Camp Singley Stories – UFO’s

At dusk, the dark purple silhouette of Lempster Mountain looms over the western shore of Highland Lake, like a brooding guardian—or maybe just a mountain with secrets.

Lempster Mountain.

An odd, mysterious place.

Not long after acquiring Camp Singley in 1977, we started hearing stories—strange, unsettling stories—about eerie goings-on up there at night. The kind of stories that make you glance over your shoulder and wonder if you really did see something move in the sky. The kind of stories that, oddly enough, haven’t changed much over the decades. Take this one, for example, from July 27, 2014:

A group of friends were sitting out on a deck in Washington, NH, about ten miles up Lempster Mountain. It was after 9 p.m.—a quiet, starry night. They were city folk, marveling at the country stillness, when someone spotted a strange orange-red orb in the southeast sky. At first, they thought it was a meteor, but meteors don’t usually hover. Then it moved—slowly, deliberately. As it passed overhead, they realized there were two lights, one larger and brighter than the other, connected by a dark shape. Seven people witnessed this, and one even snapped a photo (on a non-smartphone, no less, proving they were serious about their technology choices).

That’s just one of many published reports about UFOs near Lempster Mountain. But I don’t just take a stranger’s word for it—I ask around. And it turns out, plenty of folks have their own stories.

Like Ada.

Ada lived just down the lake from Camp Singley. One night, she woke to her dog barking—odd, since her pup never needed a midnight bathroom break. Groggy but dutiful, she shuffled to the door in her robe and slippers. But when she opened it, the dog—who had been so eager to go out—froze. Completely refused to step over the threshold.

That’s when Ada saw it.

The tiny island across the lake was bathed in an eerie white light. And hovering just above it, humming softly, was a glowing, orb-shaped object.

Ada gasped and called for her husband. But before he could stumble to the door, the object—zoom!—vanished into the night.

In the direction of Lempster Mountain.

Ada isn’t one to make up wild tales. She’s intelligent, down-to-earth, and not at all the kind of person to see an airplane and shriek, “ALIENS!” So when she says she saw something, I believe her.

And then there’s Jim.

Jim—a respected businessman, a pillar of the community, a guy who does not have time for nonsense—was driving on Route 31 one winter night when, suddenly, the road was flooded with an intense light. He slammed on the brakes. Looking up, he saw a pulsating, roundish object hovering just above the trees.

“It was so close I could’ve thrown a stone and hit it,” Jim later told a Boston TV station.

So why Lempster Mountain? Why are all these unexplained sightings happening here instead of, say, Mount Washington or Washington, D.C., where aliens could at least do some sightseeing?

I have a theory.

Over a decade ago, the fine people of Lempster approved a plan to build a wind farm. Today, twelve massive wind turbines—each 196 feet tall—catch the mountain breezes, producing 24 megawatts of electricity.

That’s enough power for about 10,000 homes.

But Lempster has fewer than 500 homes.

So, I’m just saying… where’s all that extra energy going?

Hmmmm.

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4 of the 12 windmills on Lempster Mountain

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