Pyramid Lake, NV, USA
Extremely large noisy object seen at close range lights up mountainside and takes off.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-12-10
- Where
- Pyramid Lake, NV, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- aprox 5 mins
- Geo
- 40.045, -119.565 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-pyramid-lake-nv-2007-1f58e7
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Pyramid Lake, NV.
- This case is one of 58 Nevada reports filed in 2007.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.