CaseFireball2018
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Pittsburgh ascending fireball.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (30 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-07-29
- Where
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.441, -79.996 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-pittsburgh-pa-2018-ee8c7d
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 190 reports logged in Pittsburgh, PA.
- This case is one of 94 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2018.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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