Mystery Luminous Sphere Moves over Pittsburgh

March 9, 2013-About 9:25 PM

Penn Hills-Allegheny County & Greensburg-Westmoreland County

Two people were stargazing from behind their home near Penn Hills a suburb of Pittsburgh, on the evening of March 9, 2013. It was a very clear night and many stars were visible. Suddenly one of the observers yelled out to the other person. Both then observed what was described as a very large, blood red colored ball, moving across the sky from roughly southeast to northwest.

The object was roundish with a darkened red center and brighter red on the outside sections. The object appeared to move to slow for a meteor, and had no trail behind it. The silent object was observed for about 7-10 seconds. One witness commented that it was, “slow and big.”

At about the same time, another man who lives in the Greensburg area of Westmoreland County, was looking through his spotting scope at the clear sky trying to locate the comet recently discussed in the news.  As he looked towards the west through his scope, he observed a reddish-yellow solid looking ball.

The man said the object suddenly just appeared from out of nowhere while looking through the scope. He commented that it was as though someone turned a light bulb on. The object did not streak fast across the sky like a meteor. The man followed the object with his scope for about 10 seconds before the light as he described it went off.

Color Changing Object Moves over Waynesburg

March 4, 2013-8 PM

Waynesburg-Greene County

A man was walking his dog and was standing in the rear of his home. It was about 8 PM as he was watching some aircraft moving across the clear dark sky that he noticed something else that was unusual. The witness saw a solid yellow colored light that was moving from the north to south but did not display any strobe lights such as those which could clearly be seen on the other aircraft moving in the sky.

The man watched as the object moved steadily across the sky. His first thought was that it might be a satellite but felt that it was moving slower than the other ones which he had observed in the past. As the witness continued to watch, the color of the object began to gradually change from the yellow color to a  bright blue color and the size of the light became larger. While in the slow process of changing colors, it also was diminishing in speed.

The object reached a bright blue white color, and appeared brighter than any star or planet in the sky at that time, and brighter than any lights on the aircraft also observed in the sky at that time. As the object peaked in brilliancy, it seemed to slow down almost to the point where it made a complete stop. At that point, the color of the object quickly returned to yellow then suddenly faded out and was no longer seen.

Fast Moving Object Splits from Formation of Lights

February 9, 2013- Between 10:30-11:00 PM

North Huntingdon, PA-Westmoreland County

The witness had just walked outside onto his porch to get some fresh air. He happened to look up into the clear sky towards the north, when he observed about 4-6 lights that appeared in a somewhat check mark- like formation.  The lights appeared round and bright orange in color. When the witness first saw them, his first thought was that these were military aircraft. As the man continued to watch, It was soon realized that the lights appeared to be stationary and made no sound.

Seconds later about 3-4 of the objects suddenly disappeared. In a few moments the witness watched as one of the remaining orange lights which seemed to have been positioned at the furthest section of the formation, suddenly shot off at a very fast rate of speed towards the north. The witness said that it might have had a slight trail behind it as it moved off and that it looked similar to a meteor but didn’t break up as they usually do.

The witness quickly called a neighbor to come outside and take a look. That neighbor was able to view the last light along with the primary witness. That light moved very slowly towards the southeast, and they watched as it moved far off in the distance but had changed to a white color, and looked similar to a satellite moving across the sky. The total observation time by the primary witness was about a minute.