Cylinder over Las Vegas, NV

The report, as filed

I made a report on this sighting already. But I found a similar report from Downers Grove Illinois that occurred on the same date. Is it possible to contact this individual and show him my photos? He did make a request to compare information.. His report. Occurred : 12/3/2021 18:01 (Entered as : 12/03/2021 6:01 PM) Reported: 1/30/2022 10:11:10 AM 10:11 Posted: 3/4/2022 Location: Downers Grove, IL Shape: Cylinder Duration: minute or slightly more Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object Metallic cylinder in sky, hovering still no sound or movement. Was with my son in back yard, I looked up and noticed a very clear cylinder shaped object with looked like 5 white lights. I kept eyes on it and called my son to me, he was in a tree in yard shooting targets with bb gun. He came to me and asked "what" he could tell by tone of my voice it was something serious. I said "what's that" and pointed to object, he looked and his eyes got big, jaw dropped and said "wtf is that" I said something like I just wanted to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing. I asked him to tell me what he saw, to confirm to me what I was seeing. He said to hurry and take a picture, but didn't have phone on me and didn't want to miss at least seeing it for longer. After watching it for a minute, the object and a cloud next to it seemed to fade before our eyes not take off flying in any direction, which was also very weird. It was still light out and sky was perfectly clear and blue in area once object "faded" away, my son asked "how did it do that" like I would know. I been searching for a report of same thing before I said anything, when seen report from person in Elgin describing same thing but no lights I used that date, I know it was 1st week of Dec., was wanting to just confirm someone else's report. Being in a Chicago suburb and being very obvious in sky, I thought there would be many reports of this object. It had to be pretty big, there were a handful of planes that could be seen in both easterly and western sky and from my observation this cylinder was much bigger. Hopefully this helps someone else seeing same thing..... My report 4:15 pm 12/03/2021 while stand in the back yard with my neighbor, he points up in the sky and asks what is that? We live under the approach and departure area of the McCarran airport, I thought he was referring to another type of aircraft. But this was no aircraft it was a long cylinder or cigar object bright white and silvery looking. The orientation of the Cigar like object was vertical, the ends up and down and it appeared to be hovering southeast of the airport. There had been air traffic departing in that area. I thought we would wait to see another aircraft pass by the area where the object was situated and gauge the size and altitude of it. But it seems at that moment all the aircraft that were departing had been diverted from that general area. There were two aircraft that had changed course and headed north east away from that area. then all air traffic for 8 to 10 minutes seem to have been stopped. Then it just winked out of sight. I snapped a picture of it. Didn’t think it would come out because of the distance about 5 miles out. But when I enlarged the image I was surprised to see an image of a tic tac shaped UFO like the ones seen in the news recently. Image 1 is the actual photo taken , image 2 is an enlargement of 1 notice how the area around the object appears distorted, image 3 is an enlargement just after the the object vanished. After seeing this object I have been searching for other witnesses that may have seen what I had seen.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #167286). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.