UFOMYST
CaseDisk2018

Death Valley, CA, USA

UFO that split into two, later it takes off emitting a blue streak .

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-03
Where
Death Valley, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 hours
Geo
36.240, -116.811 · exact
Slug
disk-over-death-valley-ca-2018-5180c5
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

  • One of 6 documented reports from Death Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 331 sightings in 2018.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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