NUFORC Sighting 27452

Occurred: 1996-06-15 19:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-02-01 21:01 Pacific
Duration: 10 min.bu
No of observers: 2

Location: Butler, PA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

huge round black object with huge lights spotted in sky over Butler Co. PA

This is so weird. I had just told my new husband of my seeing a UFO in 1996 when we decided to watch some tv and found a program on UFO's on the History Channel. Well, when it aired the report from a pilot over Pittsburgh I was screaming because I had just described the same thing to my husband! Please take me seriously - I was very disappointed that nobody had ever gotten back to me as I did report the sighting to the Post Gazette newspaper. What I witnessed was so amazing. We were just driving along a rural road in my friends pick up truck - there was a light in the sky - we both saw it but didn't comment because we just assumed it was a plane - until a few minutes later when we realized the light had not moved! I remember commenting "what in the world?" at about the same time my companion came to the same realization that something just wasn't right. I am delighted to have this forum to report this to as I have thought about it so often during the years. Anyway, my friend just happened to have a pair of binoculars in his truck and told me to take a look at the light through them - which I did AND I COULDN'T BELIEVE MY EYES!! Without the binoculars the light was just a light but with the binoculars it all became clear! My first response was "Oh My God, Oh My God, Oh My God"! I shouted for my friend to stop the truck - to pull over because I was dumbstruck! I was looking at the most magnificent sight - a huge round object with huge round lights - two of which were lit - the lights had what I called "hoods" over them - making them look like the hanging traffic lights. The lights would go off and I could see that they would come on at a different location on the object and then back to where I was looking. Tonight as I was trying to describe to my husband what I had witness I used the word "energy" - as in I could feel a great "energy" within this object - as though it were seething with power but I did not really feel frightened - just in awe. Well, as we watched the UFO program I saw where the pilot ! over Pit tsburgh described what he has seen as "pulsating" and I just had the chills as that would exactly describe what I had seen. The object was black - a very dull black and it was huge! I really could not tell how big it was until I realized that the lights were coming on on the other side of it and then I was able to ascertain that it was huge - it was blacking out a huge area of the sky! I could not imagine why more people had not reported seeing it but then I realized that without the binoculars it just looked like a light in the sky. When I called the newspaper I was told nobody else had reported it. In the time it took me to hand the binoculars over to my friend it was gone - however, he did see the light earlier. So, this was my experience and now I am convinced that others saw it too - especially the pilot. I wish I could remember the month - I cannot and I had just told my husband that I was pretty sure it was 1996 and then I heard the pilot had seen one in 1996 and I am now convinced that I saw a UFO. Thank you for listening to my story.

NUFORC Note:

Date of incident is approximate. PD

Posted 2003-03-21