Las Vegas, NV, USA
Flaming red cigar shaped with white and yellowish tail streaking across the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Re-entering space debris. PD))
Report quality: Moderate53/100
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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-12-22
- Where
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 40 seconds
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-las-vegas-nv-2015-1dc64f
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…
Local cluster
Las Vegas, NV logged 6 reports in the single month of December 2015.
In context
- One of 619 documented reports from Las Vegas, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
- Nevada logged 111 sightings in 2015.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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