Pittsburgh (110 mi. E of), PA, USA
A senior corporate pilot and company officers reported seeing an unusual, cylindrical object from the cockpit of a DC-3 about 110 miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in May 1952.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (182 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1952-05-15
- Where
- Pittsburgh (110 mi. E of), PA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30
- Geo
- 40.441, -79.996 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-pittsburgh-110-mi-e-of-pa-1952-aaa6b7
Part of a wave
The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round
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In context
- Pittsburgh (110 mi. E of), PA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1952 brought 4 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 1950s skewed 2% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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