Pine Bush’s UFO Club Ends Hiatus, Resumes Regular Meetings

Bill Wiand knows he was abducted by aliens. “Since I was a very, very young boy, they would come, take me out of the house, go through the window. I could actually feel the screen and see the trees glow.”

He struggled finding people to talk to about instances like these. He asked, “ If you went home and told your parents or your husband that you felt that you were removed from your home and encountered aliens on a spaceship, what would they think?”

In 1993, however, he found a place to turn. The United Friends Observer Society (UFOS) took out a small ad in a local paper and started meeting, according to The Pine Bush UFO and Paranormal Museum. Wiand recalls people from across the world coming to visit their group and see for themselves what Pine Bush had to offer. The town has been dubbed “the UFO capital of the North East.”

As its members grew older and interest wained, the club stopped meeting regularly in 2023. Wiand says COVID played a role as well. At the beginning of 2025, however, the museum asked them to come back. Wiand says:

“I was working with the director and he reminded me that there’s still a lot of people that are looking for answers… A lot of people came in and they were very interested in UFOs (and) wanted to know what was going on in the Pine Bush area. Because they go to the museum, they see all the local history that’s going on, and they want to be part of it.”

As of March, they’ve resumed meetings. The Pine Bush UFO and Paranormal Museum hosts UFOS the first Wednesday of each month at 7 pm.

Image: Bill Wiand (Credit: United Friends Observer Society (UFOS))