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CaseChevron1997

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Las Vegas, Nevada -MARCH 12,1997 1.5 MILE WIDE CHEVRON FORMATION OF LIGHTS SILENTLY GLIDES W. TO E. AT 8:40 pm.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (111 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-03-12
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
several minutes
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-las-vegas-nv-1997-408ae6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

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Local cluster

Local cluster

March 1997 was a busy month for Las Vegas, NV: 4 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 619 reports logged in Las Vegas, NV.
  • This case is one of 29 Nevada reports filed in 1997.
  • Chevron craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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