On August 1, 2002, I received an interesting report of an encounter with an unusual object, that had taken place on July 24, 2002. I had the opportunity to interview the reporting witness later that day. The sighting occurred in a shopping complex in North Huntingdon Township, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The incident involved three witnesses, a man, his wife, and a friend. Since these people hadn't seen each other for sometime, they stood in the parking lot and got involved in a long conversation.

It was about 10 P.M., and the local businesses had all been closed for a while. In the middle of the conversation, the friend suddenly said "look behind you." They turned around to look, and observed a small odd object which looked like a bubble, but was "absolutely round and shiny." The sphere was estimated to be the size of a tennis ball. While it gave the appearance of looking something like a bubble, the witness said "it was solid, in a way not like a bubble. You could see thickness in the wall of the object."

As they watched, the object floated past them at a distance of no more than 10 feet. The man indicated that if he had moved forward a few feet, he could have reached out and grabbed the object. The object continued to move slowly in a straight line down the middle of the road "moving straight as an arrow." The object which was only about 6 feet off the ground, kept the same heighth. The witness commented" It was a perfectly calm night, with no wind at all, yet this bubble zoomed on past us as if being driven by something unseen." (The Pittsburgh National Weather Service Office verifies that the winds were calm at the time.)

As the object continued to move straight down the road, at one point it zig-zagged left then right, and was halfway down the complex when they lost sight of it. At one point as the object was moving, it passed under an awning, and it was apparent that there was no strings attached to it. The object did reflect light from the overhead lighting. There was no sound detected during the approximately 20 second observation. There was no one else in sight around the location of observation. The man stated that the object "appeared to have thickness to it, not like a child's bubble that was blown from soap bubble." The witness who has a military background, stated that whatever it was he saw, it gave him the impression that it was "a probe of some kind."

Note: While reports of small spherical objects are not that common, since the 1960's I have on record a number of such instances which have occurred in Pennsylvania. These small objects, all of which were reported at very close distance from the observers, range from several inches to about a foot in diameter.

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