CaseFireball1998
Las Vegas/Nellis AFB, NV, USA
I work for KVBC Channel 3 in Las Vegas. I didn't see the objects myself. We recieved about 30+ phone calls about fireballs over Nellis
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-16
- Where
- Las Vegas/Nellis AFB, NV, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30mins
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-las-vegas-nellis-afb-nv-1998-8f93af
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Las Vegas/Nellis AFB, NV.
- This case is one of 30 Nevada reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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