CaseUnknown2018

Gerlach, NV, USA

Single erratic orange light

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (27 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-14
Where
Gerlach, NV, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
ten minutes
Geo
40.652, -119.355 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-gerlach-nv-2018-804e54
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…

In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Gerlach, NV.
  • This case is one of 58 Nevada reports filed in 2018.

Report

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