Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Multiple blue light over skyscraper in Pittsburgh, PA. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the lights are lens flares. PD))
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-09-07
- Where
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 40.441, -79.996 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-pittsburgh-pa-2015-1e9eb2
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Pittsburgh, PA reports filed in September 2015.
In context
- Pittsburgh, PA shows up 190 times across the archive.
- 244 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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