SIGHTING: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"I stepped into the backyard with my dogs, and was star gazing due south on a very clear night when a stationary red object (at about a 45 degree angle) caught my eye. the 3/4 moon was to the left and a bit lower than the object. a bright planet (either venus or jupiter) was to the right of the object. the brightness of the nearby moon and planet created such a bad glare that it was very difficult to view the object with binoculars. the object appeared to be about the same size as the bright planet, and was blinking in a sequence. first it looked like a single solid, circular red light; then it looked like two red circular lights fused together; then after that, a smaller green light blinked. all the while, the object was stationary, so it was definitely not a plane (also no white lights were seen.) i've never seen a helicopter remain at a fixed point for as long as the object was still. at one point during the 20 minutes of observation, i saw a falling leaf motion, and it startled me a little bit. that was when i rushed into the house to get binoculars, which didn't help me see any additional details of the object. at one point, i had to go back into my house again; but when i went back outside, the object was gone. i heard no noise, have never seen anything like this before, and i have no idea how far away the object was."