Pyramid Lake, NV, USA
Small white dot that was stat., very high in the sky over Pyramid L. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a high-alt. balloon. Anonymous. PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2018-08-19
- Where
- Pyramid Lake, NV, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 40.045, -119.565 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-pyramid-lake-nv-2018-432d85
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
- Pyramid Lake, NV has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 58 reports from Nevada.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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