Other over Las Vegas, NV
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The report, as filed
looking up at the sky just relaxing by the pool in a lawn chair saw something moving oddly. it kinda looked like it was hiccuping moving in quick short jolts, then turned directions randomly. was way higher than any plane. suddenly after about 2 min of watching 2 glowing edges showed up about 4 times the size of the original light i was watching. that stopped after about 2 min and again just hiccuped around like it was before. for about 45 min just kind of moving all over the place at the same speeds as before. light got brighter a couple of times, none of those lines though then suddenly from the dot lights extended from the sides and the same lights i saw before. at this point i believe these were thrusters rocket like on jet and it was leaving the atmosphere here. why im saying that is it had many issues getting out and bouncing rapidly as if it was using everything it had to get into space. after about 5 min it stopped and turned back into a dot. then 5 ! min later it lit up all the thrusters again. still having issues bouncing around but was defiantly getting higher and seemed to finally get into orbit. same lights did show up every 5 min and got smaller and smaller till i could barley see it just a tiny dot going away. it had to have been huge considering to see the thrusters from that distance. ironically i heard jets suddenly in the distance towards the end from nelis air force base im guessing. was way to late for them if thats what that was about. i have seen other things in the sky 3 other times in my life but nothing like this. this is the most interesting one to me because it wasnt as fast as anything else i have seen before and with the issues it seemed to have to leave earth it seemed like it was new to doing this. it was to far to catch on my camera. somewhere i have cough saucers in the middle of the day in las vegas about 6 years ago even got all the neighbors out and everybody saw what i saw so i know i was not out of my mind. again just excited i did see what i saw and could pass a lie detector test if asked about this or any other things i have seen. this one is just blowing my mind. it was amazing
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #127658). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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