UFOMYST
CaseDisk1965

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1965, a witness reported a disk-shaped object in the sky, observed for about five minutes.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-10-02
Where
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 MINUTES
Geo
40.441, -79.996 · exact
Slug
disk-over-pittsburgh-pa-1965-9a5a78
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Pittsburgh, PA logged 3 reports in the single month of October 1965.

In context

  • One of 190 documented reports from Pittsburgh, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 22 sightings in 1965.
  • Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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