UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2004

Pittsburgh/New Castle, PA, USA

Green light fills up sky ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. 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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (24 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
2004-10-24
Where
Pittsburgh/New Castle, PA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
15 seconds or so
Geo
40.441, -79.996 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-pittsburgh-new-castle-pa-2004-941a83
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/New Castle, PA shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 137 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2004.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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