UFO Sightngs: Nevada

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Reported By:  LW. Location, Las Vegas, Nevada.   Sept 9 2004.

Subject: UFO sighting. Location: Las Vegas, Nevada. Date: August 13, 2004. Time: 9.00 PM.  Witnesses 4. Objects shape, Lights.  No of objects 10+/-. 

Event Description:

We were sitting at a table outside our hotel.  It was about 9:00 - 9:30 p.m.  We were
looking at the sky, and suddenly we saw this sort of fishtail of lights come
"swimming" through the sky.  They were moving in unison, but not necessarily in
an orderly fashion.  They "swam" into view, and then disappeared behind the
clouds within a matter of about 15 seconds.  

Reported By: Manuel R. - Odessa, Texas - September 2, 2003
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Las Vegas, Nevada - Date: September 8, 2001 - Time: 9:00 PM - Witnesses: 9 - Object's Shape: Oval - Number of Objects: 1 - Object had lights - Additional Information: On top of the Mirage Casino
Event Description:
It was around 9:00 PM. We were driving on Boulevard Las Vegas, recording everything.

We got to the motel room at 12:00 Midnight, when I decided to replay the video.

I saw something on top of The Mirage. My first reaction was that I started jumping and got scared, so I told my wife about it and she saw it too!

It think it was a real good experience. We also have the video tape. I wish you could see it.

Reported By: Derek - Halleck, Nevada - February 15, 2003
Subject: UFO Sighting/Strange Encounter - Location: Near Halleck, NV - Date: November/December 2002 - Time: 12:30 and 1:00 AM - County Sighting took place: Elko - Witnesses: 1 - Shape, Size, Altitude, Speed all unknown - Additional Information: Hwy. 229, 10 mi. SE of  I-80, 25 mi. ENE of Elko -  No discernible features, just black void that cast giant shadow on ground - "Top secret "X-craft" test flights may not be restricted to Nevada's designated testing ranges."
Event Description:
Between 12:30 and 1:00 AM, on a Saturday night in late November or early
December of 2002 (not sure of exact date), I was driving my truck northwest
on Nevada State Highway 229 just a mile or two north of the Lamoille/Ft.
Halleck Road (dirt), from which I had just exited.   I was scouting out good
vantage points for nighttime photography of the Ruby Mountains, the West
slopes of which were now about 7 miles behind me.

Under a mostly clear sky with a bright moon, I was cruising very slowly
along the road, stopping occasionally to glance back and evaluate the
panorama for good shooting locations.   This was perfectly safe to do because
the road has an EXTREMELY low volume of traffic, especially at night.   As it
turned out, on this particular night I encountered no other vehicles on the
road.   Hwy. 229 is used primarily for access to local ranches and to the
Ruby Marshes Wildlife Refuge (about 60-70 miles south and lying on the East
side of the Ruby Range), and for all practical purposes would give one the
impression of being a closed, but well maintained seasonal road.

I had just descended into a shallow "dip" in the landscape about a half-mile
across and then came to a complete stop.   I turned off my lights so I could
better view the full distance behind me, and left my engine running just in
case I had to quickly clear the way for any approaching traffic.

My truck windows are heavily tinted, preventing one from getting a crystal
clear view of distant nighttime surroundings.   Since it wasn't too frigid
outside, I rolled down my driver's side window to look back toward the
mountains and see if any light pollution was visible from rural homes or
ranches.   However, this only gave me a good view of everything on my side of
the truck, so I had to alternately look through the back window to see the
land to the rear and rear right.

While I was turned to my right and looking out the rear window, I became
aware that the bright moonlight I had been bathed in all night was suddenly
not there.  

As I described to a friend recently, what happened during the
next few seconds was a lightning fast series of thought processes in trying
to rationalize why the moonlight was gone when no clouds were present to
obstruct it.   At no time was I in a panic.   Everything happened too fast for
me to develop any sense of fear about the situation.   Maybe that's because I
was preoccupied with my "mission" and not dwelling on thoughts of being all
alone and vulnerable out in the middle of nowhere.

I guess my first reaction was to look up through the rear window thinking I
might spot a large owl or other nocturnal bird of prey, which had swooped
down low over the truck.   I saw nothing ... and I mean NOTHING ... no moon
... no stars ... just pitch black.   However, the shadow covering me
persisted.  

I shifted my eyes downward onto the landscape behind me and
could see a sharp outer boundary of the shadow about 1/8 of a mile back down
the road (beyond that, the land was visibly lit by the moon).  I then spun
around and looked out my open driver's window to see the western boundary of
the shadow, about 100 yards away, moving at a brisk pace toward me.   So
whatever was casting this shadow was moving west to east.

I stuck my head out the window and looked up, but I saw absolutely no
discernible shape; just a mysterious mass of darkness the size or altitude
of which I simply could not determine.   In the span of about 15 seconds, the
shadow moved across the area where I was parked and disappeared over a low
hill to the east side of the highway.   The moonlight now once again flooded
the truck and immediate surroundings.

Not having seen or heard the source of the shadow (my truck engine remained
running during the incident), I have absolutely no idea how big or how high
the object was or how fast it was moving.   All I know is that it was huge
enough to cast a shadow I estimate to have been up to 1/4 mile across and
moving about 30 - 40 miles per hour.

The odd thing about this whole experience is that I never felt frightened or
in any kind of danger.   I knew that something strange had just happened, but
didn't really fathom the weirdness of it until sometime later.

All the above is fact as I remember it.   Now for the conjecture.   My
conclusion - then as now - is that the object was some sort of experimental
aircraft, perhaps a mega-sized "stealth blimp" much like that reported
numerous times since the early `90s.  I believe one of the most famous
sightings of such a craft occurred just a few years ago in southern
Illinois.   It was reported by several policemen, who tracked it into
Missouri.   If what I witnessed (or didn't witness) was some kind of
experimental military craft, it was far from any test facility, where you'd
expect to find such a vehicle. 

Could it be that developers wanted to see  how far out of the safe zone they could fly this thing without being spotted by the citizenry?   Unless someone else saw it before I did, then the testers succeeded in flying the device some 300 miles from the nearest test site - the Nellis Test Range (part of which is better known as "Area 51")- before it was spotted ... or at least detected by yours truly.

Even if anyone else on the ground experienced what I did that night, they
were probably just as perplexed as I when they looked up and couldn't see
any definite object in the sky above.   So the question to you readers is if
any of you have encountered such weirdness elsewhere in Nevada or any other
place.

One interesting sidenote to this: Just recently, I caught the tail end of a
local radio news report about the sighting of an "unknown, unauthorized
aircraft" flying low over ranchland in the Crescent Valley area (90 miles SW
of where my encounter took place) and heading in the general direction of
where I had my experience.   I didn't get enough details about that
particular sighting, but I gathered from the story that it was a follow-up
to a previous report from some weeks prior.  

I'm now wondering if that sighting actually occurred the same night as mine.   If there is anyone out there, especially in the Elko, Carlin or Crescent Valley area, who might
have more info about the other sighting, I'd like to know so I could follow
up and maybe start piecing together the puzzle.   If this is indeed some kind
of blimp, how big could it possibly be ... and why would it be so big?  
Other thoughts?

NOTE: Additional Info provided by Derek, February 16, 2003:
Nancy,
Thanks so much for the reply.   I wasn't sure if the transmission went
through or not.  

I'm glad I provided enough details, although I'm sorry I couldn't give a
more specific date or a more specific description.   It's hard to describe
something you can't really see.   I really didn't think of the incident as
being significant enough to report at the time, but after continual prodding
from a good friend and after hearing the radio report a few weeks ago, I
reconsidered.   Your site is the first place I've "officially" reported the
event.   If anyone is interested in investigating this, I'd be happy to help
all I can, provided I am still living in the area. 

After posting my report, I browsed some of the other accounts to see if
anyone else had ever reported something similar.   Damned if I didn't find
something!   Someone in Salt Lake City (about 250 miles east of here)
reported an almost identical low-flying "darkness" that to them appeared to
deliberately avoid being seen.   You can find their report by searching for
"Utah" sightings with "Unknown" or "Other" descriptions.   If I remember
correctly, the event was reported as occurring in September or October of
2002.

After having read the Salt Lake account and one or two roughly similar
reports from this general region, I'm becoming more convinced that there
could indeed be some new generation stealth craft being tested right under
our noses.   I'm awfully far from Area 51, which to my knowledge has not been
in much use during the last 5 or 6 years anyway, so I can't imagine any
craft venturing so far from there. 

However, it's possible that a test facility in west central Utah (maybe a little closer to me) could be the origin of this thing.   A closer facility might explain some mysterious, huge sonic booms - or more accurately, powerful atmospheric concussion waves I've experienced while living here during the last couple of years.   That's a whole other topic of discussion in itself, but could be related.

Anyway, thanks for the quick response.   Hopefully, your group can get
some corroboration on this from other sources and determine just what it was
I encountered.   If you find anything out before I do, please let me know.  
My curiosity has been piqued.
Derek

Editor's NOTE: If anyone has information related to this experience, please contact me at Edit4MUniv@aol.com  -  I will gladly forward same to Derek. Thank You.

Reported By: Donna J. - Las Vegas, Nevada - January 10, 2003
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Las Vegas, NV - County: Clark - Date: January 9, 2003 - Time: 5:30 PM - Witnesses: 2 - Objects Shape: Oval - Number of objects: 5 -
Object had lights - Object had an: Aura or Haze around it - Object hovered - There were aircraft in the area - The event took place near: A Military Airfield or Base -
Additional Information: Sahara and Eastern LV, NV
Event Description:
Have you received any e-mail from Las Vegans about a sighting yesterday 1/9/03 *in* Las Vegas at around 5:30 PM ???

I was driving down Eastern Avenue to Sahara when I saw a small object in the sky and moments later a large craft appeared to be hovering fairly low over downtown for about 5-7 minutes.

Cars on the street I was on were pulling over to look at it. About three minutes later three-four smaller helicopter type craft appeared around it. We didn't see it leave because we lost it behind some buildings.

I thought it might be apart of a filming of something but it was too weird and you'd think they'd do some special effect like that on a computer. I've tried looking it up online and in the newspaper but I haven't found anything.
Any Help would be appreciated.
Donna J.
P.S.   I am not crazy.

Reported By: Gerald E. McD. Date:7/31/02 10:37:12 AM
Location: Ocala, Florida. UFO Sighting Event Location: north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Date: November 1994-1995 Time: 10:00-11:30 PM
Witnesses: 2  Objects Shape: Light  Number of objects: 5 or 6
Lights: Object had lights
Object had an: Aura or Haze around it
The event took place near: A Military Airfield or Base

Event Description:
5 or 6 lights in the sky, yellow or orange in color. Some distance away, assumed must have been very large.
I spent 7+ years in the military. These were not illumination rounds falling behind the mountains. Same ones as seen over Utah.
It was my job to spot illumination in the Army, to include Air Force and Naval rounds. No smoke trail, no parachute. Watched it for about 10 or so minutes.
LOCATION: Between  Calente, Nevada and Las Vegas, Nevada. Sometime between 95 and 97. I would have to look it up. Looking at a map, I could tell you where...

Reported By: Gerald E. Mc.

Reported by: Steve - England
Description of Event:
Hi, I live in England and we just got back from a trip to Vegas. On the 27th 2002 Feb we drove to Zion park and Bryce Canyon in Utah, we finished in Bryce at 5 PM and decided to drive back to Vegas that night.

We were driving from Mesquite to Vegas on Interstate 15, about 9:30 PM, clear, starry night, my wife was asleep, I was doing 80-85, not very much traffic when I saw a truck in front of me in the slow lane, I indicated to pull out, looked in my mirror and jumped with fright.

In my mirror two strong lights were following me about 30-40 feet behind the car. One was 15 feet off the ground and the other was 25 feet off the ground, they were bobbing about independently, but following right behind the car.

I screamed for my wife to wake up and at the same time pulled into the overtaking lane as I nearly rear ended the truck. When I looked again from the fast lane they were gone. I leaned out of every window to see if I could see any aircraft flying away but nothing. Steve
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