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August 2008 - Page 17
Pittsburgh Thunderbird
by Griff
In November, 2004 I was sitting in heavy traffic in a suburb just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was about 4 p.m. and I, along with a ton of other commuters, had been sitting for nearly an hour, due to construction. Now before I get to my odd experience, I would like to state that I am a grounded individual -- a "see it before I believe it" type person. Granted, I have observed oddities before, but not on such a large scale with so many other witnesses.
I was sitting in my car with the engine off. Most people had their engines off, so it was relatively quiet, other than the chatter of people conversing from car to car. I spotted something in the air and instantly thought it was a plane -- until it flapped its wings! I thought I was seeing things at first, so I kept watching it, and sure enough it flapped its wings again!
It was a HUGE black bird with a 20- 25-foot (possibly larger) wingspan. It was easily longer and wider than a bus! I took a second to look around and make sure that I wasn't the only one who saw the thing. Everyone around watched it, jaws agape, stunned. People were recording it with their cell phones. The giant made no effort to fly off. It calmly stayed in sight for a good 5-10 minutes before it flew west and faded from sight.
I have seen large birds before, everything from eagles to condors, but this bird dwarfed all of them. It resembled one of the big birds from those Lord of the Rings movies, and I felt like a tiny hobbit watching it! I still consider myself a skeptic, but I, as well as hundreds of other people became believers in the beasts they call thunderbirds at the same time!
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