Reno, NV, USA
Hi, I’m a huge skeptic who wants to believe, and I think I just saw the stereotypical orb of fire. I was sitting on my porch, just star
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-05-15
- Where
- Reno, NV, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 39.530, -119.814 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-reno-nv-2018-1035c1
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Reno, NV reports filed in May 2018.
In context
- Reno, NV shows up 189 times across the archive.
- 58 reports came from Nevada in 2018.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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