UFOMYST
CaseFireball2020

Pittsburgh (east of), PA, USA

Trans-morphic scintillating orb/fireball south by southeast of Pittsburgh PA about 30 degrees off of the horizon.

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-17
Where
Pittsburgh (east of), PA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
interval still present
Geo
40.441, -79.996 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-pittsburgh-east-of-pa-2020-c6f956
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 (east of), PA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 316 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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