The Great UFO Wave of 1973:
May, 1973

May 27 sighting
Evans City, PA

• Source: Butler (PA) Eagle
  March 29, 1973

Don't tell people in the Evans City area there is no such thing as UFOs. Several of them - including an Evans City policeman - have reported sighting unidentified flying objects in the skies for several hours on Tuesday night.

Eyewitness testimony by residents of May Lane, just south of Evans City Heights, is back by Evans City Police Sergeant Andrew Urnowsky, who described a triangular flying object with flashing red and green lights.

Sgt. Urnowsky said the objects resembled an airplane, but there was no engine noise - only a hissing sound.

William J. Rice of May Lane said the object came so close to him, he could feel the suction, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Euphene Tripp, was so frightened she ran in the house.

While the people on May Lane say the "sky was full" of flying objects - possibly a mothership with her satellites, Harmony Police officer John Huffman reported sighting a single flying object over the Zelienople Greenhouse.

If this be madness, it is not confined to Evans City, for a teletype report from Warren, issued on Monday, reported that several persons had seen unidentified flying objects moving in a southeasterly direction.

This report is courtesy of
Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
P. O. Box 391, Canterbury, CT 06331, USA
Telephone: (860) 546-9135