Crow's Nest Road near Donahoe Road. Stan Gordon image.
BOVARD, PA - FEB. 3, 2009 - A cylinder-shaped UFO hovered just 250 feet above the ground here in broad daylight as a man watched from his car in this small community just outside of Greensburg.
Ufologist Stan Gordon got the witness call soon after the event - which occured at about 1:30 p.m. He said the witness - a businesman who was traveling in the area - first saw the object on the opposite side of Route 30 from Greensburg's Westmoreland Mall - where the two-lane Donahoe Road winds behind a Sheraton Hotel into the country side.
The man was driving along Donahoe Road when he saw the object at a low level moving from his right to left. He made a left turn onto Crows Nest Road and stopped in the middle of the road to get a better look at it. The man moved a little further down the road and was eventually about 250 feet from the object, which hovered about 250 in the air.
The following is Investigator Stan Gordon's account based on witness testimony.
The 2009 year has started out with a detailed, low level daylight UFO observation. The incident occurred on January 3, 2009, at about 1:30 p.m., near the small community of Bovard, in Westmoreland County, which is located just a few miles from the city of Greensburg.
The witness is a businessman who was traveling through the area at the time. The man was driving his vehicle down Donahoe Road and was talking on the cell phone when he noticed, to his left, what he thought was an aircraft moving very low across the sky. The aerial object appeared to be moving over Bovard toward the tunnel, so it was moving from the right toward the left. The driver made a left off of Donahoe Road, and turned onto Crows Nest Road, from where the object could be seen ahead. He was so dazed by what he was observing, that he stopped in the middle of the road.
After the initial phone call from the witness, we met at the location of the sighting where I conducted the second interview . I was told that the object seemed to be hovering just above the trees and the railroad trestle. The witness watched the object hover, and was trying to rationalize to himself what this object was. The man described what he saw as appearing bright metallic, and something like a cylinder in shape, "kind of like a hot dog with a fin on the back."
The witness told me that he drove a little further down the road to get a closer look from where he could see the object unobstructed. The witness estimated that he was about 250 feet away from the object. He also felt that the object was also about 250 feet in the air.
As he watched, the object inverted itself. As it was explained to me, the object flipped up from the bottom to the top. The witness stated, "when it inverted, and the fin disappeared, it looked like a totally different craft." The object looked more like a saucer with some type of ridges or bumps, or rivets on it, which appeared to define the object. These structures could possibly have been ports, windows, or circles.
They were seemingly rounded, about 10 to 12 in number, and were evenly spaced. They were located toward the lower edge of the object, but apparently not underneath it. From the observer's distance to the object, he estimated it to be about 15 to 20 feet in length, and it did not appear to be very wide.
As the object hovered up and down, it dropped to about 150-200 feet in the air. It then seem to come to a complete stop. It continued to hover about 10 seconds over trees, then the object suddenly moved from a hovering level position, then moved to the left, then "in a backwards J-shape motion, it shot up approximately 50 to 60 feet" higher in the sky. After the object had accelerated, it moved off in the direction of Greensburg.
The duration of the entire observation was about two minutes. The witness was very upset after his observation. He told me that he became very shaky and nervous. After his sighting, the man went home and told his family about what he had seen. He said they looked at him like he was nuts. He said that by then, his body was so shaken and nervous, ''and my stomach was completely sick."
The witness had called in the initial report to see if others in the area had reported what he had seen. So far, this is the only report locally for that date.
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my mum saw an identical craft to this in portobello edinburgh in the mid seventies , my gran saw it too, she said there was no sound and no windows and it was just above the rooftops
Cool. I saw a flying silver disc a long time back in broad daylight. Wonder what they are? I took up an interest in physics afterwards to try and understand how what I saw was possible.
Does anyone find these sightings bizarre and unprecidented to say the least considering sightings have gone up 400% in the last couple of years? Ufo's are demonically connected in someway. To learn more about this phenomena, you need to check out L.A. Marzulli's site and blog to see why scripturally these things are manifesting themselves! lamarzulli.wordpress.com
They're called blimps, and regular people can buy them and fly them around via remote control. Google Hyperblimp, or do a youtube search for Hyperblimp.
You would think that Stan Gordon, astute investigator that he claims to be, would have considered this possibility. It is the most logical explanation. An untrained observer watching one of these silent, long, silvery, cylindrical objects from the ground could easily fool themselves into thinking it is larger, higher, and stranger than it actually is.
And yet no photos of these available.
Hmmmmm.....
There are plenty of photos of Hyperblimps, which fit the witness' description.
I'd also like to point out that it is physically impossible, the way his observation is described, for the witness to be 250 feet from the object while the object is also 250 feet from the ground. He'd have to be directly beneath the object, which he wasn't. Now I'm just spending way too much time bothering with this nonsense.
DVics, I think what they are trying to say is that he was 250ft away from the spot below where the craft was hovering moron, otherwise he would stated he drove his car under the craft which he did'nt. He sees something amazing and at risk to his rep reports it, just so morons like you can throw whatever debunk pops into your mind, and twist the words of the article at that. go read something that interests you, LOSER!
I personally feel that unless a person is intentionally lying or simply not able to accurately see an object due to it's being too far away for the individuals sight ability, that there is little reason to think they are so lame as not to know the difference between a blimp and an object not recognizable and odd.
The first reaction of most people is to try and figure out mentally what they are seeing. Whenever I see a craft my first reaction is to MAKE IT look like a known object...like a plane, balloon or lantern.
Obviously the movement and structure qualities of the object triggered that this was not a balloon or blimp to the witness. Why must witnesses always be considered morons??? Don't YOU know the difference between known objects, why wouldn't they?
The witness is giving his observations because he perceived the object as being different or unusual than anything he knew it might be. Therefore, hello, unidentified.
It is a real hoot to me for people to want pictures when the first thing a picture is assessed as is Fotochopped! The incident was 2 minutes long. Where's your camera right now? Not everyone tethers themselves 24/7 to cellphones and cameras!
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Cliff, you obviously get a little hot under the collar. Care to re-read the article and notice where it states "The man moved a little further down the road and was eventually about 250 feet from the object, which hovered about 250 in the air." That is impossible. The witness was mistaken in that respect, why shouldn't I assume he could have been mistaken in other areas of his observation and description?
I didn't have to twist a thing. I'm not trying to debunk, simply pointing out one, very likely, explanation for this sighting. I never considered the witness a moron. I was suggesting that maybe his observation was flawed. Humans are imperfect, and we can easily fool ourselves. I've done it. This witness could be wrong. Isn't that possible? This could have been a sighting of a Hyperblimp, isn't that possible? That is certainly more likely than this being some unknown object floating in the air for some clandestine purpose? Some BIG MYSTERY? Get a clue. Someone was playing with his hyperblimp!
DVics you obviously have alot of passion on the subjest as well considering you have posted 3 times now supposedly on a subject that you dont have any interest in accept to try and discredit it. Why dont you admit to yourself the only reason why you are here is to argue with people who believe in something you do not.
"The witness estimated that he was about 250 feet away from the object. He also felt that the object was also about 250 feet in the air.
Its just a small word misconception, the witness never stated the craft was directly above him, and if it had been i think he would have said it.
When I made a great discovery about UFOs that "Aliens live in our Earth's atmosphere"
and put this article on internet with drawings of UFO's spacecrafts from different star systems,
which I see in the sky every day,
I thought that this discovery will create a great interest not among the people for whom it does not matter,
but for so called experts in UFO, "UFO Hunters". And it turns out that none of the experts on UFO
did contact me. What is more interesting, that most of the UFO experts or Hunters never saw
UFO themselves, and I offer them this opportunity to see hundreds of UFO in the sky in any place
with their own eyes, and they silently rejected this opportunity. At least they could send one person
to check my finding whether they are real or phony. Even that did not happen.
Dear UFO hunters if you are so passionate about UFOs why you don't show interest in
my discovery which is 120% bulletproof.
You are fighting for disclose of government secret documents on UFO but in reality by keeping silence
about my discovery you behave the same way as government. The question is are you really interested
in UFO existence or you are more interested in making money on their existence ?
I hope that eventually your scientific interest in UFO will overweight your conflict of interest in business.
Sincerely
Ilya
Cliff: you are missing the point of my comment. I did not say he was under the craft, I said he would have had to have been under the craft to have it be both 250 feet in the air AND 250 feet from him. I don't care to argue about this. My passion here is that people are missing the obvious: that this was likely the sighting of a common, recreational blimp, and not that of some mysterious UFO.
That's all. Sorry I ruffled your feathers pal.
DVics "I don't care to argue about this." Good then go take out your blimp and go play with it. See if you can fool some people with it and have a nice life...
OK, if the witness is 250 feet away from directly beneath the object and looking up at an angle to approximate a 250 foot elevation at the location, yes he would, technically, be further than 250 feet away. This is a salesman, not an amateur model rocketeer. You can fiarly assess the elevation of an object by knwoing the linear distance on the ground to directly below it and calculating the angle you are looking at it. i.e., at 250 feet away, looking at it at a 45 degree angle, you would technically be x distance (Do the math if you really care.) So, DVics, you are technically correct. Please place feather in your cap. Does this mean it is definitively a Hyper blimp? No. Spacecraft? No. The U stands for UNIDENTIFIED. could be ET; could be Chuck Yeager. Could be the mind trying to matrix unknown data.
It seems you won't believe anything until a spaceship or military experimental aircraft lands on your house, with video and 100 witnesses you have personally known 10 years, while the pilot gets out and snaps a picture (polaroid, to avoid photoshop) with him, you and the craft. Of course, it'd probably be an oversized HyperBlimp.
ROFL!
So a business man who carries no mobile phone with a camera? Its amazing that with the amount of digital cameras around today (built into laptops, mobile phones etc..) there are never any pictures of these sightings, sorry but i dont believe you.
And Ilya Stavinsky, where are your pictures you see them every day, or does your method involve going into a trance to interact with these aliens on a different plane?
to thedon: Can you in the night sky make a picture on moving object the signal lights of which one can notice only under focused observation ? I don't have such sensitive camera.For this reason I have drawn what I see in the sky and what everybody can see if they observe closely the night sky.
If you have doubts in my discovery I can personally help you to find UFOs as I described in my article. By the way I didn't say pictures of UFO in the article.
Sincerely
Ilya
Thedon,
I changed pictures to drawings in my article. Sorry you was write. (English is my second language.)
thedon - Is it possible that this salesman was sitting there thinking "What the $%^& is that!?" instead of saying, "hm, there sure are going to be skeptics running amok and to protect my reputation as a budding UFOlogist, I'd best get me a better camera phone or a professional Canon SLR" It wouldn't matter, even then some would need the already mentioned evidence, say a ship's/craft's/Hyper Blimp's landing pad on the forehead, to actually believe it could be true. Either way, it could still be Chuck Yeager or ET. It could be an experimental military thing.
As for "...there are never any pictures of these sightings,.." Uh, WHAT? Have you never seen ANY pictures of UFOs? Try GOOGLE. Yea yea, Photo shop, blah blah blah. Of course there are frauds, but that is why there is independent research. Take Ilya up on his offer. Maybe you can see something you can't explain.
Thedon and lvninjas.
It is not the point that I don't have camera, the point is that there is no such sensitive camera which can record AFOs that are on my drawings.
Read below from
"UFO Spotting & Recording Tips
Photographing UFOS" site
"Still cameras are handy, but are not suitable for all recording of UFO's, especially at night. UFO's are not always bright illuminations that stay around long enough to click a photo of. They are usually (but not always) fast moving dimly illuminated objects at high or very low altitudes just above tree or roof top. Under these circumstances a still camera is somewhat useless."
Thanks for advice,
Ilya
Truly happy to find something about Pennsylvania sightings. I thnk our local Pa area has hidden this info really well from us. I had been interested in this information since I was a kid, but I never heard of this or O'Dale (anna hayes material says this,) and (robert Collins info says about the Kecksburg, Pa incident was covered up as "a meteor" So funny, they do not fly Level or Straight like this did.UFO. How did we in PA miss this??? OH forgot, AP and Media Are controlled. HENCE the lies that OMG it is a Railroad lantern with a small battery, under the water, and OMG the lantern stayed lit HOW many hours in the Big OLE pond???? WOW what a bunch of liers we have in the military and the Media that are all controlled by the "FEW." I think our missing and kidnapped children have to do with the UFO's and the Military, taking our children and brain-washing them for future happenings. Yep. I plan to look into this. I need help. Will you help me?? Children WE are coming, hang in there.
My wife, & I our grand dougther saw a long cylander type craft in july 2010 we were fishing on sand lake Mchigan & it came over the to of us. it looked like a large airliner but ha no wings at all. it was traveling very fast like a jumbo jet it was silver in colar
I saw a cylinder type air craft about the summer of 2005 over Corbin, KY. It was flying due South. I was alerted to the craft by the sound of an ultralight. The aspect ratio was about that of a large tomato juice can and it appeared to be open on both ends but I could see nothing inside. I would estimate it to be about 80 feet long. There was no sign of a wing or fin. It appeared to be a smooth metallic cylinder. I contacted an experimental aircraft club in Knoxville but they had no such craft and had no idea about the craft.
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