Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Low UFO sliding out of a cloud into clear blue sky.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-10-12
- Where
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.441, -79.996 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-pittsburgh-pa-1965-02df36
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Pittsburgh, PA in October 1965 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Pittsburgh, PA has 190 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 22 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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