Reno, NV, USA
Undefined shaped object with vertical bars of white/red/green flashing lights traveling silently across Pyramid lake from south to west
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-18
- Where
- Reno, NV, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 39.530, -119.814 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-reno-nv-2017-67faa0
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
- This is one of 189 reports logged in Reno, NV.
- This case is one of 58 Nevada reports filed in 2017.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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