CaseLight2009

Las Vegas, NV, USA

fuzzy cloud like images. ((NUFORC Note: Probably advertising lights. PD))

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (24 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-07-20
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2hours
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
light-over-las-vegas-nv-2009-3be33a
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Las Vegas, NV in July 2009 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Las Vegas, NV has 619 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 48 reports from Nevada.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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