Las Vegas UFO - Lights in Clouds Above The Strip [Light Pillar Map]

Another one? I think so...

Claimed to be in Kazhakstan within the last few days, but that information may or may not be accurate...
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First of May 2025 in Kazakhstan
#ovni #ufo #UAP #ORB #drone #fenómenoaéreo

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Source: https://www.facebook.com/reel/687845760501981

Video attached in case FB poster deletes it...
 

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Claimed to be in Kazhakstan within the last few days, but that information may or may not be accurate...
This one cropped up on Twitter again, and surfaced a link to Kazakh media:
Article:
On the night of May 1, locals filmed a strange light above the city. The video quickly spread on social media.

Another perspective was offered by amateur astronomer Murat Sieubaev.

"It could be caused by architectural lighting. The light reflects off the lower cloud layer. It's a play of light and shadows," he suggested.


Nearly right, it's the upper cloud layer.
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It's a relatively distinctive set of buildings. An interesting challenge to find it. It will be large brightly lit tall buildings . On the left side there's two less well lit (at least from this angle) curved corners or buildings.
 
The video gives a clue.


At 0:30 we see buildings. Look like residential towers.

I've been looking... but there are a lot of residential complexes that look like this.


We can see a much taller building, with a red beacon on each corner, peeking over the building on our left.

That might help some, but it would be a hard slog to find this. It must be near something extraordinarily brightly lit with vertical lamps. And away from anything else lit that brightly.

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Are we sure this is a building? Or buildings? I'm becoming skeptical of that. Roads or streets? One of the numerous parks, gardens, other public spaces?

Would really help if we knew where the camera was. The tall building does mean it must be in the city proper.

It's not surprising that we're only seeing a portion of the city. The conditions have to be just right. So looking for something extraordinarily bright may have been a red herring. Perhaps we're not looking at something really bright, we may just be seeing some random area that was reflected by the only part of the high clouds where conditions were just right. Shape of ice crystals, alignment of ice crystals, amount of ice crystals, angles of the light path from ground to crystal to observer, clear path for the light to travel past low clouds. What else?
 
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An Early report on the Astana event:

https://newtimes.kz/obshchestvo/205...ainstvennyi-obekt-zametili-v-nebe-nad-astanoi
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A video of an unusual celestial phenomenon was published by one of the city's public groups, sparking a wave of discussion on social media.

The footage shows a nighttime panorama of Astana, with bright lights in the sky. One witness reported spotting the object at 8:43 PM, while another reported spotting it six minutes earlier. They said the object was so large that it was simultaneously seen from different points in the city—near the drama theater and in the Arman Kala residential complex area on the left bank, which are approximately six kilometers apart.

"I only managed to capture 10 glowing dots, while another person captured the entire shuttle. If I had looked up earlier, I might have seen the entire ship," shared the author of one of the videos.
Social media users are actively discussing the origin of the mysterious object.

"Drones are spying on summer residents grilling shashlik," "Sergek is all over town," "It's a spaceship," "Astana is preparing for a drone parade," the comments read.
So far, there have been no official comments from authorities or astronomical services.

Residents of Astana previously witnessed a rare natural phenomenon: several "suns" appeared simultaneously in the sky. This unusual effect, known as a parhelion, attracted attention on social media.

Arman Kala seems to be one block.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/...try=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQwMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw==
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From a subscriber@astana_pokazhet_: "Post this too, this is crazy. Anyway, the author was filming at 8:37 PM, and I was at 8:43 PM, 6 minutes later. So, I only managed to capture these 10 points, his lights, and he captured the entire shuttle. So, it was gradually rising until I lost sight of it. And the fact that it was simultaneously above me near the drama theater and above the Arman Kala residential complex on the left bank, which is 6 km from here, means the object is huge and very far away. I'm just in shock; if I had looked up earlier, I might have seen the entire ship.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJHtF5RNBgN/?igsh=MTB1ZGg1dXVzbGdxdg%3D%3D


This seems to be from the person near the State Academic Kazakh Musical Drama Theatre. Meaning that the witness/videographer in the residential complex saw the more complete "map." Of course, they may have been seeing two different things reflected by the layer of ice fog that was responsible for this display.

Because of the distance between the witnesses, I suspect they probably were seeing two different things. Scattered UFO witnesses typically weave their stories into one narrative.

This means that the video we have included in this thread, the one from the residential complex, shows the more complete "map."
 
I think the video in question was taken from the playground of Arman Kala 2.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/Arman+Kala+6+residential+complex/@51.0969624,71.4249487,156m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQwMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

The Playground is labeled with the white pine tree on green circle logo. Thus why we hear children's voices. I suspect the camera was a bit south of the label, maybe even in the driveway a bit south of the playground.

Buildings in video are labeled
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Matching labels on the Google Map view of Arman Kala 2
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This is the back side of Building E and the side view of D.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0960116,71.425025,3a,25.4y,23.39h,117.05t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s7i4U0oiEJdaOZw3OXb4SIg!2e0!6shttps://streetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com/v1/thumbnail?cb_client=maps_sv.tactile&w=900&h=600&pitch=-27.04809806551107&panoid=7i4U0oiEJdaOZw3OXb4SIg&yaw=23.390691570793816!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQwMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw==

Therefore we are looking at a "light pillar map" of something generally east, or perhaps somewhat south of east of Arman Kala 2.
... I think.

Nothing much of note in that direction, so far.
 

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This one cropped up on Twitter again, and surfaced a link to Kazakh media:
Article:
On the night of May 1, locals filmed a strange light above the city. The video quickly spread on social media.

Another perspective was offered by amateur astronomer Murat Sieubaev.


Nearly right, it's the upper cloud layer.

screenshot-2025-05-05-170034-jpg.80073

It's a relatively distinctive set of buildings. An interesting challenge to find it. It will be large brightly lit tall buildings . On the left side there's two less well lit (at least from this angle) curved corners or buildings.
This is important. I'm seeing comments dismissing your argument as impossible, because these are not "reflections in clouds", obviously, because we can clearly see that the object is above the clouds.


We need to clarify that there are two layers of clouds.

-scattered low clouds
-a layer of ice fog at high altitude, far above the low clouds


I'm also seeing comments as to how it was too warm in the city for there to be ice crystals in the air. A misunderstanding we also saw concerning the Las Vegas Display. The air at high altitude can be below zero even on a summer day.
 
Closest sounding:

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35394 Karaganda Observations at 12Z 01 May 2025

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PRES HGHT TEMP DWPT RELH MIXR DRCT SKNT THTA THTE THTV
hPa m C C % g/kg deg knot K K K
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1000.0 168
956.0 553 16.8 -11.2 14 1.71 110 4 293.7 299.1 294.0
951.0 597 16.1 -10.8 15 1.77 135 2 293.4 299.0 293.8
925.0 829 12.4 -8.6 22 2.17 140 4 292.0 298.7 292.4
917.0 901 11.7 -8.8 23 2.16 180 2 292.0 298.7 292.4
885.0 1195 8.9 -9.4 26 2.12 200 2 292.1 298.7 292.5
853.0 1500 6.1 -10.1 30 2.08 225 4 292.2 298.6 292.6
850.0 1529 5.8 -10.2 31 2.08 225 4 292.2 298.6 292.6
802.0 2000 1.2 -11.8 37 1.94 213 7 292.2 298.2 292.6
794.0 2081 0.4 -12.6 37 1.84 211 8 292.2 297.9 292.5
792.0 2101 0.6 -15.6 29 1.44 210 8 292.6 297.2 292.9
781.0 2213 1.8 -32.2 6 0.33 213 8 295.1 296.2 295.1
762.0 2411 0.6 -42.4 2 0.12 218 9 295.9 296.3 295.9
714.0 2930 -1.7 -47.7 2 0.07 231 11 298.9 299.1 298.9
700.0 3087 -1.7 -50.7 1 0.05 235 12 300.6 300.8 300.6
699.0 3098 -1.9 -49.9 1 0.06 235 12 300.5 300.7 300.5
656.0 3596 -5.4 -39.5 5 0.19 240 14 302.0 302.7 302.1
629.0 3926 -7.7 -32.7 11 0.39 243 15 303.1 304.4 303.1
607.0 4201 -9.8 -36.3 9 0.28 245 16 303.7 304.7 303.8
600.0 4290 -10.5 -37.5 9 0.25 245 16 303.9 304.9 304.0
584.0 4497 -11.4 -43.2 5 0.14 255 14 305.2 305.8 305.3
558.0 4845 -12.9 -52.9 2 0.05 255 19 307.4 307.7 307.5
531.0 5218 -15.6 -41.7 9 0.19 255 25 308.6 309.3 308.7
503.0 5626 -18.5 -29.5 37 0.66 251 27 309.9 312.2 310.0
500.0 5670 -18.9 -29.9 37 0.64 250 27 309.9 312.2 310.1
485.0 5897 -20.1 -33.1 30 0.49 254 29 311.2 312.9 311.3
479.0 5989 -20.8 -32.8 33 0.51 255 29 311.4 313.2 311.5
456.0 6352 -23.7 -31.4 49 0.61 250 29 312.2 314.3 312.3
447.0 6499 -24.9 -30.9 57 0.65 250 30 312.5 314.8 312.6
419.0 6968 -28.9 -33.9 62 0.52 250 34 313.2 315.1 313.3
404.0 7229 -30.9 -36.9 56 0.40 250 36 313.9 315.3 313.9
400.0 7300 -31.5 -37.5 55 0.38 250 37 314.0 315.4 314.0
381.0 7641 -33.7 -38.2 64 0.37 240 41 315.4 316.8 315.5
365.0 7941 -35.7 -38.9 72 0.36 247 46 316.7 318.1 316.8
349.0 8250 -38.0 -41.9 67 0.28 255 51 317.7 318.8 317.8
344.0 8349 -38.7 -42.8 65 0.26 254 50 318.0 319.0 318.1
327.0 8694 -41.7 -44.5 74 0.22 250 49 318.5 319.4 318.6

Gets below freezing pretty quick
 
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