2009-10-26 - Las Vegas, NV - Oval

On October 26, 2009, I was out on my front porch area watching an inordinate number of aircraft departing McCarran International Airport when I observed a very bright object in the northern sky from 17:30 PM (5:30 PM) until 17:42 PM (5:42 PM) that remained in a fixed position for a duration period of 12 minutes in Las Vegas, NV, it had an luminosity as bright as Sirius in the night sky, this observation was made in broad day light and no stars would be apparent at this time, it was located approximately 15° directly above where Polaris (the North Star) would be, it did not pulsate nor vary in any way.

This object then dimmed out and an elliptical object could be faintly seen for a brief moment as being of a very dull silver finish, it then immediately departed on a 45° angle to the East at an extremely high rate of speed trailing a very very faint amber brown plumb behind where it disappeared in approximately two seconds.

Ruled out a weather balloon, was not a meteor, had no strobe or red & green aircraft running lights, it emitted no sound.


((NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone with this individual, and he sounded to us to be a quite sober-minded witness. We suspect that his description of the event is quite accurate. PD))