CaseUnknown2017

Reno, NV, USA

I had just left work and was driving on west on W. Fourth Street in Reno. I pulled into Taco Bell and I noticed these 3 red lights drif

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-28
Where
Reno, NV, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
39.530, -119.814 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-reno-nv-2017-ace332
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…

In context

  • Reno, NV shows up 189 times across the archive.
  • 58 reports came from Nevada in 2017.

Report

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