South Lake Tahoe, NV, USA
Strange blue triangle with lights appears in photo. ((NUFORC Note: Lens flares. PD))
Report quality: Low28/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2018-10-08
- Where
- South Lake Tahoe, NV, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 38.933, -119.984 · fallback
- Slug
- triangle-over-south-lake-tahoe-nv-2018-0923f3
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
- South Lake Tahoe, NV has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 58 reports from Nevada.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
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.