LETTER 2: We left off with the Johnsons sending a letter to family members telling them about a UFO encounter over Bradford in April of 1967.

Evelyn and Ellsworth Johnson had run outside to see this UFO, but it had moved away from their Oakwood Avenue residence.

Eventually, though, it returned, but “it never got so close again.” It would also glow more brightly at times before going out completely, the letter read.

When it returned, Ellsworth called the police station and informed them of what was happening, but was told the police hadn’t heard any other reports and to call back if he saw it again.

It ended up coming back, and so Ellsworth called again and three officers went to the house to check it out.

“When they got here, they said they had been watching it on the street below us, and it was definitely some kind of object up there,” the letter noted.

Nothing was ever confirmed from the incident, but the letter said, “But whoever or whatever it was, I have a feeling, and so does Cheryl, that they were watching us.”

The family watched it for roughly two hours.

“After the lights were turned on and off several times it disappeared. Then when everything was quiet, we would see it again, and it appeared to be hovering, sort of moving back and forth on a string,” the letter noted.

It left quite a spook.

“Cheryl didn’t even want to go to bed. I had to sleep with her,” the letter concluded.

We looked through some old copies of The Era to see if there were other reports. We found an interesting sighting of something a few days later.

On the night of April 5, 1967, during a trap shooting event at the Bradford Trap and Skeet Field in Marshburg, shooters “saw a blue-white ball with a comet-like tail shoot across the sky in a northerly direction. It seemed to be traveling at a moderate speed and after traveling about 15 seconds it faded out. It seemed to be too low to be a shooting star, according to the shooters.”

While the field is at the top of a hill and had good visibility, and was fairly close to the McKean Airport, as it was called then, the shooters all agreed that it was not a plane, but an “unidentified flying object.”

The mysterious ball wasn’t explained, but the men finished the competition nonetheless.