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Nebraska UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 47 UFO sighting reports in Nebraska from 2012 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (11 reports, 23.40% of total).
- November is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (12 reports, 25.53% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (10 reports, 21.28% of total).
- 11/01/12 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 4.26% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (24 reports, 51.06% of total).
Nebraska UFO Sighting Reports in 2012
This is a sampling of 20 Nebraska UFO reports from 2012, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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White craft with pink mist around it My brother was driving to downtown Omaha, and I had decided to take pictures of this weird cloud on my phone, because I had read somewhere that sometimes weird things will show up on pictures but not to the naked eye. I took a bunch of pictures and when I looked back on them, only on a few and zoomed in, I could see a weird shaped craft. I couldn’t see it with my naked eye, I had to take a picture of it to show up in the sky.
The craft looked like two spheres on top, and a figure eight design on the bottom. The top two spheres looked like the front of a bra would and white, the bottom looked like metal. There was a pink miasma that surrounded it but only in the picture as well.
The craft was very small, and I had to zoom in on the picture to see it clearly, but most definitely not a normal craft to see flying about. It was flying not super low, but it wasn’t high up in the sky either.
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RED BALL OF LIGHT HOVERING IN SKY A RED BALL OF LIGHT APPEARED APPROXIMATELY A MILE IN FRONT OF ME AS I DROVE SOUTH ON HIGHWAY 10 TOWARDS KEARNEY. I FIRST THOUGT IT WAS A FLARE OR FIREWORKS AS IT SEEMED TO FLOAT IN THE SKY FOR MAYBE TEN SECONDS THEN APPEARED TO "FLY AWAY." AS THIS HAPPENED I WAS ON MY CELL PHONE AND THERE WAS STATIC INTTERUPTING THE CALL.
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2 ufo's following black car down I-80 I was stareing at a golden ball driving down I-80 going to pick my mom up from work an I noticed that the golden ball I looked at was following me. I stopped on the side of the interstate 2 or three times an when I stopped the gold ufo ball would stop finally I was going west an I noticed it was still following. I stopped on the side of the interstate threw ny hands up like what, i felt like it was a movie because there were 2 ufo's following me I sped off called my friend he said he couldn't hear me for a minute or so sped around area's with lots of trees so they couldn't follow an they disappeared by the time i went around neighborhoods.
but it seemed to follow me off the interstate an when I existed it stopped following. I was in a black car. the object has never followed me in the red car, also I have seen the same thing just flying about 10,000 following firework smoke an after the boston terror thing I noticed there was a golden ball that day flashing ! from gold to red it was going up ames street west bound.
If u watch the sky you see them all the time I have seen them going in every direction alot of the time they don't even stop they just fly right over my head one time we were walking an a ufo flew right over head from west to east. I can say Ive seen them go every direction. I think they watch or mess with the people who don't believe because now that I believe there's something else out there they don't bother me any more.
Oh an I was the one that said I say a ufo above the tree in the back yard I forgot to say mark that the reason I noticed the ufo was mainly because I think my dogs were barking at it or at least they were barking towards the ufo I belive the ufo's are portals that aliens can enter our world threw an or they are camera's so they can see where to block the sun but they obvious like to mess with people some times if i think about them I will see a real bright gold right on top of my neighbors house then! when I look it disapaers. I also noticed that the day all of ! the star s were falling, there were the 2 that are always there an all of the sudden both of the balls of light went the opposite direction an diapered. that same day I went out west an saw a silver ball not far off the ground flashing from silver the dark or so you couldn't see it.
It was flying around then disapered. I am always watching for activity. I think I would have seen alot more but I never knew about ufo's untill 4 years ago.
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spuratic orange ball My friends and I were working late and one of the guys went outside to pee and saw a orange ball of light spuraticly moving in different directions. He yelled loudly my name to come look at it and right when he raised his voice the object in the north sky instantly stopped moving as I ran out side to look he said there's our UFO we had seen a week prior as it slowly hovered from north to south and as he shined his flash light It sped away to the south and disappeared . On this occasion we after he seen it it just stayed in place and almost acted like I was trying to be a star but moved ever so little up and down.
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Loud humming sound off and on, unlike any type of plane, car or helicopter. I have not seen anything yet, but there is a loud humming noise that wakes me up between 3 AM and 5 AM every night lately. It's indescribable really.
Doesn't sound like anything a human could make or produce from an object.
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two orbs, blue, and multi-colored one large blue circular orb. mostly stationary, slight horizontal movements, very bright. much larger and brighter than any star in the sky.
one small orb changing color patterns (yellow, red, blue,orange) and direction, (vertical, and 180 degrees circular) above main orb. highway 183 heading south and west from kearny. aprox.
4am. I am a traveling privately contracted repair man, working in McCook, Nebraska that morning. I have never seen anything like it, and was eerily compelled to stop and observe, and document.
A friend led me to your sight to report what i had seen.
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While running in the early morning, a friend and I witnessed an object flying at a low altitude emitting an orange glow behind it. My friend and I were running this morning, 11/16/2012, the same route we run every Friday at that time. It was still dark, stars were out.
Out of the corner of my eye I caught movement and a light. I looked up and some type of craft was passing in front of my line of sight. It was a dark half-circle shape I believe and had an orange glow behind it across the entire back of the object.
The orange glow tailed out behind for a short distance and there seemed to be occasional sparks within the glow. The object continued past moving to the southwest, maintaining a constant altitude which was fairly low in the sky. Neither one of us heard any sound coming from the craft.
It seemed to be moving at a high rate of speed but was easy to follow across the sky until we lost it over the hill. My friend’s initial thought was that it was a meteor, but I didn’t get that feeling at all. It was maintaining a constant altitude and seemed to be banking slightly to the! Southwest.
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Orange cresent object with trail moving northwest to southwest.no sound, no decent 2-3 min across sky On my way to work on hwy 92 6 miles east of brainard at 5:28am. I stopped my car and got out when I saw an object coming from east-northeast moving west-southwest.
It was glowing orange in a cresent shape the size of my fist.void/dark behind the cresent shape then coming back together forming a orange trail. At first I thought it was an airplane with a bad engine.
Then I thought it could be a very large asteroid. However it moved across the sky without desending,completely silent, taking about 2-3 minutes to cross the sky. horizon to horizon.
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Disappearing object While I was stopped at a red light, something in the sky caught my eye. There was a cylindrical shapped object which was flying to the south. Due to the reflection of the sun I was able to determine that this object was cylindrical in shape.
It then stopped moving from what I could tell. At the very moment it stopped it became an extremely bright white and simply disappeared.
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green beam of light west to east around eleven I was driving south down ave b in Scotts bluff. I had my wife and kids in the car the kids were sleeping and my wife was awake I seen a bright green beam of light. Fall from the sky I wouldn't really say it was falling I guess.
this is hard to describe. It was like a giant green neon tube that shot down towards earth it did not hit earth it disappeared before it could it wasn't a meteor or nothing because it appeared and disappeared so fast like a blink of an eye the tail end lit up the clouds behind it yet it was like a huge green tube it wasn't too close to me because I could see antennas blinking red that were closer to me it was more outside of gering towards the wildcat hills and missile bases are out there. I don't know what I seen but I got shivers and was totally freaked out.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Huge ball of light came up from the ground and shot into the atmosphere ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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fastest thing ever went from 10000 feet to 50000 feet .in 15 sec. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
We have no idea what the report addresses. If this is a legitimate report, we would like the witness to submit a much more detailed report. PD)).
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Two mysterious red lights floating across the sky, it lasted about 4 minutes and suddenly dissapeared. Theyre was 2 red lights floating across the sky, they seemed to come from the middle of no where and suddenly kept coming closer and dissapeared, it was two flashing lights I took a glimpse and they were both shaped like saucers. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
We suspect that the sighting took place as night, so we have amended the time above. PD)).
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Two mysterious red lights hoovering across the providence. lasted about 4 minutes. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Large rectangle 168th blondo Omaha ne At first sight it appeared to look like a pair of bright white headlights in the sky with a flashing red light on the back when it turned 90* to the west. It was heading from approximately 156 and blondo and we saw it coming toward 168 and blondo. Flying low - the altitude of a helicopter.
When we got closer, and were practically underneath it we looked up. No noise made by the craft completely silent. Very large rectangle shape with mini white and red lights underneath.
It turned sharply to the southeast and took off. The last time we could see it it looked like a string of white lights in the sky moving rapidly toward the dodge expressway. Side note: think we saw the same crafts about 45 mins earlier at 156 and dodge area.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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UFO Flat shaped disk or saucer with orange light seen by Loretto, Nebraska. UFO Flat shaped disk or saucer with 4 windows seen by Loretto, Nebraska, on Saturday, April 12, 2014. Vessel looked as if someone had turned an orange light on inside the cab for 8 seconds and then shut the orange colored light off.
No sounds was heard and there was only 1 vessel seen. There were no clouds in the sky, just a few stars. It was a calm and clear evening.
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3 v shaped objects 2 very fast moveing V-shaped objects moving from north to south, and 1 that followed probably 1 min or so later all objects were the same color like silvery whitish no lights on the crafts did i see, the last object was very big in size and im not even gonna guess, maybe someone else seen it as well. clear nite sky, no clouds ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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A hovering large, rectangle-shaped object with lights over the 150th St. area just south of Dodge Exprsswy Between 144th and 156th street exits on the Dodge Expressway, I saw a large object in the sky. It was a large rectangle shape and all across the front, it had bright white lights.
Underneath the craft, you could see what looked like a faint light coming from inside the object. At the back, was a red light. It came from the Southwest and hovered over about 150th St.
, on the south side of Dodge for about three minutes. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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3 slow moving, diamand shaped crafts flew in a strait line from N to S over the city. I was star gazing in a park when I noticed three crafts flew in a horizontal line flying west. They were appr.
2 miles apart. white flashers and red flasher and slow moving. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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I saw a bight light that appeared to follow me from south Omaha to west Omaha on Satruday 9/22/2012 9/22/2012 6:30 am – 6:50 am I was leaving my house in south Omaha to go to work on Saturday morning. It was exactly 6:30 am on the clock in my car. I noticed a very, very bright night kind of hovering over the sky above the house.
In perspective, it looked like it was right over the point in the attic of the house. So I back up and as I back up, this light goes straight up vertically right over the house, moving higher into the sky. I noticed….
and stopped. When I stopped, it stopped. Then I put the car back in drive and moved back into the driveway, the light followed and dropped back down, moving closer.
I did it again and the light followed each time. Then I started thinking, maybe it is a police helicopter of something. So I back out again and pulled out as I normally do, still seeing this light moving with me.
I went to the end of the drive and began to pull out on to the street. Curiousity had a hold of me at this point so I put the car in park and got out again. The light had moved over horizontally again as if it was following me.
I noticed the time was now 6:50 am, which seemed was crazy, time just flew, I did not realize I had spent so much time watching this bright light. So I get back in the car, and drive away. I drove 2 blocks over and 4 blocks up which took me to the stop sign at 23rd and F street.
I put the car in park again and got out to see if I could see the light. It was there, right above the street , definitely following me. I wasn’t afraid or anything, I just kept thinking, what the heck is this.
So I was getting back in the car and I saw a man going to his car….I kind of waved to him and I asked him if he could see this light…he kept saying no, but there is no way anyone could miss this light. I told him to follow the tree line and look again.
He said no and got in his car. So I got back in my car and proceeded to work. I work off of 120th and Maple.
When I got to work, I glanced up quickly to see if I see anything and I did not. So a few minutes later, a coworker arrived, she had picked up breakfast and her hands were full, so I went to the door to help her gather her things. The light was there.
I asked her if she could see it and she did. She said she thought it was a black hawk helicopter and did not seem too impressed, but by now, it was lighter outside and it did not look as spectacular and of course she did not see it move across the sky as I did. I have no clue what this was but I asked it to make us treat each other well and the take care of the world better…………….
oh and I also asked it to make me rich and skinny….just in case it was something out of the ordinary and could hear me.
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2012 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 11 reported sightings | 23.40% of all reports |
Circle | 6 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
Fireball | 5 reported sightings | 10.64% of all reports |
Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 10.64% of all reports |
Other | 5 reported sightings | 10.64% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
Triangle | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2012 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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November | 12 reported sightings | 25.53% of all reports |
May | 7 reported sightings | 14.89% of all reports |
September | 6 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
December | 4 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
July | 4 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
August | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2012 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 10 reported sightings | 21.28% of all reports |
Wednesday | 9 reported sightings | 19.15% of all reports |
Thursday | 9 reported sightings | 19.15% of all reports |
Monday | 8 reported sightings | 17.02% of all reports |
Tuesday | 4 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
Sunday | 4 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
Friday | 3 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2012 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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11/01/12 | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
07/04/12 | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
05/28/12 | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
11/07/12 | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
10/29/12 | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2012 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 24 reported sightings | 51.06% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 7 reported sightings | 14.89% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 6 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 4 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 2 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
All Nebraska Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2012
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Nebraska, in 2012
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Nebraska
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Nebraska.