Pittsburgh/New Castle, PA, USA
Traveling East bound on I-76 (Penn. Turnpike) at mile marker 12/13. I witnessed an extremely bright blue. ((Meteor??))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-24
- Where
- Pittsburgh/New Castle, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15-20 Seconds
- Geo
- 40.441, -79.996 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-pittsburgh-new-castle-pa-2004-251a88
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
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In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Pittsburgh/New Castle, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Pennsylvania logged 137 sightings in 2004.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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