CaseFireball2015

North Las Vegas, NV, USA

((HOAX??)) I noticed what seemed to be a shooting star but was moving to slow....was above the earths atmosphere.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2015-06-09
Where
North Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
36.199, -115.118 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-north-las-vegas-nv-2015-8e0fea
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…

In context

  • This is one of 45 reports logged in North Las Vegas, NV.
  • This case is one of 111 Nevada reports filed in 2015.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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