CaseDisk1997

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

observed stationary disk object hovering in clear daylight about 100 feet driving nearly beneath it.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-30
Where
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.441, -79.996 · exact
Slug
disk-over-pittsburgh-pa-1997-d56a03
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 190 documented reports from Pittsburgh, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 40 sightings in 1997.
  • Disk sightings ran at 7.1% during the 1990s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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