Reno, NV, USA
I saw a bright white light shooting across the sky, which at first I thought was a shooting star. Then milliseconds later I saw an obje
Report quality: Moderate67/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-02
- Where
- Reno, NV, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 39.530, -119.814 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-reno-nv-2015-c3047a
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…
Local cluster
August 2015 was a busy month for Reno, NV: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 189 reports logged in Reno, NV.
- This case is one of 111 Nevada reports filed in 2015.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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