Elko, NV, USA
2 lights performed a slingshot maneuver obtaining great speed shooting off in opposite directions.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-15
- Where
- Elko, NV, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 15 second
- Geo
- 40.832, -115.763 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-elko-nv-2005-a2985a
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
- Elko, NV shows up 23 times across the archive.
- 56 reports came from Nevada in 2005.
Report
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