Jackpot, NV, USA
Silver and black craft that showed up for one frame of a video - silent. ((NUFORC Note: Bird or insect in flight?? PD))
Report quality: Low31/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2018-06-24
- Where
- Jackpot, NV, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 41.983, -114.675 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-jackpot-nv-2018-8dd84d
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Jackpot, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
- Nevada logged 58 sightings in 2018.
- Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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