CaseDisk2010

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
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…

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

within 30 days

Report

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