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Pennsylvania Ufologist Stan Gordon is reporting that UFO and other unusual strange incidents came in during 2008 from 50 counties - up from 37 counties the previous year. Giant birds - also known as Thunderbirds - Bigfoot and UFOs continue to be reported in the Keystone state.
Motorists in Wasgington County traveling along a major route in May pulled over to watch as a ''huge dark colored flying creature that looked more like a giant bat than a bird'' was low flying as it passed over the cars.
A Warren County woman reported in May that a Bigfoot-like creature climbed onto her home deck as she watched from inside.
While a major increase in UFO reports were coming from the eastern end of the state this year, Gordon reports that many unusual stories from the western end of the state include spherical, disc-shaped, luminous objects and triangular-shaped objects. Multiple witnesses from several locations reported a glowing whtie object on Sept. 5. Two Elk County hunters first saw glowing lights in the woods on Oct. 5, and soon discovered a glowing human-like form standing about 3 feet tall. On the same date in Tioga County, a cigar-shaped object was spotted approaching from the north.
Full report from Stan Gordon --
During 2008, there were numerous reports of UFO sightings and other strange incidents reported from across the Keystone state. Reports of unusual incidents originated from 50 counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. That is an increase over 2007, when such reports were received from 37 counties. Some of the strange incidents reported included sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, strange sky illuminations, Bigfoot, giant birds, mountain lions, strange sounds and mysterious footprints.
An example of some of the more interesting 2008 mysterious events from Pennsylvania.
Giant Bird Sightings
There has been a history from Pennsylvania and other states of sightings of giant birds with enormous wingspans that are occasionally reported, and are commonly referred to as “thunderbirds.” In recent years, the reports of these huge flying creatures have increased. Rick Fisher of the Paranormal Society of Pennsylvania received a report which occurred in February at a rural location outside of Harrisburg. The driver of a vehicle, who was also an active hunter, saw a huge bird-like creature drop from the trees and approach his vehicle. The man stopped and got out to take a better look at the creature, which seemed to soar or glide without flapping its wings. He hesitantly told Rick that what he saw looked, “prehistoric almost.”
Researcher Jim Brown investigated an incident which occurred on the afternoon of May 20, on a major roadway in Washington County. Motorists reportedly pulled off the road to watch as a huge dark colored flying creature that looked more like a giant bat than a bird, circled low, and passed over some cars. One witness noticed that the wingspan extended beyond the edges of the two lane highway. One man was seen taking pictures of the giant flying creature. That person has never come forward.
Bigfoot Sightings
Over the years, there have been hundreds of sightings of huge hair covered man-like or sometimes more ape-like creatures reported statewide. A very active area is along the Chestnut Ridge in Westmoreland, Fayette, and Indiana counties. While such sightings are reportedly yearly, the number of such reports have dropped in recent years.
The Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society (PBS) received a report from Warren County in May that a woman had seen such a creature climb up her lattice and onto her back deck. She watched it from her patio door as it climbed over the railing and departed. In August, from rural Warren County, I received a report that a man and his son observed a 7 foot tall, hair covered creature with very long swinging arms cross a roadway with very long steps and enter a wooded area.
I also received reports of strange screaming sounds coming from along the Chestnut Ridge near Latrobe. An experienced woodsman came across 18 inch long, five toed footprints, unlike anything he had ever seen before, while hiking in the Forbes State Forest above Rector on August 22.
UFO Sightings
While there was a lot of UFO activity reported from the eastern portions of the state, many UFO sightings were reported in western Pennsylvania and elsewhere. While spherical, and disc shaped objects were reported, as well as formations of luminous objects, there were numerous triangular shaped objects sighted as well.
On July 2, near Connellsville, witnesses observed a triangular shaped object with a curved bottom and numerous lights. The silent object passed overhead and moved toward the Yough River. During the early morning hours of August 12, in a rural area between Greensburg and Youngwood, a witness observed what was described as, “two huge double headlights,” side by side, and slightly yellow in color, hovering low just above the road. The silent lights rose up from the ground and moved off over the trees.
I received several independent UFO sighting reports from Westmoreland and Allegheny Counties on September 5. About 12:30 a.m. a glowing round white object with various colored lights was observed hovering in the western sky from New Stanton. The object suddenly disappeared from sight after a few minutes. Soon after, a second object shaped like a glowing football moved rather fast across the sky, then suddenly stopped, then dropped lower toward the ground. With binoculars, the object appeared round with evenly spaced lights.
Another report was received which had occurred at nearly the same time. A motorist driving near South Park in Allegheny County watched as what appeared to be a large lighted object passed over him at an altitude of about 100 feet. His attention was first drawn to a series of bright white lights that were non-blinking and about 3 feet in diameter that were attached to the object. The driver lowered his window and heard no sound. The object made a sharp bank and rose up over the trees and moved off. That same morning, a slow moving silent orange sphere of light was observed at about 3 a.m. near Jeannette as it moved across the sky, then suddenly vanished.
It was during the early morning hours of October 4, that two hunters in Elk County encountered something unusual. As they moved into a wooded area, they first noticed two baseball sized glowing lights about 15 feet above the ground. Soon they noticed multiple beams of light which seemed to originate from about 10 feet from above the ground, and projected parallel with the ground.
Their attention, however, was drawn to a glowing human-like form, which was estimated to be about 3 feet tall. The color was described as a light green, lime color, and it had arms that hung straight down, and were longer than that of a human. The movement of the being gave the impression that it was gliding. On that same date at about 8:20 p.m., in nearby Tioga County, witnesses observed a silent bright solid cigar shaped object approaching from the north, and it suddenly faded out and vanished as it moved overhead.
This year will mark 50 years that I have been investigating and logging such strange accounts from Pennsylvania. My interest in mysterious happenings started at age 10 in 1959. I began conducting on scene investigations of such matters after the Kecksburg UFO incident in 1965. I started taking phone calls from the public in 1969, from those wanting to report alleged UFO sightings. In 1970, I founded the Westmoreland County UFO Study Group, the first of three volunteer, scientifically oriented research groups that remained active for many years, and which investigated UFO sightings and Bigfoot encounters, as well as other strange events around the state.
Today I continue to investigate and document current reports of such matters as an independent researcher. I am still receiving information about that event, and continue my investigation into this UFO incident which has gained international interest.
I receive anomaly sighting reports from the public via my UFO Hotline at 724-838-7768. I also receive e-mail sighting reports at paufo@comcast.net. For update information visit my web site: www.stangordonufo.com. I also maintain contact with numerous researchers and organizations in the state and from throughout the country and elsewhere. The National UFO Reporting Center in Washington state, and the PA Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network also receive numerous UFO reports. Roger Marsh also provides current sighting information at: www.examiner.com/x-2363-UFO-Examiner. The Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society continues to receive alleged sightings of Bigfoot encounters as well.
When I first began investigating UFO sightings and other strange reports, I found that while many sightings reported seemed initially odd, many were determined to be natural or man-made in origin. Many UFO sightings, for example, can be explained as bright planets and stars, meteors and searchlight beams. Some Bigfoot observations were determined to be large dogs or bear. In recent months, many UFO reports that I received of a very bright light low in the southwestern sky was determined to be the planet Venus. But not all mysterious sightings can be explained away so easily.
Comments
This is great stuff! I'd love to hear more in-depth reporting on this story!
Roger is very good at perpetuating a myth, whether he is paid to do so, makes his money on being an investigator of the unknown or just has his blinkers on. The myth being that UFOs are un-identified. Go to they fly.com and discover that we have open one on one contact with et, that this group are our common ancestors, that they are 1500 years ahead of us on tech ect. The site shows clos up cine and analogue Kodak shots done in the seventies before computor fiddling. 6 US investigators spent 5 years on and off in Switzerland, trying to debunk Billy Meier, the conatctee, but failed. So anybody shouting fraud because the photos are too good, or that it didnt happen to them, had better look in the mirror for the fraudster.
They are prepping people for the finally 'enemy', this is what Regans UN speech was all about. Research project "Blue Beam" and you will understand then the method. The real instances are the Reptilians. Interdenominational entities that are controlling this Earth. "The Greatest Secret" covers that subject well.
The Veil is getting thinner...we are beginning to see others from another dimension. Big Foot is real...and from my understanding...kind beings. Do not walk in fear for fear is false evidence appearing real. Search your heart for the truth.
thr real truth may never be released..the dinosaurs didnot go extinct but evolved way beyond humans and escaped the earth before one of it's death blows to life,and frequently come back to visit their home planet.
Seems strange, but this isnt uncommon. From what ex CIA agents have said, there IS infact an underground base in Dulce, New Mexico. Look it up people. Where there are aliens living that where here far before us. Is it true, from what I have been told yes. How else can you explain our fast growing technology. Doesn't matter, we really dont want to know what our black ops and CIA agents do, its far worse than anyone can imagine.
Doesn't anyone have a gun? That would produce evidence! Heh!
I say we don our alien costumes (from Halloween) and go forth and mix among them to learn their ways and interbreed with them to destroy their alien ship.
We are DOOMED- DOOMED!!!!
Ha Ha!! It is to laugh. Such superstition in such an suposed advanced intelligent society as ours.
All these things: thunderbirds, ufo's, bigfoot, are demons. A demon may take any shape, are very real, are from another dimension, are evil, and are a sign of the end times. They cannot be from another planet. One fact that both science and religion agree on is that there is no evidence of life beyond the earth in the known universe.
They are coming because Obama is the demon that lead us to total destruction. The aliens know that the end is near and they are just waiting to claim what may be theirs anyway.
no steve, science and religion donot agree on anything..
Stan has been an expert on these subjects for many years.
Call in anything you have an experience with to Stan asap.
Open my website at:
www.stargate-chronicles.com
Read what I and Astronaut. Edgar Mitchell have released.
Clark (ScO,Shuttle Fleet, KSC, Florida)
We had a strange screamer on top of our bluff behind the house a few falls back.
I learned later that the so call werewolves over in the southern Lacrosse area made the same screaming cries when they are affraid and running for their lives out of fright.
I took a shot at it with my 30-06 rifle at it covered over a 1000 yds in a matter of seconds. It Had the hair on my back standing on end. It has never returned since.
Oh by the way? All the People who have seen these so called Werewolve like creatures?
Have seen them in the very early hours of the morning like I experienced Mine. Around 1 am or 2 am.
Oh and the night I had My experience?
You could here the creature breaking down big branches and small trees and such as it ran from my shot at it.
FREAKY! Absolutelly Freaky!
And absolutelly the TRUTH.
I hate people who Make a living out of lying to make up stuff to make themselves look smart or try to deceive others and to con them into a lie.
Here is the prophesy: As soon as the sum of numbers of the year reaches five, the gates of the golden stone will be open and ashes will rejoin ashes. Stranges will sneak through the closing door to snatch away what is destinned to perish and that without fear of revealing themselves to those who will not be able to tell afterwards, because the third part will perish.
I KNOW WHAT IT WAS.... IT WAS MY EX-MOTHER-INLAW... I ALSO SAW HER IN NEVADA NEAR AREA 51..SHEBEAST AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHE'S IN MY BACKYARD NOW!!!AND ATE MY DOG AAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
It is amazing how many people still believe we are to 'only ones'. Locked into denial against anything that doesn't fit inside their concept of reality. Be very careful about harming one of these creatures. Their owners may shoot back. That's what President Eisenhower told the atomic energy people back in the '50's when they wanted to test atomic bombs on the moon. "The moon may shoot back,"
I suggest we just 'wait and see'.
I know what you mean KMD, Denial will continue for many people well into extreem denial. I beleive many will go insane whenthe earth changes get really serious and more ets will be showing themselves. I don't beleive that the US /Cdn governments will declare their exsistence for quite some time yet. They'd have to explain way too much for that.
For all those who wonder about ET. I can tell you with absolute 100% certainty that they are here, and that they have been for many years. I have had something literally 2" from my nose. I am not talking about flashing lights in the sky, or vague shapes seen in the shadows. I had something 2" from my nose. That close. I know they are here, if I know it then so do governments, the military and NASA. Forget all questions of 'if'. They are here, and can move around this planet silently and with impunity. You wouldn't know if they were right behind you, right now. There is no 'if', understand that. They are here, 100% absolutely. Understand that and proceed on that basis. For the moment I think they are data gathering. For what purpose I have no idea, good or bad, but they are analysing every square inch of this planet.
I do not believe we are only ones but can not understand why would they come here and not to show up.
There could be genetical mutations of individual species. There are radio waves nonexistant 100+ years ago. Also there are magnetic fields, side-efects of complex modern legal drugs as well the social system based on fame, fear, terror. Millions of human material in US do not know number of sides in the triangle, not to mention things about piezo-effect, optics, perception, the plazma, phosphorus
What kind of work as the slaves we could do for "them"? Maybe they need a cheaper workers for their GM or simply want our money for their bailouts.
And why are just US so important to be "visited" and to monitor? Maybe
because we do have BIG problems
makes want to porch sit and moonlight walk a lot more than I do. I want to see some of these weird things for my self!
Yes Rob they ARE HERE.....find the AlliesOfHumanity.org website, you will then understand that they are here for bad reasons!
Think for a moment of the world that we live in; tens of thousands of nuclear weapons awaiting only an accident or mistake to trigger the total destruction of the human race.
"Should we be looking at the people behind this plot to exterminate us?"
Now connect a few dots and see what type of picture emerges.
You can read "The Politics of Extraterrestrials" free, at:
lulu.com/content/4049293
UFOs or flying saucers are not craft from other planets. The best explanation for this phenomena is that they are a sentient condition of the environment. Read the fascinating books by John A. Keel to learn more.
These type of encounters remind me of the South American in your face episodes of 1950 to say the present.They are loosing all fear of contact it seems and may indicate end times.
You are all nuts. I don't believe in any of it and i think you are all crazy!
if you're such a hero than why don't you go into the woods by yourself. I've gone into the woods by myself since I was 14 years old. Do you have what it takes to do that, HERO!
The werewolfe or dogman creatures are most likely Ground Sloths. They are supposed to be extinct. They are nocturnal, vegetarian, covered in hair, and can walk on two feet. Certainly more plausable than werewolves.
Ground Sloths?? Please! Ground sloths were 15 feet tall and weight was 4 tons and moved as slow as a turtle. There would be no way to hide these extinct creatures in the state of Penna. without being caught. You people are delusional!
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I grew up in Western PA. When my brother was in his late teens he was hunting on Penn View Ridge. He kept feeling that something was watching him. It got so strong that he got out of the woods. When he came out he met a man who was going in because he was trying to find that "thing." Those woods are still pretty thick and who knows what could be in there.
I live in Westmoreland County PA. About 18 years ago My brother, me and two others heard a strange screaming coming from across the road near my house. When we shined a spotlight on it I saw something that I really don't want to see again. It was about 4 feet tall had a face like a dog but it had arms and legs. It ran upright like a man faster than anything i've ever seen. Needless to say, When I go in the woods at night around here there is a .44 in my hand. I don't even tell people because they think you are nuts.
You can read much more about the Westmoreland County situation in the upcoming book - Silent Invasion - should be out soon.
There were many species of ground sloths. The Giant ones were 20 ft. tall. Smaller ones were 7ft. and under. My brother in the mid 70s saw a giant one in Chattsworth New Jersey which is in the pine barrens.
I forgot to say that just beacause todays tree sloths are slow doesn't mean all species of ground sloths were slow. Besides that not really relevant. Many species aren't known because they only come out at night. They sleep in underground dens in the day. I think you (The Thuth) underestimate the amount of wilderness area. New Jersey, one of the smallest states has 40 square miles of nothing but pine trees. There is probably a lot more than that in bigger states. I believe the show Monster Quest or Destination Truth did a show on the "Dogman". The Ground Sloth is the only animal I know of that fits the description.
i have read most of the comments below.from stupid sloths to mother in law jokes.i think your all scared of whats out there and you don't want to know the truth.i have seen only such a small part of the truth about this subject because i did my homework.if only humans would have an open mind and ecept what is out there but no they hide behind the same old beliefs as they have for the last 2000 years.
Want more evidence, google the site "Return to the ice age-The La brea Exploration Guide" check out the feet on the Shasta Ground Sloth. Looks like a match to the footprint of the article above.
I live in Altoona PA Blair county i dont know about UFOs but i can tell you as for ThunderBirds did you ever see a Eagle in the wild it takes your breath away the bird is a big bird and some times in your mind you may make it out to be bigger then it realy is. But im not saying nothing is out there lets look at the facts ask any State Park Games men if we have Mt Lions stil in PA on record he will say no off the record he will say watch your back becase the Mt Lions are back in PA maby they never left. The PA woods are big i grew up in them i remember when i was a kid people telling me bob cats are no longer in PA lol know you cant go a 1/2 Mile in the woods around Blair County with out runing into one.
Rob, you say you had something 2" from your nose? I assume you mean a space alien.
Listen, when dealing with the unknown, its important to go about it in a scientific manner. That means not making assumptions and believing in things that have no basis in fact.
Example: Rob, if a demon took the form of a space alien for the purpose of deceiving you for reasons that man could not comprehend, would you know the difference?
Assume nothing. You don't know they are space aliens.
Of course they are here you arrogant idiots who say no! Take a real look at the billions upon billions of universes out there and look how big just our universe is. Then and only then give us your point of view. I suppose you believe in the bible too ? there are at least 8 NON-HUMAN creatures described in the bible.Dhuuuuuu!!Did I upset you off & make you think ? about time you use your head for more then a hat rack people.
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