UFOMYST
CaseFormation2019

Reno, NV, USA

I could see a strange arc of lights in a half oval formation over the horizon of downtown Reno. I had a great view of all of downtown R

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 4560s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2019-12-28
Where
Reno, NV, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
76 minutes
Geo
39.530, -119.814 · exact
Slug
formation-over-reno-nv-2019-b50ed6
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

December 2019 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 70 Nevada reports filed in 2019.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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