Sparks, NV, USA
Linear formation of white dots flying at high speed North East towards Pyramid Lake over Spanish Springs.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-02
- Where
- Sparks, NV, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 39.535, -119.753 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-sparks-nv-2020-76d657
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
- One of 38 documented reports from Sparks, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
- Nevada logged 93 sightings in 2020.
- Formation sightings ran at 5.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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