"Bay State Residents in Recent Years Have Reported Hundreds of UFO Sightings"

UFO sightings

By Peter Reuell
MetroWest Daily News
11-7-05

     The truth is out there.

      But...in MetroWest?

      Though it may not seem like a hotbed of alien activity, Bay State residents in recent years have reported hundreds of UFO sightings, including dozens in MetroWest.

      From Framingham to Franklin, folks have reported seeing everything from strange lights in the sky to actually encountering flying saucers, complete with alien beings inside.

      Despite Hollywood's focus on sites like Area 51 and Roswell, N.M., Peter B. Davenport, director of the Seattle-based National UFO Reporting Center, said UFO sightings are an international phenomenon.

      The group's Web site includes reports from all 50 states, as well as Canada and far-flung locales including Latvia, Bangladesh and Outer Mongolia.

      "This is a phenomenon that's not limited to the Southwest," Davenport said last week. "It's important to recognize that UFOs are real objects and they are capable of covering immense distances over a short period of time. They (can) go wherever they wish, and they do."

      But while the NUFORC's site lists 50 MetroWest sightings over the last three decades, local officials say exactly what folks are seeing remains a mystery.

      "Very rarely will we get calls from someone who sees something unusual or unexplained in the sky," Framingham Police spokesman Lt. Vincent Alfano said last week.

      "We'll look. If somebody said I see something strange over Learned's Pond, we would call the area car and tell them to look...and if they see anything we would do something."

      Exactly what they'd do, though, is tough to say.

      "I've been here 18 years and I cannot remember a call of anyone stating that," he said. "Certainly, investigating anything of that magnitude is far beyond the resources of the Framingham Police Department."

      "You basically...you log it," Milford Police Chief Thomas O'Loughlin agreed. "Sometimes there is an answer. People see lights and this and that and it turns out the state police helicopter was up in that neighborhood."

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