PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshires are a being featured in a new episodes of "Unsolved Mysteries" that are being launched this summer by Netflix.
The first episode is "Berkshires UFO" and will premiere on Wednesday, July.
This episode was partially filmed last year in various parts of the Local History Department at the Berkshire Athenaeum.
"According to the show's producer, the Berkshires UFO episode is so strong that it was chosen as the lead episode," said the library's acting Supervisor Ann-Marie Harris.
The library also helped to supply some history and information on an unidentified flying object sighting and encounter that occurred in September of 1969 in Sheffield, said Harris, an incident that the Great Barrington Historical Society recognizes as "historically significant and true."
"In that incident, it is reported that Thom Reed, his brother, mother and grandmother were mysteriously taken from their car by a UFO," Harris said.
Netflix, a subscription streaming service, will be launching six episodes in July and six episodes in October.
The story's been featured on television several times before and is featured at the International UFO Museum And Research Center in Roswell, N.M. The Reeds' claim of an encounter with aliens was the pilot episode of "Alien Mysteries," a Discovery Channel Canada show, in 2013. The Reeds, brothers Matt and Thomas, say they've had four encounters with aliens, three in the 1960s, one of which included their mother and grandmother, and a fourth by Matt in 2009 in Indiana.
The brothers say they have documentation of sightings by others during the 1069 event and radiation and magnetic anomilies around the times of the encounters.
Thomas Reed had installed a monument to the encounter on Boardman Street in Sheffield in 2016 that lead to several years of controversy; the town ordered it removed off public property and then found the second location was in a public right of way. It was hauled away a year ago.
The Great Barrington Historical Society & Museum in 2015 formally inducted the UFO story, noting the number of witnesses of unidentified flying objects that included call-ins to the radio station around the time the Reeds' story of the 1969 encounter.
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Gov. Healey Touts Transportation Bill in Lenox
By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
Gov. Healey speaks to the press on Tuesday at Lenox Town Hall after a closed meeting with town and state officials.
LENOX, Mass. — Gov. Maura Healey believes Berkshire County deserves a "better deal" from the state than it has gotten for decades.
"I accepted on the outset that we need to do a better job as a state of making sure that we take care of Berkshire County and Western Massachusetts," she said, adding that she feels the state has not done this over time.
On Tuesday, she and other state officials touted the state's proposed $8 billion transportation plan that includes support for rural roads, culverts, and small bridges. The visit began at Lenox Town Hall with a roundtable closed to press and concluded at an overhauled culvert in Becket.
"We came here today to listen to our local officials, to listen to local communities," Healey said.
"…We know that roads and bridges are in need of repair and modernization, residents need better transportation, communities need better protection from severe wind and flooding, and ultimately, this region needs and deserves more attention and more investment from the state to these needs than ever before."
She claimed this is what the new transportation funding plan is all about.
The Healey-Driscoll administration has proposed an investment of $8.4 billion over the next years to put the state's transportation system on strong new foundations.
"This includes a 50 percent annual increase in Chapter 90 funding for local roads that would deliver greater equity for Western Mass communities, including the Berkshires, for example, a 62 percent increase for Lenox and I want to thank [Town Manager Jay Green] for serving on our Chapter 90 working group," Healey said.
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