A UFO observed sitting over the Highland Park Reservoir in Pittsburgh in 1970's over 30 people claim they saw it

Pennsylvania seems to be a hot bed for Bigfoot and UFO sightings

http://ufoexperiences.blogspot.com/2005/10/bigfoot-and-ufo-sightings-in-laurel.html

 One of the supposed sightings happened right here in the city at Pittsburgh's Highland Park Reservoir  in the Eastern part of the city
March 1st 1978

http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case438.htm

Now I have seen plenty of strange goings on in the sky at night most of which are easily explainable
but in this case the size of the object they say was over the reservoir has to make you wonder.
In the article they claim it was bigger than reservoir  itself  and over 30 people claim to have eventually seen it   or the fast moving lights thru the sky an hour earlier even at 10PM at night there are still many people out and all the cars coming over the near by Highland Park Bridge should have also seen it so you would think there would have been more reports.
So what was it? Hard to tell and in the mean time you think local airport radar would have picked it up but there where no reports in news it did.

So was it some kind of secret spy craft from a government agency  ? Well thats always possible after seeing the stealth fighter for the first time at Beaver County Air Show I can see why people thought it was a UFO  creep-ed me out first time I saw it.

But for now it remains a mystery which some day will have an answer we can only hope.

In the mean time check out Stan Gordon's  web site he is from Westmoreland county and has been collecting UFO and other strange anomaly reports for many years.

 http://www.stangordon.info/wp/

By the way next December will be the 50th anniversary of the Kecksburg Incident.

US 30 in Chester W.Va an interesting section of road with its Club 30 and Pittsburgh Crime Family Connections.

I often spent  time riding US 30 The Lincoln Highway  over to Akron Ohio to meet a friend and there is a small strip of the W.Va. panhandle you pass thru called Chester W.Va which has a very interesting connection to a Pittsburgh  Crime Family .
One of the many infamous clubs along this road was the Club "30"

I was too young to enter it and it was long gone by time I was driving age . But you hear plenty of story's (wink wink ) about why these clubs where all along this stretch of road and what was really going on.

http://www.restaurantwarecollectors.com/forums/showwiki.php?title=Club-30

 

Well to start with at the time the drinking age was 21 in Pa. and 18 in W.Va. so if you where young and wanted to drink legally W.Va. was the place to go . How ever if you wanted a little action the Club 30  was where you could gamble and where the local sheriff looked the other way.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19870305&id=9tQ0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=6G0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5290,1708156

The gambling was controlled by the Larocca Crime Family  a branch of the Lacostra Nostra as was gambling in Nearby Weirton W.Va and Stubenville Ohio which are located along US 22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino_Cellini

http://www.mobstersmadamsmurder.com/

 http://www.daughtersofd-day.com/DancingThroughtheMinefields.htm

My father and father in law have memories of those days My wife is from Steubenville area and my dad would often drive young guys from Pittsburgh to Steubenville  or club 30 looking for a nights entertainment and my father in law often talked about the bookies etc along water street in Steubenville when he was a young man he would pass on his way to work as a chemist .

 Of course by time My wife and I grew up this whole era of clubs and illegal gambling was all but over . Between the FBI raiding them and politics changing and a national age of 21 to drink legally 

It pretty well doomed the operations but story's of illegal activity's going on persist. and  there was just a big illegal gambling raid in Steubenville.

http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/ohio/2014/05/20/illegal-gambling-steubenville/9343277/

But lets face it here in the tri-state many people like to gamble.Why do you think the mob set up shop here in the first place.   We now have legal casinos  etc. but its still the thrill of a Football Pool or playing the number  or betting on football game with a bookie .

I choose not to gamble  and I am not here to judge those who choose to what you do in your private life is your business,and thats the way it was with the clubs and bookies etc. The Larocca Crime Family always liked to run a clean game and keep a low profile.

It was not till Mr. Larocca passed away  and the gang got involved in Drugs  that it caught the attention of the FBI and feds in general.Which doomed the gang and its large bookmaking days but rumors persist it still goes on in Washington County by a couple of the very old made men who are left from the gangs heyday.The former site of club 30 now sits in ruins. While other clubs still operate under new names and owners but much smaller  operations than days past.

UPDATE:

In 2022 The old club building and bosses house where torn down and property leveled when US 30 was realigned  near Pa and WV line