Las Vegas, NV, USA
I call hoax
Report quality: Low30/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (11 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2012-06-29
- Where
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-las-vegas-nv-2012-b8f9b2
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
Las Vegas, NV logged 6 reports in the single month of June 2012.
In context
- One of 619 documented reports from Las Vegas, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
- Nevada logged 86 sightings in 2012.
- Cigar sightings ran at 1.9% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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