Mesquite, NV, USA
when below the clouds, object appeared to change shapes, looked black, and something was emitted or dropped from object or craft,
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-12-22
- Where
- Mesquite, NV, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 10 min
- Geo
- 36.806, -114.067 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-mesquite-nv-2005-84e07b
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 13 reports logged in Mesquite, NV.
- This case is one of 56 Nevada reports filed in 2005.
- Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
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.