Pittsburgh, PA, USA
A large fast moving V formation of lights. Appeared to be one craft, no sound. Was only visible from my vantage point for about a min
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-10-16
- Where
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1 minutes
- Geo
- 40.441, -79.996 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-pittsburgh-pa-2010-edcf90
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Pittsburgh, PA in October 2010 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Pittsburgh, PA has 190 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 171 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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