NW Las Vegas, NV, USA
Solid red light approached, about 200 feet elevation, then left after approximately 45 seconds before moving up to disappear
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-04-29
- Where
- NW Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-nw-las-vegas-nv-2018-6bb281
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…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in NW Las Vegas, NV.
- This case is one of 58 Nevada reports filed in 2018.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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