UFOMYST
CaseOther2016

Reno, NV, USA

Looking south from Reno, object "floating," with long trail from west to east. ((NUFORC Note: Space debris. PD))

Report quality: Moderate53/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-07-27
Where
Reno, NV, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
39.530, -119.814 · exact
Slug
other-over-reno-nv-2016-bf7999
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

July 2016 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 64 Nevada reports filed in 2016.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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