Reno, NV, USA
A color-changing, spark-like migrating light in the western sky -- seen in Reno, NV ((NUFORC Note: Possibly Sirius. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 5100s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-02-27
- Where
- Reno, NV, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 hour + 25 min
- Geo
- 39.530, -119.814 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-reno-nv-2005-c004ed
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
- This is one of 189 reports logged in Reno, NV.
- This case is one of 56 Nevada reports filed in 2005.
Nearby in space & time
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