UFOMYST
CaseDisk2008

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

((HOAX)) orange white and red lighted rotating disk moving up and down then suddenly flew away at a very fast pace.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-08-09
Where
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.441, -79.996 · exact
Slug
disk-over-pittsburgh-pa-2008-82533e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Pittsburgh, PA shows up 190 times across the archive.
  • 193 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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