NUFORC Sighting 11448

Occurred: 1997-10-30 07:30 Local
Reported: 1999-12-23 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Shape: Disk

observed stationary disk object hovering in clear daylight about 100 feet driving nearly beneath it.

A coworker and I were on the job in a company truck. We left our plant downtown pittsburgh heading north east across the duquesne bridge on route 8/28 buypass for the 32nd street bridge. I was in the passenger seat and from the duquesne bridge we both saw and object at a distance further up the road. It was flat on the bottom and sloped to a near point on top. Driving closer we could see it was brown about 100 feet up hovering above the rail tracks between the roadway and the HJ Heinz food plant. We drove almost beneath it. I could see more of it than he out my window. The bottom was a lighter brown seamless with three evenly placed half round protrusions. The rim had a lip which covered the protrusions from a distance.It was about 30-50 feet in diameter. The sky was clear. There was alot of morning rush hour traffic it would have been hard to stop and we never thought of it because by the time we realized what we just saw it was too late. When we turned right on the 32nd street bridge I looked out my window, it was gone. That evening I listened for some report on TV, there was none.

Posted 2000-01-07