UFOMYST
CaseFlash2016

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Brief brilliant flash of light in the SW sky in Vegas. Like a light burning out.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-06-25
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
Seconds
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
flash-over-las-vegas-nv-2016-163b22
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Las Vegas, NV reports filed in June 2016.

In context

  • Las Vegas, NV shows up 619 times across the archive.
  • 64 reports came from Nevada in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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