Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Stationery for 20 min., when viewed through binoculars, it appeared as though it had lights around. ((NUFORC Note: Venus? PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2010-07-11
- Where
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- twenty minutes
- Geo
- 40.441, -79.996 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-pittsburgh-pa-2010-680bff
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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In context
- Pittsburgh, PA shows up 190 times across the archive.
- 171 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
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