UFOMYST
CaseCigar1978

Las Vegas (??), NV, USA

not been noted on any sighting that i have heard of.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-11-15
Where
Las Vegas (??), NV, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 min
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-las-vegas-nv-1978-aff061
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

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In context

  • Las Vegas (??), NV has 619 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 2 reports from Nevada.
  • The 1970s skewed 5.2% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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