UFOMYST
CaseOval2016

Las Vegas, NV, USA

((NUFORC Note: No information provided by source, who elects to remain anonymous. PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • No witness text on file
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-09-30
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
oval-over-las-vegas-nv-2016-83be8e
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Las Vegas, NV reports filed in September 2016.

In context

  • Las Vegas, NV shows up 619 times across the archive.
  • 64 reports came from Nevada in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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