Product Details

• Actors: Philip Imbrogno, Scott Carr, Bruce Cornet, Salvatore Lauriola
• Directors: Philip Imbrogno, Salvatore Lauriola
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: March 8, 2000
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004SPXR
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #652,667 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Identified Flying Objects, May 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: UFO File: The Hudson Valley Sightings [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Although some of the UFO footage included in this documentary could possibly be classified as footage of "UNIDENTIFIED Flying Objects", many of the Objects are easily identified as aircraft. In one of the videos, the background music pauses long enough for the viewer to hear the whine of what is obviously a jet engine, in another, you can see the pilot turning on the airplane's landing lights, illuminating part of the fuselage. In the worst of these "UFO" video clips, one can easily make out a brightly lit aircraft rudder with the Virgin Atlantic Airways logo on it, probably on approach to Newark airport.

There are only three people interviewed in the video, none of whom relate any verifiable information, such as names of any of the witnesses of the Indian Point incident for example. Between the night shots of airplanes represented as UFOs and the wealth of incorrect aviation related technical information presented by the interviewees, it's extremely difficult give any of the information put forward in this video the weight of credibility. The video seems have been made primarily to promote books written by one of the interviewees, Phil Imbrogno.

The video is interesting only as a good example of either a poorly produced hoax or the earnest work of some very gullible people.

Look! Up in the sky! Flying machines with lights!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hoping For More, July 6, 2000

By 

Ron Cecchini (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: UFO File: The Hudson Valley Sightings [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Having grown up in the Hudson Valley, and having graduated Pine Bush High School in '86, I was a bit enthusiastic about getting this video, esp. given all the stories surrounding the PB area that I've been reading about in recent years.

(oddly enough, in the early 80s I was utterly unaware of what was supposedly going on all around me; needless to say, but in all my years in Pine Bush I never had a single "encounter" of any kind.)

The video is mostly comprised of interviews with Phil Imbrogno, Bruce Cornet & Scott Carr (names associated with the Hudson Valley & Pine Bush "phenomenons"), as well as several camcorder videos.

At any rate, the production is slick for an (presumably) amateur video, but $40 for a 45 minutes is a bit steep, although that wasn't my main criticism.

My biggest criticisms were that the numerous videos shown throughout the 45 minutes were all of "benign" & utterly non-fantastical night-time lights in the sky -- you can say I was thoroughly unimpressed with the videos in this video.

Regarding the interviews:

For reasons I won't get into here, I have a real problem with Bruce Cornet's testimony regarding anything; although, he was relatively "tame" in the interviews shown here.

Phil Imbrogno also doesn't impress me as a highly skeptical person, but even if he does believe the majority of the stories he recounted in the video, he added enough qualifiers to his words that I really couldn't fault him.

Scott Carr seems to be a person much like myself: highly skeptical of the majority of the stories, but also highly interested ... for whatever our personal reasons may be.

Finally, given the uniqueness of this video (there aren't many videos on Pine Bush or the Hudson Valley), I personally would really have enjoyed seeing more of the "personal" side of the entire phenomeon, including interviews with the numerous people who claimed to have had "close encounters" of the various kinds -- I recognize that showing those kinds of interviews would certainly only add to the "sensationalism factor" of the video, and thus detract from its overall credibility (comments about Bruce Cornet notwith- standing), but I would really like to see a docu- mentary on the entire phenomenon of the HV/PB area.

On the plus side, personally I was fascinated by the story Imbrogno recounts regarding the major, multiple-witness sighting over the Indian Point Nuclear Facility.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Was Hoping For More, June 27, 2000

By 

Ron Cecchini (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: UFO File: The Hudson Valley Sightings [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Having grown up in the Hudson Valley, and having graduated Pine Bush High School in '86, I was a bit enthusiastic about getting this video, esp. given all the stories surrounding the PB area that I've been reading about in recent years.

(oddly enough, in the early 80s I was utterly unaware of what was supposedly going on all around me; needless to say, but in all my years in Pine Bush I never had a single "encounter" of any kind.)

The video is mostly comprised of interviews with Phil Imbrogno, Bruce Cornet & Scott Carr (names associated with the Hudson Valley & Pine Bush "phenomenons"), as well as several camcorder videos.

At any rate, the production is slick for an (presumably) amateur video, but $40 for a 45 minutes is a bit steep, although that wasn't my main criticism.

My biggest criticisms were that the numerous videos shown throughout the 45 minutes were all of "benign" & utterly non-fantastical night-time lights in the sky -- you can say I was thoroughly unimpressed with the videos shown.

Regarding the interviews:

For reasons I won't get into here, I have a real problem with Bruce Cornet's testimony regarding anything; although, he was relatively "tame" in the interviews shown here.

Phil Imbrogno also doesn't impress me as a highly skeptical person, but even if he does believe the majority of the stories he recounted in the video, he added enough qualifiers to his words that I really couldn't fault him.

Scott Carr seems to be a person much like myself: highly skeptical of the majority of the stories, but also highly interested ... for whatever our personal reasons may be.

Finally, given the uniqueness of this video (there aren't many videos on Pine Bush or the Hudson Valley), I personally would really have enjoyed seeing more of the "personal" side of the entire phenomeon, including interviews with the numerous people who claimed to have had "close encounters" of the various kinds -- I recognize that showing those kinds of interviews would certainly only add to the "sensationalism factor" of the video, and thus detract from its overall credibility (comments about Bruce Cornet notwith- standing), but I would really like to see a documentary on the entire phenomenon of the HV/PB area.

On the plus side, personally I was fascinated by the story Imbrogno recounts regarding the major, multiple-witness sighting over the Indian Point Nuclear Facility.