Sun Valley, NV, USA
A Ball of red and orange with a tail like a comet kept up with my car. My son and I saw it.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-30
- Where
- Sun Valley, NV, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 20 Seconds
- Geo
- 39.596, -119.776 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-sun-valley-nv-2005-35ea22
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 Sun Valley, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
- Nevada logged 56 sightings in 2005.
- Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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