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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PCTV Pizza Fundraiser Successful in Second Year
By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
KJ Nosh won Judge's Choice for best overall pizza.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — More than 170 people gathered for the love of pizza and community television on Thursday.
Pittsfield Community Television's second Eatza Pizza fundraiser was held at Berkshire Hills Country Club, featuring pies from seven local eateries. Hungry attendees sampled pizzas ranging from classic cheese to veggie, meat, and even hot honey topped.
The event raised about $4,300 — topping last year's total of about $3,500.
"PCTV and WTBR are nonprofit organizations. A lot of people don't realize that because they think of other types of organizations as nonprofits. We're in that same vein where we need to raise money," Executive Director Shawn Serre explained.
"And we do have some regular sources of funding but a lot of those are tied to cable revenues and cable revenues, as everyone knows, are going down so that means that we have to work even harder at events like this to make make up the difference."
PortaVia, located in Dalton, took home the People's Choice title for the second year in a row, being coined the "reigning defending undisputed" champion. In addition to a few classics, it offered best sellers such as black garlic pizza and the "Not Your Granny's Pie!" with grilled chicken, granny smith apples, and bacon.
"It's a great honor. Our team really needed a win like this right now," owner James Boland said. "We're happy to be a part of it. I think it's a well-done event, and we're honored to be a part of it."
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