Reno, NV, USA
I saw 3 lights in a diagonal line equally spaced apart. (("Spacelink" satellites??)
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 (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-01-01
- Where
- Reno, NV, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.530, -119.814 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-reno-nv-2020-6f4af0
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
3 reports came out of Reno, NV in January 2020 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Reno, NV has 189 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 93 reports from Nevada.
- The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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