I-80 (47 miles west of UT), NV, USA
Heading west on Hwy 80, about 47 miles into NV (from UT). NW of the highway in the distance. It looked like a ball of flame.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-12-04
- Where
- I-80 (47 miles west of UT), NV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-i-80-47-miles-west-of-ut-nv-2014-cd0af1
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
- I-80 (47 miles west of UT), NV shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 98 reports came from Nevada in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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