Las Vegas (East of), NV, USA
A witness reported a large, saucer-shaped disk east of Las Vegas, Nevada, observed for about five minutes on July 15, 1947.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-07-15
- Where
- Las Vegas (East of), NV, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-las-vegas-east-of-nv-1947-e1b323
Part of a wave
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In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Las Vegas (East of), NV in the UFOMYST archive.
- Nevada logged 1 sightings in 1947.
- Disk sightings ran at 27.3% during the 1940s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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