Sparks, NV, USA
Twenty or so little white balls in the sky flying around together. Too high for birds to fly.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-16
- Where
- Sparks, NV, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 39.535, -119.753 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-sparks-nv-2013-cd1c32
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
- One of 38 documented reports from Sparks, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
- Nevada logged 53 sightings in 2013.
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.