UFOMYST
CaseCircle2013

Sparks, NV, USA

On a crystal clear winter night, I watched a bright blue ball descend at about a 35-degree angle west of our house.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-12-21
Where
Sparks, NV, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
39.535, -119.753 · exact
Slug
circle-over-sparks-nv-2013-5243af
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

  • Sparks, NV shows up 38 times across the archive.
  • 53 reports came from Nevada in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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