UFOMYST
CaseSphere2011

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Observed 2-3 bright orange orbs just east of Downtown Pittsburgh

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (64 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-06-19
Where
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.441, -79.996 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-pittsburgh-pa-2011-302f26
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 →

In context

  • Pittsburgh, PA has 190 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 188 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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