CaseFormation2014

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

5 red lights hovering over airport.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-11-11
Where
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.441, -79.996 · exact
Slug
formation-over-pittsburgh-pa-2014-0fa8ad
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 382 Pennsylvania reports filed in 2014.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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