Las Vegas, NV, USA
My wife and I watched 3 craft fly accross the airport grounds headed towards our hotel and become stationary above us.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-09-09
- Where
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-las-vegas-nv-1997-85334a
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- This is one of 619 reports logged in Las Vegas, NV.
- This case is one of 29 Nevada reports filed in 1997.
- Formation craft made up 2.7% of 1990s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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