Green Fireball Illistration
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It's been 37 years since I've seen a UFO - and finally this evening - Thursday, July 29, at 10:59 p.m. - I was blessed with watching something odd in the late evening sky.

Keep in mind - a UFO is not necessarily an alien craft from a far away galaxy or inter-dimensional travelers. It's just something flying through the air that you cannot immediately identify.

My 17-year-old son, Joey, and myself had just stepped out our back door onto a deck from our Scottdale, Pennsylvania home. We have a wooden ramp that moves off of this for my wife's wheelchair. Joey was off to a friend's house for the night and I was just seeing him out.

I stopped at the top of the ramp as he tromped down it into the back yard - and I looked up into the northeast sky.

A giant, green fireball suddenly caught my attention - and I immediately shouted to Joey to look up. We both watched this object silently moving in a downward motion and only lost sight of it behind our neighbor Debbie's two-story frame home one block away.

Joey and I both agreed. It was huge. We finally agreed on it being the size of a nickel held at arm's length. I have no idea exactly how far away the object was. The color was definitely green - and it seemed to be on fire. Joey recalls seeing fire spewing from behind it.

Don't ask where the photos or video are - my sighting lasted a whopping 3 seconds; so we figure Joey saw it for about 2 seconds. My $800 digital camera and my cell phone were both lying on my office desk - on the second floor.

I covered a similar story on March 31, 2010, Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Case # 22579 in this report: Florida couple questions green fireball under 1,500 feet: Meteor or UFO?

While the object felt natural - I'm still curious as to exactly what it was. So huge in the sky, I would be hard pressed to believe there are no additional witnesses out there. I called neighbor Debbie as her husband had just been at our home tinkering with an electrical project - but they had been inside.

My first sighting was in 1973 at the age of 16 - a disc-shaped UFO that I managed to get within 30 feet of. That experience ignited a lifetime of UFO interest. I may also have seen a UFO late last year at a Pennsylvania site I am currently investigating - Site 516 - but did not file a report on that one. It was off in the distance several miles and I am still not convinced it was a helicopter.

I did file a report on this object with MUFON - hoping like everyone else - that I can find out what it was or at least talk to additional witnesses. Mine is Case # 24841.

Well - back to other people's UFO sightings. I promise to keep watching the skies.

Update: A third witness has come forward.

The third witness - a 14-year-old neighbor of ours, said he saw the object at the same date and time as we did from a point of view close by. He described the object as a "frisbee on fire."