Tonopah, NV, USA
We seen 1-3-4-5 Egg/Oval Shaped with very bright lights in the sky, and heard voices at night.
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-01-31
- Where
- Tonopah, NV, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 90 minutes
- Geo
- 38.067, -117.230 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-tonopah-nv-2014-ff2dd7
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
- Tonopah, NV shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 98 reports came from Nevada in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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