UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Las Vegas (SE of), NV, USA

Luminous sphere (white) travelling due west at a very high velocity (it slowed down and then accelerated). It moved along a ridge of a

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-01-18
Where
Las Vegas (SE of), NV, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5-10 sec
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-las-vegas-se-of-nv-1997-0a73fc
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Las Vegas (SE of), NV shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 29 reports came from Nevada in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.