Pittsburgh, PA, USA
The object was a large dark square or rectangle that had a smaller object slightly above and ahead that was reflective silver.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-03
- Where
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.441, -79.996 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-pittsburgh-pa-2016-0ac33b
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 August 2016.
In context
- Pittsburgh, PA shows up 190 times across the archive.
- 202 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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