NUFORC Sighting 05098

Occurred: 1998-09-19 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 1998-12-12 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Boulder City, NV, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Silent, triangular craft, lined with pale blue/white lights, headed south

I was stargazing and listening to an Art Bell replay. Boulder City is in the east-west flight path for McCarran Airport in Las Vegas. Many planes fly over every day and night. I've been out in the night before and never do these flights ever really stop. This night, I was watching stars and planes through binoculars. I put the binocs down as the news came on the radio. I noticed there were no planes overhead at that moment. Then, while looking straight up (at Casseiopia, slightly to the back of me) I saw what looked like a V-shaped constellation, but it was moving. It was absolutely silent (while every plane can be heard in the still night air), it seemed about as big as my fist held straight up, and was headed due south. Lake Mead lies directly north of where I live. By the time I got my binocs up to look closer, I just barely located the craft before it disappeared over the top of my house and I never did get a good close-up look at it. Within just a few minutes, the regular flight traffic reappeared. Could this have been a Stealth craft?

Posted 1999-01-28