UFOMYST
CaseSphere2008

Reno, NV, USA

Normally you can't see bright stars in downtown Reno but when i was looking up at the sky i saw a bright sphere dance around for a se

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-09
Where
Reno, NV, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 secs
Geo
39.530, -119.814 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-reno-nv-2008-82c3ce
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

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In context

  • One of 189 documented reports from Reno, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Nevada logged 70 sightings in 2008.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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