The Thom Reed UFO Park

We have never cited "Alien Abduction" We were taken from our car by Government

The Thom Reed UFO Incident of Sept 1, 1969:

The First Off-World UFO Event Officially Archived as Historically True in America. Adjudicated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 2013-2015. Berkshires UFO, is his trademarked name/brand representing his historic incident.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT:

CORRECTIONS TO THE PUBLIC RECORD*

*Reed Family UFO Incident - September 1, 1969*

*United States Historical Record - Commonwealth of Massachusetts*

*Issued by: Thomas E. Reed, aka Thom Reed*

*Date: April 8, 2026*

*Subject:

Verifiable corrections to misinformation regarding Commonwealth of Massachusetts archiving, Historical Society proceedings, _Unsolved Mysteries_, and United States history*

I am Thomas E. Reed, the individual formally inducted into United States history by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the September 1, 1969 off-world UFO incident. I own the Berkshires UFO trademark. The following corrections are based on verifiable Commonwealth records, Historical Society documents, and federal documentary evidence.

1. Governor's Citation:

*Was mailed to Tennessee, Confirming Non-Residency and Rubber-Stamping Historical Society’s Adjudication*

The citation issued by Governor Charles D. Baker and Lieutenant Governor was amended, not rescinded. The original citation, issued circa late October 2015, omitted the incident date of September 1, 1969. It was amended to include said date and reissued as a corrected citation on November 3, 2015.

The corrected citation bears documentary proof of non-residency: it was also mailed by the Governor’s office to Thomas E. Reed at his Tennessee address. This physical evidence on the Commonwealth’s own document confirms Reed was not a Massachusetts resident, had no presence in the Commonwealth, and did not appear in person to receive it. The citations were issued ministerially, rubber-stamping the Historical Society’s February 6, 2015 formal adjudication to archive the Reed family UFO incident into United States history. *Sources*: Corrected citation dated November 3, 2015 bearing Tennessee mailing address, Governor’s office transmittal records, United States Postal Service records.

*2. Historical Society Formal Archiving via 2013-2015 Inventory Process: Legal Research Conducted at Roswell*

The Historical Society concluded a formal inventory process from 2013 through 2015. During this multi-year evidentiary proceeding, legal research was conducted at the International UFO Museum Research Library, City of Roswell. An attorney mined the Roswell archives for information pertaining to the Reed family incident and forwarded that research back to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to help clarify evidentiary questions involving the Reed family’s September 1, 1969 UFO incident. On February 6, 2015, Thomas E. Reed was officially inducted and formally archived into United States history by the Historical Society. The induction letter declares the September 1, 1969 Reed family UFO incident as the first off-world UFO incident officially archived as historically true in America by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Research assistance provided by the International UFO Museum Research Library, City of Roswell, and Kessler Law Firm. *Sources*: Historical Society induction letter dated February 6, 2015, Historical Society formal inventory process records 2013-2015, Kessler Law Firm research correspondence, the Roswell UFO Museum & Research Library, Roswell City Councilman, Emmy award-winning News Anchor Heather Kovar, the Boston Globe and Fox PrimeTime.

*3. Tom Warner: Not a Witness, Not Berkshires UFO*

Tom Warner was not a witness to the September 1, 1969 Reed family incident and was never part of Berkshires UFO. The Berkshires UFO is based on the Reed's documented history, not personal interests or resentment. The Reed family incident has been recorded since 1967. Tom Warner first became aware of the incident in 2014 - 2015 while serving as a volunteer at the Historical Society when the Reed family was interviewed during the archiving process. No contemporaneous 1969 records reference Mr. Warner. *Sources*: Historical Society records dated 2015. No contemporaneous 1969 records reference Tom Warner.

*4. United Nations Symposium - October 2, 1992*

On October 2, 1992, the United Nations held a symposium where the Reed family incident was mentioned in support of other cases and General Assembly 33/426. Attorney Robert Bletchman presented the Reed family UFO incident. Dr. Howard Reed, Thomas E. Reed’s father, died on the anniversary of the incident following the UN presentation. *Sources*: _Roswell Daily Record_ coverage, MUFON documentation and Death Certisicate.

*5. Documentary Proof of Non-Residency: Governor’s Citations Mailed to Tennessee; Commonwealth-Initiated Contact; No Massachusetts Residency Since 1976*

Thomas E. Reed did not petition the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, never contacted the Governor’s office, never spoke to any member of the Governor’s staff, and was not physically in Boston at any time during the 2013-2015 inventory process or citation issuance.

Reed has not resided in Massachusetts since 1976, a period of 39 years prior to the 2015 archiving. In 2015, Reed maintained no Massachusetts residency, domicile, tax status, voter registration, property interest, or legal presence. Reed resided in Tennessee, approximately 1,000 miles from Massachusetts. The Commonwealth’s own records prove this: the corrected Governor’s citation dated November 3, 2015 was mailed by the Governor’s office to Reed’s Tennessee address. This is documentary proof on the face of the official record that Reed was a non-resident and was not present to lobby, petition, or influence the process. The Historical Society director independently initiated contact with Reed to inquire about documents regarding the well-known 1960s incident involving his family. The Historical Society’s 2013-2015 formal inventory process, the February 6, 2015 induction, and the Governor’s citations resulted solely from the Commonwealth’s and Historical Society’s own research and evidentiary review. The Governor’s citations were ministerial acts, rubber-stamping the Historical Society’s adjudicated decision to archive the event into United States history. No petition, lobbying, request, or personal appearance was made by Reed.

*Sources*: Corrected citation dated November 3, 2015 bearing Tennessee mailing address, Governor’s office transmittal records, United States Postal Service records, Historical Society correspondence and induction records 2013-2015, Historical Society director’s records confirming initiation of contact, Commonwealth of Massachusetts records, Reed family residency records 1976-2015.

*6. _Unsolved Mysteries_ / Netflix: Breach of Contract and Misrepresentation of Evidence*

The original signed contract between Thomas E. Reed and _Unsolved Mysteries_ / Netflix included handwritten, mutually agreed upon riders. Those riders guaranteed: 1) inclusion of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts state documents confirming the September 1, 1969 incident involved the Reed family only, and 2) mention of Dr. Howard Reed, Thomas E. Reed’s father, who died on the anniversary of the incident following attorney Robert Bletchman presenting their UFO incident at the United Nations on October 2, 1992. After both parties signed, _Unsolved Mysteries_ producers unilaterally crossed out these contract riders. Producers then removed the filmed state documents from the final episode and omitted any mention of Dr. Howard Reed or the October 2, 1992 UN presentation. The episode did not disclose the February 6, 2015 Historical Society induction or the November 3, 2015 corrected Governor’s citation.

Instead, the episode featured Tom Warner, who was not present in 1969, had no involvement with Berkshires UFO, and only learned of the incident in 2015 as a Historical Society volunteer. The aired episode contradicts both the signed contract terms and the Commonwealth’s official records archiving the Reed family incident as historically true. *Sources*: Original signed contract with _Unsolved Mysteries_ / Netflix including crossed-out riders, documentation of filmed evidence not aired, Historical Society induction letter dated February 6, 2015, corrected citation dated November 3, 2015.

*7. Tom Warner’s Complete Legal Exclusion from the United States Historical Record of the September 1, 1969 Reed Family Incident*

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, via Governor’s citations dated October 2015 and November 3, 2015, and the Historical Society via formal induction letter dated February 6, 2015, entered Thomas E. Reed, aka Thom Reed, into United States history as the sole individual of record for the September 1, 1969 off-world UFO incident. The induction letter declares this case as the first off-world UFO incident officially archived as historically true in America by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This determination was not casual. The Historical Society concluded a formal inventory process from 2013 through 2015. This was a multi-year, evidentiary proceeding wherein witness testimonies were solicited, submitted, vetted for authenticity, and entered into the official case file of record. As well as Thom Reed's Polygraph test and truthful findings. Under Commonwealth procedure and historical standards, any bona fide witness to the 1969 incident would have been memorialized by name, credited, or listed as a possible witness in the Commonwealth’s records or on Historical Society letterhead.

Tom Warner is completely excluded from the United States historical record. He is not listed as a bona fide witness by any organization in writing. His name appears on no Commonwealth document, no Historical Society letterhead, no induction record, no state archive, no official witness list, and no finding of fact produced during the 2013-2015 formal inventory process.

This legal exclusion exists despite the undisputed fact that Warner was employed as a volunteer at the exact same Historical Society during the entire material period of research, review, adjudication, and formal induction of Thomas E. Reed. He had direct access to the process and the principals. Yet the Historical Society and Commonwealth, after three years of review, made a deliberate determination of fact: Tom Warner is not part of this United States historical event.

While other witness testimonies were submitted, vetted, and entered into the official case file, Tom Warner is not listed as a bona fide witness by any organization in writing. Although a personal statement attributed to Warner may exist in an unverified file, it was expressly rejected for inclusion, holds no evidentiary weight, and was not adopted by the Historical Society or the Commonwealth as part of the official United States historical record established from 2013-2015. Unadopted statements do not constitute history. The legal and historical record is exclusive to Thomas E. Reed.

Any post-2015 claim by Warner to standing in this adjudicated matter of United States history is void ab initio and constitutes a collateral attack on the Commonwealth’s own determination of historical fact. To credit such a claim is to substitute private assertion for the Commonwealth’s three-year evidentiary proceeding. The United States historical record speaks, and it is silent as to Tom Warner.

*Sources*: Corrected citation dated November 3, 2015, Historical Society induction letter dated February 6, 2015, Historical Society formal inventory process records 2013-2015, Commonwealth of Massachusetts archival records and findings of fact, Historical Society official witness list and case file, Historical Society employment/volunteer records 2015.

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*CONCLUSION*

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts conducted a three-year formal inventory process from 2013-2015, including legal research at the Roswell archives, and made a determination of historical fact. That determination entered Thomas E. Reed into United States history as the sole individual of record for the September 1, 1969 incident.

The Governor’s citations bearing a Tennessee mailing address are documentary proof of non-residency and confirm the ministerial nature of the citations. Tom Warner is completely excluded from the United States historical record. Any assertion to the contrary contradicts the Commonwealth’s own adjudicated findings.

These are the facts. The documents speak for themselves.

*Thomas E. Reed*

*BerkshiresUFO.com*

*Concord, Tennessee*

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The History behind our event & The Alien Abduction connection Born & Fueled by sloppy Media Coverage

The, Thom Reed UFO Incident is the Berkshires UFO. As the Berkshires UFO was simply the name of a show based on Thom Reed’s UFO incident. His web address was used as the name of the Netflix episode.

The Reed incident is the 1st UFO Encounter in the United States to be Officially Archived as Historically True. This is why Unsolved Mysteries contacted Reed. The Netflix Berkshires UFO (S1 E5) was solely based on the Reed Family Incident of Sept 1st, 1969. We are not witness to it, as it's our incident. The name of the show was simply a rebranding of the Reed Family Incident. With all documentation listed on this website.

Due to sloppy news coverage, however, the referencing of the Sept 1st Reed Family account has become distorted.

We were REMOVED from our car by individuals either employed and/or those working with our Government via the space race. We have NOT once referenced an Alien abduction, despite some very sloppy news coverage. This of coerce is in reference to being taken from our car on September 1, 1969. However, we did encounter an off-world presence, and off-world vehicles/crafts.

Connections:

Space Race, Roswell UFO Research Library, United Nations.

The Thom Reed UFO Park is located on a plot of donated land that was the site of the Reed family's 1969 UFO encounter. Sitting just off of the Housatonic River in the Town of Sheffield, this public park serves as a memorial to preserve and commemorate the unique history that took place there.

The Reed family made history again in 2015 when former Massachusetts governor Charles Baker signed an official citation (shown below) recognizing the Reed family's "off-world incident". This act represented the first official step in UFO disclosure in the United States.

For more information on the Berkshire UFO incident, see the Wikipedia article below, as well as the countless news articles, documentaries and official documents provided throughout this site and the internet in general.

The Thom Reed - UFO Park:

How it arrived, and how it's been miss stated and misinterpreted.

I will start by saying I’m very grounded and matter a fact when it comes to the UAP subject, as our incident in the 1960s aka “The Berkshires UFO” which would become the first, off-world incident officially archived into U.S. history as historically true. And with that, comes a responsibility, as were also displayed in several museums, and highlighted in the International UFO Museum in Roswell, NM. GT Barrington's WSBS Radio also aired our event back in 1969, and why they too are part of the Reed Family Incident, as it’s formally named, and/or archived in the Roswell UFO Museum, and State. As to how this all came to be. It was largely due to our family’s published and/or circulating headlines in the 1960s about our UFO incident, coupled with our Diners core customer base, being employees and engineers working on the space program, for Sprague Electric and/or GE. More specifically, the conversations about our encounter with those working on the space program, while they used our Diner for late night and/or, more private conversations. This coupled with my polygraph test, old news articles, and WSBS FM, broadcasting our incident, was enough for the Historical Society to send an attorney to mine for source documentation at the Roswell research library in NM. This also made the cover, of the Roswell Daily Record. The law firm verified our mention at the United Nations in support of, General Assembly 33/426, in 1992 as well as the death of my father on the anniversary of that hearing. The historical Society later inducted and officially archived our incident, as did Governor Charles D. Barker with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The documents were also sealed by a magistrate of the courts. In short, the conclusion was that our incident and Diner’s unique history had collectively altered the natural progression of the entire county; therefore, our event was historically true. Our official induction and archiving was covered live by Emmy award-winning News Anchor, Heather Kovar, ABC News NY, and the Boston Globe, in 2015. Again, why the UFO Park means so much to those involved in the UFO/UAP subject, and why over a half dozen TV shows and documentaries have been filmed right here, in the Thom Reed - UFO Park.

Family

My father was a lawyer and a politician, my mother a horse breeder and radio personality for WKZE FM. As for me, I founded Miami Models, a renowned South Beach international talent management group, which protected the interests of child models and actors. My career also consisted of engineering multi-million dollar, surveillance systems for Vicon Industries, Honeywell and Simplex integrated systems. To include, surveillance systems for American Airlines, KMD/Kaman Aerospace, Naval Base’s, and Government buildings which included biometric surveillance and ATM Backbones, via GSA contracts? In closing, Congressmen Tim Burchett and I are pretty much neighbors and following our more recent lunches it appears I’ll be getting more involved in the UAP hearings in Washington regarding the particulars of our events in Sheffield. With hope to share our visit from Homeland Security and Keypoint government solutions.

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The 1960s news article

Clarifying the Berkshires UFO on Netflix

More info:

The Thom Reed UFO Incident of Sept 1st, 1969 is the Berkshires UFO. The Netflix, Unsolved Mysteries' episode was solely based on the Reed family UFO encounter as it had just been officially archived into U.S. history, in 2015.

The rebranding was unfortunate as it added confusion. The source documents and/or State issued documents can be found at: www.berkshiresufo.com

The Reed family incident, AKA the Berkshires UFO, is our families' incident and our families' alone, as all government documents cite. My late father, Selectman and Attorney Howard Reed, saw our incident cited at the United Nations in support of GA33/426 back in 1992. This led to the establishing of our UFO Park and its sponsor, the International UFO Museum in Roswell. My father lost his life on the anniversary of said address, and that is why our encounter resurfaced again in 2006. Unsolved Mysteries had filmed reenactments about my father. Some included a courtroom setting, with other reenactments filmed in my family’s stretch limousine. However, all would be left on the cutting room floor, along with the State Documents that Unsolved assured us would be shown.

So, to clarify, the Berkshires UFO was just the name of a TV show based on our incident that would unfortunately include someone who colorfully finagled their way onto the episode.

The Berkshires UFO name www.berkshiresufo.com was and remains my website. It was acquired long before Netflix began filming, as it was and will be the title of our memoir/book in 2026. Where a lot of this will be detailed.

Cindy, from Unsolved, had called me a year prior to filming and asked for names and numbers of those who might be interested in participating in said episode. With that, I gave her the number for the GBHS, as I had been interviewed by the director, and briefly spoken with Mr. Warner some years earlier. Mr. Warner was a volunteer assisting in the office and often jumped on the line when Debbie had me on hold or left the room. That is when and how Mr. Warner first became aware of the 1969 incident, as he stated more than once while taking notes (Common knowledge) My family's official research file, and witness statements were also in the office he shared. There was an opportunity there, and he took it. Many have pushed Mr. Warner to submit to a polygraph test however Mr. Warner declines.

However, to often we see individuals tarnishing the integrity of an incident, either by sensationalizing it and/or falsely inserting themselves into something they were not a part of. This history-making incident with its worldwide attention is no different and has to deal with hoaxers and unfair press. A shame, really, as it’s U.S. history. The root of the September 1, 1969, UFO incident has everything to do with my family's Diner in Sheffield, from its ties to the space race to witnesses who gathered there to talk in private.

If interested, a good source of reference is the International UFO Museum in Roswell, NM. as our incident is highlighted there. Interesting fact: the law firm that assisted the State of MA in the mining of source documentation used their UFO Research library to mine for source documents regarding our case. These documents were then sent to the historical society and the governor's office.

Emmy Award-winning news anchor Heather Kovar, from NY, originally covered the State induction and interviewed the Historical Society as well. WSBS Radio, is another solid reference as they aired our incident in 1969. There are also News Articles posted on the Berkshires UFO website, along with the State issued and/or Government documents. Yes, there were over 250 witnesses with 40–50 returning for the unveiling of the UFO Monument in Sheffield, in 2015.

I have never, NOT once, said I was abducted, I have made it very clear we were all removed from our car by what appeared to be the government, and taken to what resembled a large airplane hangar. Also, there were cattle mutilations in 1969, and what were said to be crop circles, these were all covered by local papers in 1994, 2012, and 2013, and all in Sheffield. What is also unfair is the press writing there were no 1960s news articles. See above.

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