Date: July 4, 2010
Time: Approx: 9:45 p.m.
Brian, just found this site tonight as I was trying to find out if there were any UFO sightings around the Pittsburgh area on the evening of July 4, 2010.
I am from Glassport, which is about 10 miles south of Pittsburgh. We live on a hill overlooking our town, the river, and the hills on the other side of the river, and we have a really good view of the valley and houses below us except for one spot about 150 foot away and to our left where the view is partially blocked by a rather large sugar maple tree.
We were watching (8 adults and 2 children) fireworks along the hills across the river from other towns and communities at about 9:45 pm, when we noticed a bright burning or glowing object at eye level appear from behind the sugar maple tree moving from left to right. Somebody commented about the "firework" and then somebody else commented it wasn't a firework, but it was a "shooting star".
We then realized it was moving too slowly and was actually very close to us and below the hills of where we were watching the fireworks. That's when I commented, it looks like some kind of UFO and 2 people scrambled to get their cameras. The object was only about 2-3 streets down below us which I estimate was only 300 or 400 foot away. And it was eye level for us, meaning it couldn't have been more than 100 to 150 foot above ground.
There was no sound from this object and it appeared to have a reddish glow on top of a bright, golden-orange ball of glowing light. This object was very close and did not appear to be very big. It continued moving left to right going slightly upward over trees and houses and up over the hill. It appeared as if it was moving under its own power even though we heard no sound at all. It had no erratic movements and basically went in a pretty straight line from when we first saw it, until when it disappeared over the hill and houses behind us to our right.
There was no wind that night to move that object in that manner. I was the last one to see it before it disappeared as I ran to the side of the house. It looked like it slightly turned, giving me a better glimpse of the light underneath the object. In my opinion, the one bright light was really 3 separate lights in a triangle type formation, which, when seen close up gave the appearance of one bright light. However, everybody else who seen it claims there was one bright light.
At approximately 11:00pm the same night, another bright lighted object much higher and further away, also traveled left to right but followed the river instead of coming up and over the hill. Ironically, a friend of my 22 year old son told him the next day that he and his father watched a bright object travel above the river heading toward Duquesne at about 11:00 the night before. That is the exact direction the light we saw was heading for. They live over the hill in the next town and have a clear view of the river about a mile or so away from us. He told us this story before my son told him what we had seen.
We did manage to get a few pictures, but the video did not show anything as the guy taking the video could not find it in the lens. The picture just shows a bright lighted object where the bright light is slightly blurred and appears to be showing the object moving left to right. In reality though, the light was bright underneath the object and never gave the impression it was pushing the object from left to right. You cannot make out any shape of the object. That pictured was snapped as it was moving away from us, before it went over the houses and hill behind us. Too bad we didn't see it coming earlier because we would have had a straight on picture of it at it's closest point to us. My guess is this thing was smaller than a car, but I'm not sure because of the darkness.
If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at:
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