The "Do You Remember UFO Sightings From The Past?" Story

 It was an ordinary day.  August 20, 1952 and three young boys aged 14 were manning the Neffsville, Pennsylvania Ground Observation Post at around 4:00 A.M. when they spotted a single light in the sky.  Then, a second light slid underneath the first before going out a few minutes later!  The boys quickly notified Olmsted Air Force Base and later prepared an official report to the U.S. Air Force on what they had seen.  The following day there was a story in the Lancaster New Era telling about what the boys, Gordon James, Bill Ford and Tom Groff, had seen.  To this day nothing has ever been discovered that can explain the unusual sighting.  Was it a UFO?

Bill Ford and  Gordon James were two of the boys who saw the UFO

Were aliens flying in their spaceship?  Had the there young boys been drinking more than water while they were on duty?  But wait...a similar light was spotted that same evening about 9:45 by two other Neffsville teens.  This time the light was in a different position and just faded into the sky.  Both cases remain among a handful of unresolved, unexplained UFO sightings in the state of Pennsylvania.  Declassified records tell us that the United States military investigated 12,618 UFO sightings worldwide between 1947 and 1969.  Most were explained, but to this date 701 have never been solved.  Other sightings in the state of Pennsylvania were from Allentown on September 13, 1952; Altoona on July 23, 1952; Corsica on March 26, 1959; Kutztown on July 9, 1952; Pleasant View on May 26, 1964; Pittsburg on February 11, 1952; Stroudsbury on October 2, 1958; noon on July 11, 1966; and one incident listed only as Pennsylvania on March 2, 1954.  Bill Ford and Gordon James were among the teenagers who had volunteered as spotters at the Neffsville Ground Observer post in 1953 as part of the national Civil Defense program.  The two were among five teenagers who spotted UFOs from that location.  

Air Force Lt. Joseph Riding, security officer for Olmstead Field

in Middletown, PA points to a map were there was a UFO sighting.

There were also many spotting throughout the United States.  One image provided by the Civil Defense was known as "The Blob" and was captured on fuzzy video by Navy pilots.  But, wait!  There's a whole fleet of them, one naval aviator tells another.  The images was labeled as unexplained.  So, what's going on?  What ever happened to all these sightings back in the 1950s?  The U.S. Government has been taking a hard look at unidentified flying objects, under orders from Congress, and a report summarizing what officials know is expected to come out in June of 2021.  Now, what you just read was from a story I found in the Lancaster Newspaper in 1952.  We are now in June of 2021 and I am awaiting the news we were supposed to have as stated in the article from 1952.  While I sat typing this story, I talked to my wife about it and asked if she had heard anything about it and she too had not heard anything about it.  Could it have been forgotten or swept under the carpet?  Maybe I'm the only one waiting for the latest news on the UFOs.  Perhaps I need to look out our skylight more often and see for myself if there are any funny-looking lights moving around in the distant night-time sky.  I'll let you know if I see any.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.