UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2017

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Stationary or moving in straight or right angles. Body red and green lights. Wings flashing lights. Very large tail end. Above North La

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-16
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
4 hours
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-las-vegas-nv-2017-24298e
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 →

In context

  • Las Vegas, NV has 619 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 58 reports from Nevada.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.7% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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