Las Vegas, NV, USA
Driving on 95S, saw a triangle with an inverted bottom, outlined in chasing white lights. ((NUFORC Note: Former law enforcement. PD))
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-01-05
- Where
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- i don't know
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-las-vegas-nv-2016-1c37b3
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
5 reports came out of Las Vegas, NV in January 2016 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Las Vegas, NV has 619 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 64 reports from Nevada.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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