![]() ![]() The dead silence was broken by a chorus of loud crickets and frogs.Īfter that, Reed isn't sure what happened. The car came to a stop and everything seemed "really calm," Reed said, and there was a shift in the barometric pressure. Once the car was in a clearing, Reed said, it was flooded in light with an amber glow on both sides of the dirt road. He was riding in a station wagon with family - his mother, grandmother and brother - crossing the covered bridge on their way home when Reed said his grandmother looked back to see a "self-contained glow" behind them that seemed to move through the trees. Reed was 9 years old on that September night in 1969 when, he and others say, they had their close encounter. Roswell is renowned as the site of an alleged 1947 UFO crash. the other donated by Ben Hansen of the "Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files" and Travis Walton, the inspiration for the science-fiction movie "Fire in the Sky." ![]() The memorial is flanked by two benches: one donated by Reed and the International UFO Museum Research Center in Roswell, N.M. 1st, 1969, which engaged the Reed Family, which has been established." The plaque reads, in part, "This Governor's Citation in recognition of the off-world incident on Sept. Charlie Baker's office embedded on one side and the Massachusetts seal on the other. The monument, which sits at the end of the Upper Sheffield Covered bridge, a replica of the historic Old Covered Bridge, is a 6-foot-tall, white concrete block bearing a plaque from Gov. In 2017, two benches and light fixtures were added to the area. The marker was moved 30 feet, to Pine Island Farm, which abuts the Upper Sheffield Covered Bridge. Some people said the marker detracted from the beauty of the historical replica of the 180-year-old bridge. The memorial was installed in 2015 and moved a few weeks later, after town officials discovered that it had been placed on town property. This isn't the first time the memorial's location has been an issue. ![]() "The town has bylaws, and if we let one place put something up, then why can't someone else? I don't want that to happen," she said in April. If anything is to be placed on town property, she said, it needs to be approved by town officials. The nature of the memorial's location became apparent to the town after a land survey. In a previous interview with The Eagle, LaBombard said the memorial should be moved because it is on a town right of way. ![]() In January, the Select Board gave LaBombard permission to send a notice to the memorial's owner(s) that the memorial, as well as the benches and lighting around it, would be moved by the town if they were not picked up before May. On Friday, Town Administrator Rhonda LaBombard said she had no comment on the memorial, which she had sought to have removed. The UFO memorial was slated for relocation by the end of May, but the testament to the "nation's first off-world/UFO incident" hasn't budged, and it's not clear why. Reed's 1969 sighting has been the subject of many television shows - Discovery Channel's "Alien Mysteries," Travel Channel's "Paranormal Paparazzi," "Our New England Legends" - and six documentaries/films. Calls to Select Board Chairman David Smith Jr. Select Board member Rene Wood confirmed that a film crew had approached the board during its June 4 meeting about shooting in town, but declined to comment further, noting that it is the Select Board's policy to have questions directed to the chairman. Reed shared with The Eagle communications between himself and associate producer Miguel Bituin III, talking about the History Channel's interest. Reed, who has been the most vocal about what happened that night, said he had been contacted by Prometheus Studios, the production team behind the show. ![]()
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