UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2011

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Bright metallic blimp shaped object flying east right between the flight path of two planes.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-08-23
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-las-vegas-nv-2011-b4d257
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Las Vegas, NV reports filed in August 2011.

In context

  • Las Vegas, NV shows up 619 times across the archive.
  • 53 reports came from Nevada in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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