CaseCircle2020

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Red glowing ball shaped light. Was looking at it move slowly north. Only red light was seen glowing.slowly light dies out. Dissapears.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-15
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
circle-over-las-vegas-nv-2020-015689
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Las Vegas, NV reports filed in January 2020.

In context

  • Las Vegas, NV shows up 619 times across the archive.
  • 93 reports came from Nevada in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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