UFOMYST
CaseFormation1997

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Formation of balls of light travelling across the sky, one behind the other, early in 1997.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-02-14
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5 minutes +/-
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
formation-over-las-vegas-nv-1997-3a960b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 619 documented reports from Las Vegas, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Nevada logged 29 sightings in 1997.
  • Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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