CaseFireball2003
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Las Vegas Fireball seen at Spanish Trails after the storm passed on Saturday Aug 16, 2003
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-08-16
- Where
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-las-vegas-nv-2003-b5b316
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Las Vegas, NV reports filed in August 2003.
In context
- Las Vegas, NV shows up 619 times across the archive.
- 39 reports came from Nevada in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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