Monaco, PA, USA
07/04/78 · Monaco, PA, USA · 1 sources
Two children camping in a residential backyard observed a silent, oblong/circular object hovering near Fourth of July fireworks approximately 5 miles from the Ohio River. Initially mistaken for a news helicopter, the object slowly moved toward them over 5 minutes, stopped and hovered about 100 feet above them, at which point they observed it was gray, flat on the bottom, rounded on top, with multi-colored circling lights and a wrap-around illuminated window. A shadowy figure was seen moving to the window and looking down at them. After approximately 30 seconds of hovering, the object shot straight up into the clouds and departed at high speed.
- Shape
- Round but more oblong; circular, elongated, flat bottom, rounded top
- Nature
- Unknown aerial craft with apparent occupant
- Sound
- None
- Weather
- Clear skies, warm
- Site
- Residential backyard, 5 miles from the Ohio River
- Size
- Slightly larger than a helicopter
- Duration
- 6 min
- Time of day
- Night
- Local time
- Late evening
- Theme
- entity_occupant
The unmodified record(s) the master event was assembled from.
NIDS-DOCNIDS-DOC:8d291d97:128 fields
- city
- Monaco
- date
- 1978-07-04
- site
- Residential backyard, 5 miles from the Ohio River
- shape
- Round but more oblong; circular, elongated, flat bottom, rounded top
- sound
- None
- state
- PA
- country
- USA
- weather
- Clear skies, warm
- date_raw
- 07/04/78
- incident
- Two children camping in a residential backyard observed a silent, oblong/circular object hovering near Fourth of July fireworks approximately 5 miles from the Ohio River. Initially mistaken for a news helicopter, the object slowly moved toward them over 5 minutes, stopped and hovered about 100 feet above them, at which point they observed it was gray, flat on the bottom, rounded on top, with multi-colored circling lights and a wrap-around illuminated window. A shadowy figure was seen moving to the window and looking down at them. After approximately 30 seconds of hovering, the object shot straight up into the clouds and departed at high speed.
- svp_code
- CET/104
- lifeforms
- A shadowy figure was seen moving from inside the craft to the window and glancing down; no features could be made out
- time_local
- Late evening
- trajectory
- Initially hovering near fireworks, slowly moved toward witnesses over 5 minutes, stopped overhead, then shot straight up into clouds and moved away at great speed
- case_source
- NIDS
- size_meters
- Slightly larger than a helicopter
- time_of_day
- Night
- source_quote
- Over 5 minutes it slowly moved toward us, making no sound and not more than 100 feet above us. When it reached our position it stopped mid-air. It was circular, but elongated a bit. Gray, flat on the bottom, rounded on the top, with multi-colored lights which circled the bottom and a window that wrapped around the front which showed light from inside. After 30 seconds of hovering we saw a figure move from inside to the window, glancing down to our position.
- catalog_entry
- NIDS-DOC:8d291d97:1
- location_text
- PA-Monaco
- witness_count
- 2
- source_doc_sha
- 8d291d974ef6601ac405c431828a81c4826051698f0574373c2d81cc848805f5
- light_emissions
- Encircling multi-colored lights on the bottom; light visible from inside through wrap-around front window
- witness_sex_age
- Male, age 8-10 at time of incident (31 years old at time of report); childhood friend (identity not provided)
- duration_minutes
- 6
- witness_reactions
- Both witnesses lay staring at the object; afterwards ran inside to tell friend's parents who did not believe them. Witness does not recall missing time but acknowledges it could have occurred.
- witness_occupation
- Internet company CEO (at time of report)
- nature_of_phenomenon
- Unknown aerial craft with apparent occupant
- NIDS-DOCNIDS-DOC
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