CaseUnknown2008

Las Vegas (approx 200 mi north of), NV, USA

3 lighted craft passed slowly off the left wing of our plane over central Nevada

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-09-11
Where
Las Vegas (approx 200 mi north of), NV, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
20 sec
Geo
36.175, -115.137 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-las-vegas-approx-200-mi-north-of-nv-2008-ca24bd
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 1 reports logged in Las Vegas (approx 200 mi north of), NV.
  • This case is one of 70 Nevada reports filed in 2008.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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