UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Rachel, NV, USA

Upward of 50 lights, mostly white with few red. Blinking moving in line, circle and triangle patterns. Lasting 4-5 mins.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-09
Where
Rachel, NV, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
37.645, -115.744 · exact
Slug
light-over-rachel-nv-2017-18efc8
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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In context

  • Rachel, NV has 18 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 58 reports from Nevada.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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