CaseCircle2016

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

((HOAX??)) Went out to walk dog an seen a huge round thing in the sky above Mr with yellow green an blue lights.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-03-11
Where
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.441, -79.996 · exact
Slug
circle-over-pittsburgh-pa-2016-aca76c
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…

In context

  • This is one of 190 reports logged in Pittsburgh, PA.
  • This case is one of 202 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2016.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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