NUFORC Sighting 90954

Occurred: 2012-07-17 22:50 Local
Reported: 2012-07-17 23:17 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

downward moving object falling north of las vegas nevada.

at about 22:50 june 17,2012. we saw an object due north at about 10 miles away 60degrees in the sky. start to drop towards earth at what was seen as a slow speed. it would brighten up for about ten seconds then the light would extuinguish rapidly and not lighten up again for another 20 seconds. it would gradually get brighter. this lasted for about several minutes before it was at about 45 degrees in the sky when it had gotten brighter then jumped about 50 yards rapidly from a downward movement to a horizontal movement then again started moving downward. when it reach about 25 degrees off the horizontal plane. it light up once more for the last time very brightly more so then before. then distinguished and was not seen again. 2 minutes later two jets were seen flying due west from a eastern direction. the object looked like the size of a planet in the night sky.

Posted 2012-08-05