UFOMYST
CaseCircle2004

Lake Tahoe, NV, USA

Large bright white circular object travelling in a straight line at a low angle to the horizon which emitted a pendant shaped gas emiss

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-01-03
Where
Lake Tahoe, NV, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
39.145, -120.096 · fallback
Slug
circle-over-lake-tahoe-nv-2004-216132
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Lake Tahoe, NV shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 50 reports came from Nevada in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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