Minden, NV, USA
A light moving from south to north at a very rapid pace.Stopped about my 12 o'clock blew up into a bright ball (about 3 seconds) and th
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-04-02
- Where
- Minden, NV, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.954, -119.766 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-minden-nv-2015-c93bfb
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 7 documented reports from Minden, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
- Nevada logged 111 sightings in 2015.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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