UFOMYST
CaseSphere2008

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

orange glowing sphere in sky hovering

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-07-04
Where
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2-4 minutes
Geo
40.441, -79.996 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-pittsburgh-pa-2008-b8fe7c
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 190 reports logged in Pittsburgh, PA.
  • This case is one of 193 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2008.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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