UFOMYST
CaseOval2007

Reno, NV, USA

White spherical object over Reno Nevada at 18:00 starting just above tree level, over airport then over mountains.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-05-12
Where
Reno, NV, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 min
Geo
39.530, -119.814 · exact
Slug
oval-over-reno-nv-2007-4338f2
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

  • Reno, NV shows up 189 times across the archive.
  • 58 reports came from Nevada in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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