Reno, NV, USA
Listened to radio on the way from San Jose to Reno, NV. We listened to Artbell on his AM talk radio. We just viewed what we thought w
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-15
- Where
- Reno, NV, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 39.530, -119.814 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-reno-nv-1997-a44574
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Reno, NV shows up 189 times across the archive.
- 29 reports came from Nevada in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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