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
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: 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
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
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 daysReport
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