UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Las Vegas, NV, USA

FIREBALL OVER NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-05-03
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-las-vegas-nv-2012-9c00fe
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

May 2012 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 86 Nevada reports filed in 2012.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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