Sphere over Las Vegas, NV
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was at home and outside having a cigarette when I looked up to the eastern sky and a bright sphere shaped object was stationary in the sky. At first I thought, hum it’s too bright during the afternoon for a star to be visible. The object just appeared and didn’t seem to originate from any direction. It was a white yellowish in color and was brighter in appearance. I went inside and got my Sony A330 DLSR with Sony 75-300mm lens. As I got outside it was gone and I couldn’t spot it but figured on keeping my camera if something else came around for a picture. As a lawn care technician came to work on the yard sprinklers I looked to the northern sky and the bright object was there. I mentioned it to him and in broken English said yeah I see it, and laughed a little bit. I was able to get a few pictures of it but being a very small bright object in the sky that looked like a bright star. I figured just a couple would do and I don’t have video. After wa! tching it for about 15 minutes, and It accelerated at amazing high rate of speed to the North and the object vanished. Faster than any known aircraft I know of and rivals shooting stars and satellites. The lawn care guy didn’t hang around to watch but he got a look but I guess he had to get back to work. Also not sure if the bright objects at different times are the same or different because I didn’t see it move from the eastern sky to the northern sky. I am in the United States Air Force and living on Nellis AFB and I can watch aircraft from Nellis AFB coming and going, as well as the air traffic lanes for takeoff and landing from North Las Vegas Airport and McCarran International Airport are great reference. All there is a commercial air traffic route over Las Vegas as well so I get to see a lot of different aircraft at different altitudes and speeds.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #109739). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-05-18 → 2014-06-04
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