UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Reno, NV, USA

I noticed a white spot in the sky far higher than balloons or kites. I grabbed binoculars and I could tell that the spot was a lit ring

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-06-06
Where
Reno, NV, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 hour +
Geo
39.530, -119.814 · exact
Slug
circle-over-reno-nv-2017-4891fc
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Reno, NV logged 4 reports in the single month of June 2017.

In context

  • One of 189 documented reports from Reno, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Nevada logged 58 sightings in 2017.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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