NUFORC Sighting 11898

Occurred: 1979-10-01 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2000-02-07 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 50

Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Shape: Disk

Disk appeared over stadium at end of game... spun like a coin on a table...game ended ... never heard a thing about it.

It was late in the game...they broke for comerical...Chuck conners selling gun toy...break back to stadium in mid comercial...Pat Summeral says " We dont know what it is we are showing you" in exicted voice.Metallic disk is shown spinning in sky above 50 yard line 1 to 3 hundred feet in air ...disk is 10 to 30 foot diameter... crowd becomes deathly quiet... penalty called on Dallas player...was staring at disk...failed to get into position...game ends... Pittsburg 14...Dallas 3...Camera is on disk...Summeral says "If it lands they will say take me to your leader"...break to commercial...does not return to stadium...never heard or read a thing about it.

NUFORC Note:

We presume the witness meant that the sighting occurred at 9:00 p.m.. We have changed the time, predicated on that assumption.

Posted 2000-02-16