UFOMYST
CaseLight2018

Elko, NV, USA

Was walking dog and looking at stars and saw four flashing red lights moving from south to north in an area north of town called N. 5th

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-01
Where
Elko, NV, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4-5 minutes
Geo
40.832, -115.763 · exact
Slug
light-over-elko-nv-2018-df8a47
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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In context

  • One of 23 documented reports from Elko, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Nevada logged 58 sightings in 2018.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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