Minden, NV, USA
A strange orange light big enough to be enough to be plane moved across the sky but soon stopped and soon phased out
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-26
- Where
- Minden, NV, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.954, -119.766 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-minden-nv-2008-d59ea1
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
- Minden, NV shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 70 reports came from Nevada in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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