UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Very large, non-moving object northern sky at 340 deg.. It was like the largest non-twinkling star I've ever seen but it was too early.

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: 2250s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-08-04
Where
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30-45 minutes
Geo
40.441, -79.996 · exact
Slug
light-over-pittsburgh-pa-2016-387e00
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Pittsburgh, PA in August 2016 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Pittsburgh, PA has 190 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 202 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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