NUFORC Sighting 48483

Occurred: 1978-06-20 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-12-26 16:35 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: St. Clair, PA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Aircraft nearby

Glowing sphere of light near St Clair - Burma road fire tower late 1970's-1980 era

This is my recollection of an event that happened when I was about 20 years old... almost 30 years ago now... so I can't put an exact date on it.

One summer night, between 1977-1980.... I read a short article in the local news paper that claimed that 2 individuals recently witnessed a UFO event up the local mountain near a forest fire tower. Everyone was familiar with this area, and it was a nice night out, so we decided to go up there for a few beers and who knows, maybe we would see something. We were there for maybe an hour or so, and noticed lights shining upon the fire tower. It kind of looked like a spotlight, or maybe a cars headlights. Nothing unusual, so we weren't scared and we climbed the fire tower to get a better look. When we got up near the top, we looked over in the nearby valley, and a yellow glowing ball just floated up from down within the valley, no sounds. Just a very erie looking glowing ball. And then it hovered there for a few minutes as me and my friend were amazed by this. I would estimate the object to have been about 3/4 of a mile away, hard to comment on it's size at that range. It could have been 10 ft across... could have been larger 20-30 ft maybe. The interesting thing was that we knew exactly where it was...

Since we know the area so well. It came up with the mountain behind it, so it was not some very distant plane or star being mistaken. You could clearly see it hovering there with the mountain behind it, less than a mile away.

Down in that valley is an old abandoned strip mine that is flooded with water to the top. Anyway, after a few minutes we noticed the flashing lights again, coming from behind us. And in the distance we could see what looked like some sort of plane coming in towards us.. very fast, with blinking lights. We were directly between the glowing ball & the plane, so it was coming right at us at low altitude. Within a few seconds what appeared to be a triangular shaped jet passed right overhead maybe 200 ft above us, and towards the glowing sphere, and we ran down the steps of the fire tower scared to hell. We got into our vehicles and got out of there pronto, a little shaken and amazed at what we just witnessed.

It would be interesting to see if anyone else comes forward that witnessed this back then, as apparently there were other sightings here at that time.

NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD

Posted 2006-02-14