CaseFireball1975
Pittsburgh (Mckees Rocks, southwest of), PA, USA
We were enjoying the evening sunset, as it glistened off the USX towers downtown Pittsburgh, in a north easterly direction. When we all
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1975-08-01
- Where
- Pittsburgh (Mckees Rocks, southwest of), PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10-15 min.
- Geo
- 40.441, -79.996 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-pittsburgh-mckees-rocks-southwest-of-pa-1975-d56565
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Pittsburgh (Mckees Rocks, southwest of), PA.
- This case is one of 15 Pennsylvania reports filed in 1975.
- Fireball craft made up 2.6% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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