Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 2, 1965, a witness reported a translucent orange-yellow-white oval orb with a bright center streaking from west to east in about 20 seconds.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (180 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-02
- Where
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 40.441, -79.996 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-pittsburgh-pa-1965-be4a89
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Pittsburgh, PA has 190 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 22 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 1960s skewed 6.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.