UFOMYST
CaseDisk1952

Nellis AFB (Las Vegas), NV, USA

A witness at Nellis AFB near Las Vegas, Nevada reported a disk-shaped object, observed for about 30 minutes in February 1952.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1952-02-17
Where
Nellis AFB (Las Vegas), NV, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 mins
Geo
36.246, -115.057 · exact
Slug
disk-over-nellis-afb-las-vegas-nv-1952-e3c424
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1952

    The 1952 Flap & the Washington Merry-Go-Round

    United States, focal point Washington D.C.

    The biggest official flap in U.S. history. On the weekends of July 19-20 and 26-27, unknowns tracked on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB — with simultaneous visual and airborne confirmations —…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Nellis AFB (Las Vegas), NV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Nevada logged 1 sightings in 1952.
  • Disk sightings ran at 28.1% during the 1950s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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