UFOMYST
CaseOval2009

Death Valley (Stovepipe Wells), CA, USA

Rust-orange colored segmented lights in a curving oblong shape at least a half mile in length.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-17
Where
Death Valley (Stovepipe Wells), CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
6-9 Seconds
Geo
36.240, -116.811 · exact
Slug
oval-over-death-valley-stovepipe-wells-ca-2009-6c8e81
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 1 documented reports from Death Valley (Stovepipe Wells), CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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