CaseFormation2018

Las Vegas, NV, USA

I usually always daze at the stars and always see these orange orbs and I’ve never thought nothing of it because I’m a firm believer

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: 11s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-11-14
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
11 seconds
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
formation-over-las-vegas-nv-2018-604790
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…

In context

  • One of 619 documented reports from Las Vegas, NV in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Nevada logged 58 sightings in 2018.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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