CaseOval2010

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Circular object with blue/red/green flashing center lights and glowing edges seen over Las Vegas skies. ((NUFORC Note: Stars?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2010-11-04
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 hours
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
oval-over-las-vegas-nv-2010-bca257
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

  • This is one of 619 reports logged in Las Vegas, NV.
  • This case is one of 50 Nevada reports filed in 2010.
  • Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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