CaseDisk1970
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
A saucer-shaped object with orange lights was reported over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in September 1970, visible for about fifteen seconds.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (139 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-09-07
- Where
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 40.441, -79.996 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-pittsburgh-pa-1970-ffd3d5
In context
- Pittsburgh, PA has 190 sightings on file here.
- 1970 brought 6 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.