Nevada UFO Sightings
06-28-1947 Lake Meade, NV
Flying his Air Force jet near Lake Meade, Lt. Armstrong observed a formation of five to six metallic disc-shaped objects flying at an altitude of 6,000ft.
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August 31, 1985
LOCATION: LAUGHLIN, NV
DATE: 31 AUGUST 1985 TIME: 22:30 HOURS SOURCE: NAT'L UFO REPORTING CENTER One witness reports while driving his car on highway 95 near Laughlin that he sighted an object coming up off the ground and flying over the road going towards a house were it hovered for a while. The witness said the object then shined down a light on it then the light went out. The witness said it was the brightist light he had ever seen. He said the color of the light was bluish white. The witness said then the object flew over the road and shined down a light on a parked car and hovered there till the lights went out again. The witness was still in his car at this time. He said that the object then came over to his car and shined down two lights. He could not see the outline of theobject but only the bright lights. The witness also said that the object was hovering 5 feet off the ground and the distance from the object to his car was about 20 feet away. He then lost sight of it. The witness said that the length of the object was about two cars long. He also said that the shape of the light looked like a shaft. The witness said that his car radio went off when the sighting took place.
RED UFO SEEN HOVERING OVER RENO, NEVADA
On Tuesday, December 9, 1997, at 5:15 p.m., a red UFO five times the size of a star appeared over the city of Reno, Nevada (population 133,850).
One witness described the object as "a bright red strobing light." The UFO remained over the city for one hour, moving erratically across the sky, occasionally halting and hovering for several minutes at a time. The last reported sighting of the UFO was at 6:15 p.m. Local TV station KRNV Channel 4 videotaped the object and aired the video on its late evening broadcast. Radio station KKOH (780 AM) received "plenty of phone calls about the object." Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ground crew at the Reno-Tahoe Municipal Airport off Greg Street reported that they did not spot the UFO on radar. However, several FAA workers reportedly observed the object with binoculars from the airport runway. The Reno Gazette-Journal checked with Desert Research Institute, which launches upper atmosphere research balloons, but the institute said the UFO was not a "runaway balloon" of theirs. A check of local helicopter companies revealed that no helicopters were aloft at the time. The Lake Tahoe Naval Air Station told the Gazette-Journal that they "had not seen the object and had no flights up at that time." Reno is located on Interstate Highway 80 in western Nevada, approximately 32 miles (51 kilometers) northwest of Carson City, the state capital. (See the Reno, Nev. Gazette-Journal for December 10, 1993, page B-2)