CaseSphere1961
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
In 1961, a young girl on a country lane near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reported an orange-yellow sphere the size of a small house hovering above trees about fifty feet away.
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: 510s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (173 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-08-05
- Where
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 7-10 min
- Geo
- 40.441, -79.996 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-pittsburgh-pa-1961-dd1e7e
In context
- Pittsburgh, PA has 190 sightings on file here.
- 1961 brought 4 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 1960s skewed 7.8% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
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.