more

clear that the United States

government had knowledge

of the incidents

being reported around

the Chestnut Ridge,

and knew who to

talk to about them.

On September 20th, 1973, Stan

Gordon received a phone call

from a man who

identified himself

as a US Government official.

The caller indicated a strong

interest in the Bigfoot

sightings taking place

in Westmoreland County,

and then, to Gordon's surprise,

asked that any convincing

evidence be sent to a

facility in Washington DC.

The spokesman even

provided a mailing address

and phone number

for what he called

the Bureau of Sports Fisheries,

Birds and Mammals Lab.

Less than two weeks later,

Gordon would be contacted by

and would meet with

two men from the office

of Congressman John H. Dent.

The visitors wanted

to learn more about

Gordon's research group

and their findings

and were courteous enough

that Gordon kept in contact

with them while the wave

of sightings continued.

Later on, Gordon would be

stunned to discover that the

government may have taken a

decidedly more active approach

in their information gathering.

So while we're

interviewing this witness,

backs years later, probably

in the 1980s, and we bring up

the fact we might have to

hypnotize him again and he said,

"why do you wanna

hypnotize me again?"

And he goes on to say that

these two men came to his home

to interview him and he thought

they were part of our group

and we said, "well, tell

us about what happened."

He said, "well, these

two guys come to my home.

"One's in a dark suit, one

in an Air Force uniform.

"The one in the Air Force uniform

has a briefcase with him."

They wanted the witness

to tell the story

of seeing the UFO

and the Bigfoot.

And then apparently

he was hypnotized,

and they told him

"thank you very much,"

that they believed what

he was telling them,

that they would be

in touch with him.

He never heard from

this fellows again.

[Narrator] While Bigfoot

seemed to be lumbering

through the woods of

Southwestern Pennsylvania,

if eye-witness testimony

is to believed,

the skies above the Chestnut

Ridge were filled with

all manner of lights, craft

and inexplicable shapes

flying under their own power.

In August of 1973 alone,

witnesses reported seeing

an hourglass-shaped object,

a sphere dropping fiery debris,

a circular craft with

illuminated windows,

a bright orange ball, red,

green and white lights

that looked like

Christmas tree bulbs,

and a boomerang-shaped object

all floating through the air.

Another really

significant UFO case

was September 3rd, 1987.

And this was on a major highway,

Route 30 near Greensburg.

And that evening, numerous

witnesses in the area,

including law enforcement,

they see this huge cylindrical

object, metallic,

about 300 feet long,

only about 300 feet up,

with multiple lights on it.

I don't recall anybody

reporting any sound.

It's moving across,

coming across Route 30,

across from the

old Greengate Mall,

where there is a

power substation.

So this object is moving

horizontally across the sky,

and then it turns vertical

in the sky and when it does,

all the power in the area

goes out for a short time.

Behind that mall was an annex

where they had movie theaters

and that was all blacked out,

and when the engineers went

to examine it, to investigate,

they found all three of the

master fuses had been blown.

Something that's

apparently unheard of,

and they were very interested in

what caused those

fuses to go that day.

[Narrator] In

September of 1973,

the aerial activity

seemed to intensify

over specific locations

in Derry township.

At one of these locations

called the Bell Farm,

a family and their friends

claim multiple eerie encounters

with both UFOs and

hairy humanoids.

Investigator Barry Clark,

a colleague of Stan Gordon,

spent a number of nights

staking out the Bell Farm,

and soon found himself at

the center of events that,

by his own admission,

he found haunting.

(dark atmospheric tones)

Three times we got a call

from different people saying

that if you looked up in

the sky at 10 o'clock in the

eastern part of the sky,

you would see a real

bright, large star,

just all of a sudden turn on.

So, the one night I left

interviewing one family,

and I went back out to the

farm, sometime after 10,

we were sitting there

maybe 10 minutes after 10,

all of a sudden there

was this bright star.

And we were watching it and

all of a sudden that thing,

it would turn blood-red and

then it'd go back to silver.

Turn blood-red,

go back to silver.

And then there were five flashes

like an arc from a welder,

and they were about

a second apart,

and then there were just

multiple small silver objects

went to it that looked like

bees going to a beehive,

waiting their turn to go in.

But when they got there, they

either reflected the red,

or they turned red.

So we stood there and

watched it in awe.

The guy's wife, she

screamed, jumped in her car.

She wouldn't come back out.

And I said, "there's something,

it's doing something."

And then we realized is

was actually coming down,

it was getting bigger, and

at that point we all left.

[Narrator] After the incident

at the Bell Farm, Barry

Clark decided that he was

finished with the paranormal.

Shaken by what he saw, he never

investigated another case.

But evidently, the paranormal

was not finished with him.

After stepping away

from the research group,

Clark experienced an

episode of missing time

while making what should

have been a short drive

between communities

on the Ridge.

This sensation that only

a short time has passed,

when in fact many

hours have elapsed,

is most commonly linked to

alien abduction scenarios.

Clark does not suggest that

he was abducted, but neither

does he have any answers

for what happened to him.

Only the disturbing

reality of time

for which he cannot account,

of which he has no memory.

And along with that

comes the suspicion that,

when one peers deeply

into the darkness,

there's actually

something looking back.

I've had some things go on

through my life after that,

and what bothers me

is I have a grandson,

who was born in 1986,

and from the time he was like

eight, nine, 10 years old,

he kept telling us about

people that were coming

into his bedroom through

a hole in his ceiling.

Now, he has had lapses of time,

you know, can't explain,

which I have had.

I've had incidents where

I have lost an hour,

an hour and a half, he doesn't.

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