UFOMYST
CaseCircle2008

Las Vegas, NV, USA

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Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2008-10-04
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 hour
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
circle-over-las-vegas-nv-2008-239d77
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Las Vegas, NV logged 4 reports in the single month of October 2008.

In context

  • One of 619 documented reports from Las Vegas, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Nevada logged 70 sightings in 2008.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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