“I came away not understanding what exactly was going on in Pine Bush but knowing there was something unusual - mind-blowing really - happening up there,” he says. Over the next five years, Burns began regularly visiting the area and fell in with a core group of locals who came out West Searsville Road, ground zero for skywatching in the 1990s, every night. “When I started asking people in town where to spot UFOs, the responses I got were all over the spectrum, from are-you-crazy looks to ‘Oh yeah, you go up Hill Road and take a right.’” “So I jumped in the car and headed over.”Īrmed with low expectations and a map, Burns says he showed up at the Dunkin’ Donuts in Pine Bush on a night in 1993. “After I read Ellen’s book, I looked up Pine Bush on a map, and realized, ‘Hey, that’s not too far from where I live,’” says Burns. In fact, that’s how Burns, who grew up and lives in New Jersey, found out about the tiny town and its outsized reputation.
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Full of photos and vividly-detailed personal experiences about author Ellen Crystall’s encounters in and around the Pine Bush area, the book caused a whole generation of amateur skywatchers to make their way there. He points to the 1991 publication of the book Silent Invasion as the catalyst that really put Pine Bush on the map for the UFO obsessed. Burns, who runs the Pine Bush Anomaly Archive, an ongoing oral history project with a mission to collect any and all information about Pine Bush’s unique history.īurns - who prefers to go by his first initial due to the stigma sometimes involved in chasing the paranormal - has recorded hundreds of first-person accounts over the years. “I’ve got newspaper articles from the 1950s and people who grew up in Pine Bush as kids giving accounts of seeing that classic saucer shape in the sky,” says C.
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