Meteor Sightings (6 Nov 64) - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

This document contains a sighting report and subsequent correspondence regarding unidentified aerial phenomena observed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On November 6, 1964, a Yellow Taxicab driver reported seeing three objects with fiery tails that appeared to fall toward the Greater Pittsburgh Airport, losing their light and tails approximately 500 feet above the ground. The witness, who claimed to have observed at least twenty similar objects over the previous two years, described a specific incident involving a 'fiery bright rocket like object' that fell over Mt. Washington in February 1964, accompanied by a hissing sound and the noise of 'crinkling metal foil.' The Foreign Technology Division of the Air Force Systems Command processed this report, officially classifying the events as 'Astronomical (METEOR).' In their response to the witness, the Air Force suggested that the observations were likely meteors but noted that the characteristics of reentered space vehicles are very similar to meteor observations. The Air Force provided the witness with the contact information for Dr. Charles P. Olivier of the American Meteor Society at the University of Pennsylvania, encouraging the witness to report future sightings to that organization.