Tonopah, NV, USA
11/05/07 21:00p.m. 10 miles N of Tonopah Nev. Cigar shape with 3 bright red/orange circles inside instantly appeared and 5 sec. later i
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-11-05
- Where
- Tonopah, NV, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 sec.
- Geo
- 38.067, -117.230 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-tonopah-nv-2007-2b0fa7
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 7 reports logged in Tonopah, NV.
- This case is one of 58 Nevada reports filed in 2007.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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