OBERNBURG — Just a week after the Sullivan County Democrat published a story about a UFO sighting in Hortonville, the Pentagon published its findings in a 12-page UFO report that spanned 80-years of government investigatory efforts.

The report concluded that the US is not secretly hiding alien technology or extraterrestrial beings from the public.

However, since the Democrat article was published on March 1, three people have contacted the newspaper to tell their stories of sightings.

A Callicoon lady, who asked not be identified, said she has been seeing UFOs “for 60 years.”

“I’ve seen them fly over my house and they appear to follow the brook,” she said. “Just last week there was a very bright light above the trees and when I went outside it moved away.”

Ninety-year-old James Greier of Obernburg has a far closer experience.

Greier had just opened his bar, Little Texas Ranch, about a year earlier when he experienced his sighting in 1962.

“It was the middle of winter on a cold winter night,” Greier recalled. “I had just closed the bar and it was so cold I decided to leave the horses in the barn and went over to close the barn door.

“I looked over the hill and this thing was huge,” he said. “It was perched on top of the hill and I could see it spinning.

“It had pastel lighting and it was not spinning too fast, it was like a top,” he said.

“It covered half the hill. I was mesmerized,” Greier said. “Then it went over my head without a sound. It moved to the next mountain. It stopped there and all you heard was a ‘woosh’ when it moved.”

Like many people who witness UFOs, Greier said, “I didn’t want to tell anybody.”

However, Greier’s sister, Sue, and husband, Terry Krofcheck, were driving to Mileses on that fateful night.

“My sister said, ‘We saw the same thing,’” Greier said. “Her husband Terry said, ‘What are all those lights’ and stopped his truck to take a look.”

According to Greier, that is when the motor cut out on Terry and Sue’s truck.

“And when it [the UFO] took off, then his truck came back on,” he said.

Greier said another neighbor, Gerald Feigenbutz, saw the same thing but didn’t tell anyone for at least “a year or two later.

“A lot of people see stuff but are afraid to say something,” Greier said. 

Greier also recalled driving to a farm in Roscoe to buy hay. The two got talking and somehow the conversation shifted to UFOs.

“We got ‘em over here,too,” the farmer told Greier.

The farmer told Greier that he saw the lights up there in the field and he took his truck up to investigate. 

According to Greier the farmer told him “it lit the whole field up” so he raced back to get his son.

His son would not go up to the field but the next day when they returned to the field “they were a dozen cows short,” the farmer said.

Another lady, who works in Callicoon, said she remembers seeing a UFO when she was a kid growing up in New Jersey.

She said that she and her sister were going to bed when a bright light outside awakened her.

She looked outside and  saw people on her lawn, “picking up sticks and rocks.”

They told her not to be afraid and she told them she wasn’t.

She said one of the people pointed at her and she collapsed.

The next morning she woke up laying under the window and thought she may have had a bad dream.

She ran outside and checked her walkway, which they had lined with rocks, and one was missing.

Luckily she said, the local sheriff and mayor had seen the object, too.

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