CaseOther1998
Reno (30 miles due east of, in California), CA, USA
Object appeared to look like a star moving SE overhead. Object stopped then continued. Picked up speed and turned a perfect 90 degrees
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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-04-30
- Where
- Reno (30 miles due east of, in California), CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 35 Seconds
- Geo
- 39.530, -119.814 · fallback
- Slug
- other-over-reno-30-miles-due-east-of-in-california-ca-1998-5b61ac
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Reno (30 miles due east of, in California), CA.
- This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
- Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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