CaseCone2005
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Large glowing streak in sky with two strange objects.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-21
- Where
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-las-vegas-nv-2005-4c60ed
Wave
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 619 reports logged in Las Vegas, NV.
- This case is one of 56 Nevada reports filed in 2005.
- Cone craft made up 0.5% of 2000s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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