Anyone familiar with reported UFO sightings in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in 1979? I saw one as I was going on my morning paper route. I will never forget it. It was saucer shaped, like two of them glued together, bowl sides on the top and bottom. It made no sound. It was silver, but not really gleaming or anything. It appeared directly in front of my eyes in less than a second. I stopped in my tracks in the middle of the road, watched it, did not move or make a sound, as it hovered above the trees about a mile away, directly at 12:00 in front of me. I remember cars driving below the treeline, slowly, but not pulling over or anything, so I'm not sure they saw it. It was about 5:30 AM, very few cars on the road, the sun not fully up yet. The object sat completely motionless, hovering in mid-air. I saw no windows, or spinning center or anything. I watched for about 5 minutes, tops, before it zipped away, and I mean ZIPPED away faster than I could follow it, straight across the horizon, out of my sight. Nothing man-made about this sucker!
Oddly enough, I felt energized, and alive as I watched it, feeling actually privileged to view this thing. I did not run and hide behind a tree or anything, did not feel the slightest tinge of fear whatsoever. I actually felt like this thing wanted me to see it. I was alone, it was dead center in front of me, so how could I not feel like it wanted me to see it? I did not run home after it left. I was kind of high from the experience (I was 14), so I dutifully finished my paper route, went home and told my parents. My mother listened, half-smiling, waiting for me to tell them it was a joke. Maybe the fact that I was not scared in anyway left them sceptical. My father said nothing when my mother looked at him and asked him what he thought. I admit I had been a bit of a practical joker on a few occasions, but when they didn't say they believed me, I just said strongly to them, 'I don't care if you don't believe me, but I DID see a UFO!', and I went back the hallway and got ready for school. I never saw it again.
My mother kept asking me if I really saw it or if I was joking, and my response was always the same. YES, I saw this thing and you can ask me 12 years from now, and I'm sure I will recount everything exactly the same, as I will never, ever forget seeing it. Three days later, as I was getting ready for school early in the morning, my mother called out to me to come into the kitchen. She had just turned on the radio to Pittsburgh's radio station KDKA during the Jack Bogut show, and they had been talking about this UFO sighting in Greensburg (about an hour from Pittsburgh). They had recieved several callers, all saying they saw the same thing, at the same time on the same day! I said 'See, I TOLD you I saw it.', and she had no choice other than to believe me. The natural debunking questions came from her and some friends, though I did not tell that many people about it. I said 'NO, this thing moved across the sky faster than I can blink my eyes. And it made NO sound. No humming, low-pitch sound, nothing.' It could NOT have been anything man-made, from this period in history anyway. It could not have been a weather balloon, it was no motorized flying toy, it was not suspended or projected into the air by anything.'
What do I think it was? I have no idea. I'd wager it was either an extraterrestial ship, or perhaps even ourselves coming back from the future to check up on us. Maybe time travel field trips for the kids, or something! Sounds like a joke, huh? It's not. I am dead serious.
There is nothing on the eath that can move as fast as what I saw. Nothing. Not light, not a hummingbird, not sound. I mean, a bullet can move that fast. But, a bullet can not stop dead in the air, hover without falling, and then take off as fast as it arrived.
It's funny, but I watch these Discovery, SCI-FI, A&E and History channel shows on TV, with their silly eerie low bass music, or 50's theremin music, and laugh. Especially at the serious scientists and sceptics cockily saying 'Show me the proof, show me the physical evidence!' , and while I don't blame them (Where IS the ironclad video or physical evidence?), I am the one smiling, and saying from my arm chair, 'No, YOU tell ME what I saw was man-made, muthaf***a! YOU prove to ME that I did not see a UFO!'. Trust me, if they had had portable movie cameras cheaply available in 1979, I would have loved to film this UFO to show everyone. And who do they have as their sole 'official supporter' of UFO's on these shows? "Physicist" Stan Friedman, (or is it Frieberg?), a man whose appearance resembles drunken comedian Foster Brooks, or a really bad actor in those 50's horror films (crazy, unkempt hair and beard, wild bulging eyes, sharp bushy eyebrows that cast him as almost the lunatic.). HE is our defender??!! I like the guy, but he doesn't exactly help our cause. And John Mack from Harvard professor fame, who really was helping our cause because he was a genius and very down-to-earth, and not crazy seeming in any way. And Mack is killed last year very suspiciously by getting hit by a car. Very curious.
ANYWAY, I was just wondering if anybody out there was familiar with any UFO sightings from summer 1979 in the Southwestern region of Pennsylvania.