UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2004

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Large fireball shape moving from east to west over the mtns. Noticed aircraft above it from a distance

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-11-02
Where
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
3-5 min
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-las-vegas-nv-2004-9d12c2
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Las Vegas, NV in November 2004 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Las Vegas, NV has 619 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 50 reports from Nevada.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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