CaseLight1997

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Set of 7 or 8 orange lights moving silently at airliner velocity, size and altitude over Las Vegas Nevada

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 (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-09
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
light-over-las-vegas-nv-1997-72316c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • Las Vegas, NV shows up 619 times across the archive.
  • 29 reports came from Nevada in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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