Las Vegas, NV, USA
Sighting from Stratisphere observation deck
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-05-01
- Where
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 2min 30sec
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-las-vegas-nv-2006-bc8d6a
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
May 2006 was a busy month for Las Vegas, NV: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 619 reports logged in Las Vegas, NV.
- This case is one of 41 Nevada reports filed in 2006.
- Diamond craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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