The Las Vegas Strip is a small, 4-mile stretch of land, but one where almost anything can happen. Residents of “Sin City” are no strangers to the strange and unusual, in fact, UFO sightings are a common occurrence in Las Vegas.
And it makes perfect sense. After all, the notorious Area 51 Air Force facility and alleged alien experiment site is just a few miles away in the desert.
With that in mind, it’s not all that surprising, or even out of the ordinary, that several UFO sightings have surfaced in the days leading up to Christmas 2022.
While at Sapphire Las Vegas for a night of work, a group of employees noticed a strange “point of light” in the sky.
Although obscured by clouds, a cluster of red, white and yellow lights was clearly visible above the club. Sapphire manager Brett Feinstein was among those who witnessed the strange event, recording the lights on his phone before posting it on social media as evidence of the UFO.
“Honestly, this is really weird,” Feinstein said as she looked up to show off the glowing orbs. “I mean, we’re here every night. I’ve never seen anything like it.” Social media reacts to Las Vegas UFO sighting The Las Vegas UFO sighting immediately sparked a flurry of responses, many of which expressed agreement that the lights were indeed those of an alien spacecraft.
“Of course it does because it’s reflecting light when it hits it! That’s definitely something up there,” one user wrote. “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Unless you see a UFO, don’t stay in Vegas,” joked another.
Others raised questions: “When exactly did Feinstein see this?
Did he hire actors to pretend to see the UFO along with him? Was this all just a promotional tactic for his club?” However, Feinstein assured them it was not a hoax. “They told me at 11:47 p.m.,” he wrote in the replies. “I think it was there a little while before I got here. Our security guard, Sapphire, said she saw something flying around and then it appeared. It was there for several hours. Eventually it started to disappear behind the cloud cover. It never moved or made a sound.”
Experts believe the UFO was actually a rare atmospheric phenomenon.
According to the National Weather Service, there is a good, albeit rare, explanation for the lights and it has nothing to do with UFOs.
Instead, experts believe they were “pillars of light,” as the cluster of light was not moving and the temperature of the cloud was low enough to produce the phenomenon. “The long pillars of multicolored light streaking across the sky look like the perfect setting for an imminent alien invasion,” the NWS wrote on its official website.
“But in fact, light pillars are a common effect that can be found all over the world.” “They come from above, not aliens, but tiny ice crystals that are floating in the atmosphere. … Ice is highly reflective, so when light hits these wider faces, it bounces off and reflects off more ice crystals.” “This means we have these vertically stacked mirrors floating in the atmosphere,” they continued. “The light that hits them bounces up and up (or down and down, depending on the source) and becomes a radiant column in the sky. The light can come from the sun, the moon, cities, street lights, any strong light source.”
