UFOMYST
CaseOval2012

Pittsburgh (general area), PA, USA

Yellowish orange orb

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (20 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-15
Where
Pittsburgh (general area), PA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.441, -79.996 · exact
Slug
oval-over-pittsburgh-general-area-pa-2012-464363
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Pittsburgh (general area), PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 297 sightings in 2012.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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