CaseUnknown2020

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

5 people and myself witnessed a string of objects grouped tightly together high in the western sky ((Starlink satellites?))

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-08-08
Where
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
40.441, -79.996 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-pittsburgh-pa-2020-03d6f6
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

August 2020 was a busy month for Pittsburgh, PA: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 190 reports logged in Pittsburgh, PA.
  • This case is one of 316 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2020.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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