Rose Mountain Pass, NV, USA
A very bright capsule shaped object high in the sky was seen by my wife and me as we drove along the Mount Rose pass catching our atten
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-09
- Where
- Rose Mountain Pass, NV, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cigar-over-rose-mountain-pass-nv-2011-c6f750
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
- Rose Mountain Pass, NV has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 53 reports from Nevada.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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