Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast
Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast
Podcast Description
The Restoration Obscura Field Guide is a podcast where photography and history converge to uncover the stories time tried to erase. Through restored images, archival research, and immersive storytelling, we explore the hidden corners of the past—from the backroads of Upstate New York to forgotten places across the nation and around the world.
Each episode uses photography and historical restoration as a lens to preserve memory, rediscover lost narratives, and bring overlooked history back into focus. These are the stories that deserve to be remembered—told with care, curiosity, and an eye for the forgotten.
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Content Themes
Episodes focus on themes like forgotten history, urban exploration, and restored photography, with specific topics such as the Hudson Valley UFO sightings in the 1980s and techniques for interpreting urban landscapes. The podcast emphasizes unearthing lost narratives and offers insights into how history is embedded in everyday environments.
The Restoration Obscura Field Guide is a podcast where photography and history converge to uncover the stories time tried to erase. Through restored images, archival research, and immersive storytelling, we explore the hidden corners of the past—from the backroads of Upstate New York to forgotten places across the nation and around the world.
Each episode uses photography and historical restoration as a lens to preserve memory, rediscover lost narratives, and bring overlooked history back into focus. These are the stories that deserve to be remembered—told with care, curiosity, and an eye for the forgotten.
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Episode 2: The Thing in the Sky – The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings of the 1980s
This episode of the Restoration Obscura Field Guide Podcast traces the mysterious wave of UFO sightings that overtook New York’s Hudson Valley in the 1980s. These weren’t fringe accounts or fantasy. Over a decade, more than 5,000 credible reports described massive, silent, triangular crafts gliding low over towns. Witnesses included police officers, pilots, engineers, and everyday commuters. Some said the objects followed cars. Others said they hovered silently, blotting out the stars.
We revisit the night of March 24, 1983, when over 300 people called in to report the same strange object. We hear firsthand testimonies from across the region and explore theories ranging from local pranksters to military experiments—none of which fully explain the scale or persistence of the phenomenon.
But the Hudson Valley was not alone. This episode also looks back at other well-documented incidents, from the 1947 Roswell crash to the 1952 radar sightings over Washington, D.C., from Rendlesham Forest in England to Kecksburg, Tehran, and the Phoenix Lights. These stories share uncanny similarities—credible witnesses, detailed reports, and no definitive answers.
We also go deeper—into the long history of skywatching. Long before radar and satellites, the Haudenosaunee and Lenape peoples recorded celestial events in stories and stone. We’ll talk about their star lore, ancient alignments in upstate New York, and what we may have lost in the era of light pollution and orbital clutter.
This episode doesn’t seek to prove or disprove—it’s about documenting the experiences, patterns, and historical context behind the reports. These stories remain part of the public record, part of a collective memory that refuses to fade.
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