CaseTeardrop2020

Las Vegas, NV, USA

At approximately 16:30 on 07/03/20, whole driving northbound on Maryland Pky/ Paradise rd (cross street Windmill), I observed a bright

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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  • Duration parsed: 330s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-07-03
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
5-6 minutes
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-las-vegas-nv-2020-f0453e
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

Las Vegas, NV logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2020.

In context

  • One of 619 documented reports from Las Vegas, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Nevada logged 93 sightings in 2020.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 0.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 0.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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