Location: Near Evans City, Pennsylvania

Date: April 14 1971 Time: 2020

A man named Dennis was driving his fiancée Marion, from Evans City to her home in Pittsburgh. They were traveling on a two-lane highway, typical of the unlighted roads through the farmlands of that area, and Dennis was holding his VW to the posted 35 mph limit. They had just passed the Callery chemical plant (where the first space fuel was made for NASA rockets of the Vanguard series) the only plant of any size between Pittsburgh and Butler. The sky was cloudless, and as the temperature was in the sixties, they had the windows lowered for ventilation. It was Marion who first saw the unusual sky object, through the passenger side window of the VW. The object was traveling in the same direction as their car and at much the same speed, and it was estimated to have been about 100 yards from them. The witnesses did not feel as though they were being paced by the object, but rather that it was just flying along. It was the glowing yellow-white color and low altitude that caught Marion’s attention, and she thought she was watching some kind of aircraft. However even with the window down she could hear no noise. It was obvious that Marion was excited about something outside the car, so Dennis slowed down to about 10 mph, and then he too caught sight of the object. Dennis said that the object followed the contours of the hills off to their right, staying above them and always equidistant from them, as if using some kind of radar technique. At no time did the witnesses experience any discomfort or any kind of mechanical or electrical problems with the car. Dennis pulled off to the side of the road and stopped the engine so that he could listen for any sound coming from the object. It then shot away from its place above the hills, across the road at the same height (about 100ft) and out into the sky to a point where it became like a small point of light, about the brightness of the planet Jupiter as it now appears in the night sky.

Less than a minute later the object grew in size, as it appeared to be returning to the point where it had last been in motion over the low hills. The UFO looked like two bowls placed together at the rims, but with the upper section more pronounced than the lower one. The whole object seemed luminescent, and it was this that first attracted Marion’s attention. They said it looked the size of a 1 ½ story bungalow. No odor, sound or other effects were noticed. The object then seemed to slow as it went over a larger hill to the right and about 100 yards distant. As it did so it appeared to drop behind the hill, and the witnesses thought it may have continued over and past the hill, becoming lost to sight in the “dead” ground due to its low altitude. Dennis re-started the car without any problems and drove down the road to a junction with a dirt road. This narrow track takes off to the right and crosses the railroad tracks of the regular service route of the Pennsylvania R. R. which runs parallel to the road and past the Callery Chemical plant.

Marion was not too keen to follow something that had just about taken her breath away, but Dennis an adventurous type decided to follow the track in the hope of seeing the object in the distance. The road twisted and turned for a quarter mile, but they soon arrived at a point where the UFO had gone over the brow of the hill, and there it was again, this time hanging, or hovering several feet above the ground. It was about 80 yards away over the downslope of a farmer’s ploughed field. Dennis drove on up the track which led to a farmhouse and barn. The house was in darkness, and there was only a small light beside the barn. Dennis was hoping someone would be at home so that they could get others to see this peculiar object, but not a soul was around. Below the dirt road where they were now parked, the farmland was in the form of a field---freshly ploughed---of about 15 to 20 acres. Beyond the ploughed field there is an area of wooded land, and the UFO was hovering close up against the woods, in a sort of “cove” flanked by tall maple trees. Dennis was sure it was hovering, because he could see light between the UFO and the ground. According to Marion the air smelled sweet and clean, much as it does after rain.

They had parked on the road nearby a couple of trees, and it was while they watched the object with widening eyes that they smelled the unnatural aroma. The object was still glowing with a whitish yellow hue, and a mist was seen about it. Dennis estimated that the object was about 25-30ft in diameter, and about 20 ft in height. The trees near the UFO were not illuminated by it, just the misty area immediately adjacent to the object. At this point a shaft of white light shone from the top of the object and went straight up. The object had several windows in the upper portion; they were the shape of vertical rectangles. The bottom half had three round windows spaced equally across the front. Dennis thinks it was at least four windows. There appeared red lights from within the top windows and the bottom ones, reddish flickering lights from within like those which one sees dancing across computer screens in Science Fiction movies. It was Marion who first saw the figures in the windows…human-like forms, two of them. Along with Dennis it took Marion only about three seconds to get into the car and drive away from there. They were large figures, and from the distance---which they think was some 80 yards---they must have been about 10 feet high. They stood silhouetted in two of the upper windows, and it was this that turned inquisitiveness into unadulterated fright. The UFO was still in the same position as they went out of sight of it down the dirt road.

Humcat 1971-14

Source: Robert A. Schmidt & D. Hillman for UFORI Type: A