As reported

Chevron over Truckee, CA

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The report, as filed

Quick flying "v" shaped object, red and white lights outside Truckee/Tahoe CA

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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June 21, 2018 · 12:00 AM · FLASH

Truckee, CA

I am a retired RF Engineer living here in Truckee California where the skies are clear and dark at night. I occasionally watch the eastern sky hoping to see something interesting. I got my wish, at 10PM on Thursday, June 21st, looking easterly in the heavens where satellites pass by I looked closely for movement and was about to give up when I saw a brilliant bright flash and from that flash emerged a lightly glowing orange object which began moving across the horizon to the north at an incredibly fast speed, gone and out of sight in about 90 seconds. Never have I witnessed anything that unusual in the skies before. The following night while asleep I was awoken from a dream where I was outside watching the skies when a small UFO no bigger than a motorcycle zoomed up next to me and in my head I knew I was not to tell anyone about what I saw that night. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

July 27, 2016 · 9:40 PM · FIREBALL

Truckee, CA

Observed for second time within month of July including today, July 27, 2016, about 9:40pm. Objects appeared to be fixed together about 50ft apart. Two red-orange glowing balls of light with a cloud-like glow trailing behind each 'unit' and making them appear like comet trails about 1-1/2 times in length longer than the width of the units or glowing balls. At first appearance it seemed like perhaps two closely piloted helicopters carrying glowing balls rigid to their bodies and the glow lingering in a trailing cloud or mist behind them. There was no sound from the object or possible paired objects. It flew from west to east overhead maybe two hundred feet above Interstate 80 going past Donner Lake in Truckee, toward Reno. It traveled about the same speed as freeway traffic below in a straight path coincident with the freeway. The appearance of the two glowing balls of light with glowing tails, the lack of any audible noise, the steady and straight navigation, and with no experiences in my life of seeing such object(s) in night sky in my lifetime, and the seeing such an event twice in the same month, all provoked me to research the Internet for any such similar sightings tonight or in the past. I found this site and read the report for California UFO sightings and found some were similar to mine, so in the interest of contributing to this data am filing this report for the record. Chinese rocket re-entry. PD

March 15, 2015 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT

Truckee, CA

Alerted by civilians to lights in the sky. Walked out with three partners and looked to north sky. Saw 6-7 lights moving In a a group. Lights would change direction rapidly and move laterally any direction. One light sped up very rapidly and appeared to taunt the other light. It would rotate around the other light in a movement best described as a pendulum movement. Those lights then rapidly separated and moved toward one of the other lights and immediately formed a perfectly sided triangle which held in place for a few minutes. Two of the other In the group continued east of the triangle and then all lights moved together spread out but in a group moving to the north until they went behind a large mountain range. Just prior to loosing sight of the group what could be called a rogue light came along into our view traveling north east and then instantly change direction to move due north as if to catch the larger group. The movements were not terrestrial in any way shape or form. No sounds no blinking lights just a constant white light.

August 13, 2011 · 9:30 PM · DIAMOND