Reno, NV, USA
At approximately 7:00 p.m. we observed a large oval light directly over our Hotel near Reno/Tahoe Airport.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-06-06
- Where
- Reno, NV, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 40 minutes
- Geo
- 39.530, -119.814 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-reno-nv-2017-1c9848
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Reno, NV in June 2017 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Reno, NV has 189 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 58 reports from Nevada.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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