Other over Pittsburgh, PA
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The report, as filed
Mock helicopter seen above city of Pittsburgh.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2012-01-07 → 2012-01-24
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December 8, 2023 · 8:00 PM · CHEVRON
Pittsburgh, PA
Tonight, on Dec. 8th, 2023, I saw a large air craft in the sky unlike any I have seen before. I saw it clearly. It was a chevron shaped craft, with a straight row of lights in the back. The lights were a greenish blue. The craft looked like dark gray metal. It was flying on a diagonal in the sky through my neighborhood. I called to my husband to run out and he took a video with his phone. By the time he came out, it was farther away. When I watched the video, the lights were behaving differently on the video than I saw with my naked eyes. This has now confused me a bit because now I can't remember how exactly the lights were behaving, but I noticed it was definitely different on the video than what I had seen. He said maybe it's a helicopter or a drone, but I disagreed and said it was shaped like a bat, and very huge, and I had watched it when it was closer and not so far away when he saw it in the cloudy sky. I drew a quick hand sketch of it when I came inside, and sent it to my friend. She found this sight and sent me back similar images. On this sight, I see the chevron as an option and that's the shape! I posted this on my facebook. Everyone is shocked! [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
November 11, 2023 · 9:36 PM · CIRCLE
Pittsburgh, PA
it's white and is larger than stars and is seen nightly between the hours of 9pm and 10pm est hovering over the building of moorhead tower apartments or across the street from the building; as you walk down the street, the object appears to follow you; when you stop moving it stops moving; at times it is seen hovering directly over the building; numerous tenants in the building have observed this and classified it as a drone of some sort [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Probable]
August 20, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Pittsburgh, PA
Looking west we saw a bright light. It moved slowly for about 15 seconds then went out. A few seconds later the light appeared again, but was traveling in a different direction. There was only one light seen at a time. It did this maybe three times and then it stopped completely. About a half an hour later but looking straight up and more northeast, it appeared again. It did the same routine as described from the first time. I’m on my deck watching planes, helicopters, tracking stars and satellites every night. This wasn’t any of that. It was also not a shooting star…I am very familiar with those.
May 22, 2023 · 8:02 PM · CIRCLE
Pittsburgh, PA
I saw an object traveling through the jet trail of an airplane. It was traveling faster than the plane. When it reached the plane, it passed right by it and kept going. I wasn't able to get my phone out and start recording until it was already at the plane and passed it.
February 10, 2023 · 6:48 PM · CHANGING
Pittsburgh, PA
There were 3 very bright lights low in the sky hovering with vibration sound that got loud then low loud and low they were formed as a triangle shape in the sky 1 of the disk shot a blinding beam on the ground seconds later the 3 disk shot together so fast as if they almost recked into each other took off so fast it vanished we was trying to call the news by the time we got threw to them and camera crew got there it was too late that this happened so fast and the news told us they had several other calls come in on this sighting it was so awesome to see I have goose bumps and tears in my eyes righting this because this was awesome to see you had to be there to believe it on god it was amazing we are not alone in this world
January 17, 2023 · 10:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Pittsburgh, PA
Tonight we observed what seems to be an unidentified flying object. My dad and I were watching adventure time when we heard a loud and abrasive rumbling from above. It was dark out, and we were unable to get a clear read of what the objects body might look like, but there were red and white, blinking white lights. The craft seemed to be shaped, not unlike a disk with its red lights, blinking on top, and below the central part of the ship. The white lights seem to blink, left and right on the craft edge. The craft circle back a three times or perhaps it was multiple crafts crafts, each time quieter and higher in the sky. Drone?