UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

Reno, NV, USA

I was driving home on freeway going north and looked out drivers side window when i see a bright red round object in the sky right over

Report quality: High73/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-12-09
Where
Reno, NV, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30min.
Geo
39.530, -119.814 · exact
Slug
circle-over-reno-nv-1997-de1919
Wave

Part of a wave

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Reno, NV reports filed in December 1997.

In context

  • Reno, NV shows up 189 times across the archive.
  • 29 reports came from Nevada in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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