FUN STUFF---CROTON AND THE UFO BUG -PART ONE

Back in the 60's and 70's--and a bit beyond it seems---Croton had been especially bitten by the UFO bug---per many of the village's old-timers and some scattered articles here and there. (More on that another day.)

Sightings out at the Point were often common--strange lights were the main culprit---some folks theorized this was merely illegal midnight dumping at the landfill--and nothing much came of all the occasional hoopla in the end.

For a time, however, someone who went by the pen-name of "DJPS Kittens"--and fancied himself the author of the next CHARIOT OF THE GODS or some other Great American novel--tried in vain to get the Starlight Drive-In to feature the work of Reinhold O. Schmidt (click on the image from 1961/1962).

Perhaps that was just as well. Schmidt was a fraudster and convicted embezzler who was one of the more obscure UFO contactees of the 1950s. You can read about him here.

And besides, the Starlight seemed to be interested in other fare for the years in question: EverythingCroton: MORE WHAT'S PLAYING AT THE STARLIGHT DRIVE-IN, 1960-1963

There will be more.

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