Las Vegas, NV, USA
A Sphere of light was seen hovering next to the Stratosphere building in Las Vegas.
Report quality: High77/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-09-26
- Where
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-las-vegas-nv-2008-beac59
Part of a wave
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
September 2008 was a busy month for Las Vegas, NV: 6 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 619 reports logged in Las Vegas, NV.
- This case is one of 70 Nevada reports filed in 2008.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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