NUFORC Sighting 26804

Occurred: 1990-10-15 17:00 Local
Reported: 2002-12-30 17:28 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour.
No of observers: 2

Location: Las Vegas (North of), NV, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

strange lights north of Las Vegas

A friend and I were in my Jeep out in the Floyd Lamb wilderness area north of Las Vegas. We had gone out there looking at agave roasting rings, and just checking out the country. The date is approx. It could have been any time between 1988 and 1992. The sun had just gone down but it was still light out. We were on the north end of a small valley, having followed a jeep trail up an aluvial fan untill it ended. We had stopped to take a leak and, while looking south toward Las Vegas, we saw a very bright light rise from behind the hills on the other end of the valley and stop. We were a couple of valleys north of Vegas, so it appeared to have risen from a valley between us and Las Vegas. It sat perfectly still for so long that I began to think that I hadn't seen it rise, and that it was venus or something. But then it slowly dropped back behind the hill. After awhile, it rose back up and then started to move around. The way it moved was amazing. It would go from stopped to moving very fast with no acceleration or deceleration time. It would do geometric patterns with 90 degree angles without slowing down. It would get very bright and then get so dim we could hardly see it. Then it dropped behind the hill. Shortly after it rose the next time, another one came up. They sat perfectly still for just a moment and then they instantly started moving fast, flying in a chaotic pattern all around each other... like gnats, or humming birds. Then, they both darted out of sight. Shortly after they were gone (it was then completly dark) several helicoptors came over the hill from the southeast (the dirrection of nellis AFB). They seemed to be combing the area. So my friend and I headded back. On the way down out of the park there was an area where we could briefly see the road further down, before a turn in the road obscured our view. In that brief time we saw a white truck with a shell. Looked like a government truck. By the time we could see the road again it was gone, and I'm pretty sure there was no other road. It! must ha ve cut cross country because it didn't pass us and it wasn't between us and the 95 once we got out of the canyon.

NUFORC Note:

Date may be approximate. PD

Posted 2003-03-21