Las Vegas, NV, USA
((HOAX??)) Short encounter with space craft on my way into my parking lot area.
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2004-10-01
- Where
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- A few seconds
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-las-vegas-nv-2004-beeafb
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…
In context
- Las Vegas, NV has 619 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 50 reports from Nevada.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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