Eyewitness states: From an airplane taking off from Las Vegas, after we did a u-turn to head north, I saw these lights on the ground about (I’m guessing) fifteen or twenty miles west of the city. The video does not do justice to how bright these things were, it was a bright sunny day, and these things were like giant welding torches, with their artificial light spreading for miles. There’s probably a good explanation for them, but I don’t know of any myself, so I’m reporting it.
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