UFOMYST
CaseCircle2007

Fernley, NV, USA

((HOAX??)) UFO'S HOUVER OVER DESERT FLOOR AROUND ABOUT 10,000 FT.

Report quality: Low14/100

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  • Duration parsed: 16200s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2007-08-20
Where
Fernley, NV, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
4-5 hrs
Geo
39.608, -119.252 · exact
Slug
circle-over-fernley-nv-2007-37686d
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Fernley, NV shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 58 reports came from Nevada in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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