1976-07-01 - Philadelphia, PA - Oval

While driving north on 7th st our 3 year old son shouted for my husband and I to look up in the sky. We looked up, and saw what I thought was an oval object in the sky. We came up to the corner and my husband ran up the street and got his father, who came down to the corner. We watched for several minutes until it went over the horizon.

Approximately 20 minutes later my husband, son and I continued on our journey. At approximately 11st and Olney Ave we again saw the same object. It was a lot closer, and hovering. What I remember is that it was enormous. It had windows (I think) and lights going around. There was no noticable noise coming from it. We parked our car and watched the object for approximately 10 minutes. Then, as weird as it sounds, we got bored and decided to go on our journey assuming that we would read about it in the newspaper the next day.

The next day, the Philadelphia newspaper had an article about a citing of a UFO near Baltimore Pike, which is probably 20 miles from where we saw the object.

My memory is that the object was more circular or oval; however, my huband remembers it as cigar shaped. I think that it was a silver metallic color. It was hoving over a very congested area of the city. People were walking on the sidewalk, but I did not notice anyone else looking up, and we did not tell anyone to look up. Another odd thing is that after that night, none of us spoke of this for many years.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD))