Las Vegas, NV, USA
Was driving towards the freeway in nw Las Vegas, looked out my window and saw a long rectangle light flying horizontal.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-27
- Where
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-las-vegas-nv-2015-af9142
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Las Vegas, NV reports filed in August 2015.
In context
- Las Vegas, NV shows up 619 times across the archive.
- 111 reports came from Nevada in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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