CaseLight2010

Reno, NV, USA

Strange lights over Reno on Christmas eve

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2010-12-24
Where
Reno, NV, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
39.530, -119.814 · exact
Slug
light-over-reno-nv-2010-aafa09
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…

In context

  • One of 189 documented reports from Reno, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Nevada logged 50 sightings in 2010.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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