CaseUnknown2011
Tonapah, NV, USA
U.S. Goverment testing strange craft
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.
- Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-02-03
- Where
- Tonapah, NV, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 min
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- unknown-over-tonapah-nv-2011-2585ab
Wave
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
- Tonapah, NV has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 53 reports from Nevada.
Report
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