Las Vegas, NV, USA
Green lights across las vegas, fast, tightly formationed and switching places, low flying and gone within 30 seconds.
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-07
- Where
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 20 to 30 seconds
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-las-vegas-nv-2009-e3b104
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…
Local cluster
April 2009 was a busy month for Las Vegas, NV: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 619 reports logged in Las Vegas, NV.
- This case is one of 48 Nevada reports filed in 2009.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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