New Episode Out Now: "The Thing in the Sky – The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings of the 1980s"
Something strange happened over New York’s Hudson Valley.
Not once. Not briefly. But again and again—for nearly a decade.
In the 1980s, the skies above towns like Brewster, Yorktown, and Fishkill became the stage for one of the most documented UFO waves in American history. Silent, triangular craft. Lights in formation. Objects that hovered. Followed cars. Blocked out the stars. And never made a sound.
Episode 2 of the Restoration Obscura Field Guide is live.
This isn’t a story about aliens. It’s about what happens when thousands of people witness something they can’t explain—people with no connection to each other, but with near-identical stories. Police officers. Pilots. Engineers. Parents. Kids. And what happens when the official explanations fall flat.
We trace the reports, revisit the key nights—like March 24, 1983, when more than 300 people called in sightings—and explore how these stories became part of the region’s fabric. We also pull back to examine earlier incidents in Roswell, Washington, Tehran, and the forests of England, and how Indigenous star lore and ancient skywatching still echo in the mystery.
This episode isn’t about belief. It’s about history. Documentation. Memory. And that human need to look up and ask: what was that?
If you’ve ever stood outside at night and seen something you couldn’t quite explain… you’re not alone.
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Every photo has a story. Some stories come from the sky.
What is Restoration Obscura?
The name Restoration Obscura is rooted in the early language of photography. The camera obscura—Latin for “dark chamber”—was a precursor to the modern camera, a box that transformed light into shadow and shadow into fleeting image. This project reverses that process. Instead of letting history fade, Restoration Obscura brings what’s been lost in the shadows back into focus.
But this is more than photography. This is memory work.
Restoration Obscura blends archival research, image restoration, investigative storytelling, and historical interpretation to uncover stories that have slipped through the cracks—moments half-remembered or deliberately forgotten. Whether it's an unsolved mystery, a crumbling ruin, or a water-stained photograph, each piece is part of a larger tapestry: the fragments we use to reconstruct the truth.
History isn’t a static timeline—it’s a living narrative shaped by what we choose to remember. Restoration Obscura aims to make history tactile and real, reframing the past in a way that resonates with the present. Because every photo, every ruin, every document from the past has a story. It just needs the light to be seen again.
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