CaseOval2016

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Object moved south west from miserable Airport passing over mountain near German high school passing three aircraft moving East to west

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-18
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 minute
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
oval-over-las-vegas-nv-2016-7323f8
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

September 2016 was a busy month for Las Vegas, NV: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 619 reports logged in Las Vegas, NV.
  • This case is one of 64 Nevada reports filed in 2016.
  • 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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