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Nebraska UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 23 UFO sighting reports in Nebraska from 2015 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (5 reports, 21.74% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 21.74% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 21.74% of total).
- 07/04/15 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 8.70% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (15 reports, 65.22% of total).
Nebraska UFO Sighting Reports in 2015
This is a sampling of 20 Nebraska UFO reports from 2015, 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).
Full Report Text:
Entire city lit up with light and a huge boom! The entire city is talking about it and several news stations are covering it. There are several links to video. ((ADDENDUM FROM RADIO LISTENER)) Hi there.
I was listening to "coast to coast AM" and I heard you ask about it. Yes I was ending a date that night about 1:22am and I was scraping her windows while she was in her car. All of a sudden I seen a reflection like the police helicopter just shined their lights on me I turned around and nothing.
She asked "what was that light?" I said, "I don't know". I did not hear a boom, but some other did from what the news said. All I know is that-that light was bright!!! Like I said, I thought the police helicopter shined their light on me, and not even two seconds later, it was gone.
In the morning they were talking about it on the news and did say some people heard a boom. I personally didn't and I was outside. Btw the date went great but she lost interest later on down the road.
Thanks, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Large flying v- and t-shaped lights. Outside of my house at approx. 2100 hours, I noticed an object flying at what looked like 20000 feet.
I had no time to photograph. I ran inside, and got on my computer to find no current flights within 100 miles of my location, and the I.S.
S was off the west coast. There where a total of 7 lights, one wide V shaped, and next to it, a large T shape. Moving far too fast to be a plane, and too slow to be a satellite.
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Vee shaped lights, which turned red when I stopped to watch it, then flared brilliant white and moved toward me. Just at 18:00 hours, I left my place of work and started to my car. There were only 2 cars in the parking lot, and it was already quite dark.
I looked to the north over the building across the street and saw one V shaped group of white lights (I believe there were 5 lights. It looked like the object was only a couple hundred feet in the air. I could also see a larger outline off to the left, which made it a large, horizontal diamond shape.
I stopped and watched, and when I stopped, the light immediately changed to red and then quickly flared into an amazingly bright light. I was able to get a photo with my cell phone, and then it started moving toward me very slowly. It then began moving toward me faster, and I walked to my car and got in, instantly turned the key and turned the lights on with no problem, looked out the window, and it was simply gone.
I got out of the car to check, and except for stars and planets, the sky was completely empty.
Full Report Text:
Flying Triangle made no sound. November 23, 2015, Approximately 6:44 pm. Driving east towards Fremont, NE.
Noticed large bright light in sky. Large light blinked twice and then went away. As we drove closer we pulled over and it flew right over us.
A large triangle with one white light on each end of the triangle. One red light in the middle of the triangle. This flying object made no sound whatsoever.
The object quickly moved west and all lights were turned off. Except for the red light which you could see in the distance.
Full Report Text:
Object resembling shooting star made 90 degree angle turn in broad daylight (3:45 pm). Driving N-N/E on interstate I-80, nearing Omaha, coming from Lincoln about 3:45 pm. I witnessed a glimmer in the sky off to the right of the interstate to the east travel northbound leaving a trail, then after 10-12 seconds made an immediate right angle turn due east and disappeared after 3-4 seconds behind a cloud.
Resembled a bright shooting star but in broad daylight and made a 90 degree angle turn immediately. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Sighting of V shaped UFO less then 100' from my deck. Craft appeared cloaked in a cloud shape and moving slowly from North to South. I was standing on my deck facing east on the third floor of my apartment building.
It was approximately 50' to my left when I spotted it and no more then 10' above me. As it slowly moved and came abreast of me it changed shape into a solid form. It was dark or grey in color and seemed very large.
Maybe 50'to 75' across in a V shape. There were no lights and a very faint wind sound. I couldn't see the front, only the V shape of the wings.
It continued moving slowly south and changed back to a white cloud shape. It passed right above a tree and simply disappeared.
Full Report Text:
Strange "V-shaped" glowing orbs. I was leaving Council Bluffs via Broadway onto the interstate to Omaha. As always, I see the skyline of downtown omaha.
Just above the silhouette of the First National Building, I see a white "V". It appeared to be a plane with vapor trails but could not distinguish a plane from it. Then I saw a bright light that appeared to be a star, but it went from bright, to dim, then disappeared.
At the same time the "V" appeared to be dropping, not going away from me as an aircraft should. Then another "star" appeared in a different area of the sky, but still around the "V". Once again it repeated the cycle as the one before it: bright, dim, then disappeared.
By the time I got to my exit at 30th and Dodge, a third "star" was starting what appeared to be the same cycle, but I lost it after the horizon went behind the tree line by Boystown/Creighton hospital. By the time I got to the top of Cuming and 40th the "V" was starting to go below the tree line further west without any more sightings of the "stars." During the drive from Council Bluffs the "star" locations were as follows: 9 o'clock of the "V", 6 o'clock of the "V" and 3 o'clock of the "V", almost exactly.
Full Report Text:
I can't believe this craft went undetected for so long! On the night of the Lunar Eclipse, I went outside about half past midnight to get some cool air. I lit a cigarette and proceeded to scan the sky to see the moon. The moon was bright in the western sky.
However I looked up to the east and I saw red, green, and white lights blinking in the sky in a triangle shape. As there is a Skunk Works base not too far south from here I thought it might be a stealth bomber coming in, because it was much larger than say a 727. which is usally the biggest passenger jet to land in Lincoln.
Once I put my glasses on, I could see a Triangle Craft hovering over the southeast. I watched it for around 30 minutes before I came inside. About an hour to an hour and a half later I went back outside.
and to my surprise it was still there.
Full Report Text:
Omaha UFO seen floating above building I was in my living room on my phone, I was looking out to see the weather and then I see something above (what I think is a government building), it was floating there for a good minute or so, it was twinkled like a star but it was orange/red and way too close to be a star. Then it started to move real slow away from the building, I looked away for one second then poof, it was gone. I'm a 16 year old highschooler, and I accidentally fell asleep all evening, which is why I was up at 1am.
I wish we could post pictures because I took some but oh well. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Large triangular shaped object, estimated to be 500-750 ft across, gold colored, moving slowly, no sound. Item was first sighted while on Offutt AFB, looking west at an approx. Altitude of 2000 ft.
at a distance of approx. 2 miles from Offutt. It was first considered a possible slow moving aircraft in the traffic pattern.
Upon departing Offutt and proceeding west on Capehart Road, the item was witnessed moving at approx. 50-70 knts towards the south/southwest. While stopped on the Capehart/Ft.
Crook Road bridge, the object continued south/southwest at a constant speed, still maintaining its mid-level brightness of a gold color, until it quickly faded out as it entered low level clouds. It then hovered there for approx. 1 minute, until it suddenly winked out.
The object never appeared to make any sound. With no traffic in the vicinity, no sound could be heard.
Full Report Text:
My brother and I were watching the skies for shooting stars as we normally do when we camp out on the beach at Lake Mcconaughy. We were talking when he caught something strange out of the corner of his eye. He said to me "hey check that out".
I looked in the direction he was looking and I saw it. A round illuminated object. My brother said he saw another one trailing right behind it that was not as bright, but I did not see the second one, likely because I was not looking for it and I was extremely focused on the first brighter object the whole time.
There was a smooth/soft white light coming from the object. There was some shaded areas equally spaced on the inner section of the objects underside that formed a ring. The object made no noise.
The object moved quite fast from the North heading South. The object appeared to move in a perfectly straight line during the entire viewing. The object looked like it went straight into space as it got smaller in the distance.
I could not tell how high the object really was, it was to deceptive for me to even guess. I could not make out any definitive lines on the object, the light from the object skewed the clarity of my view. My brother thought the object was close, less then 5000 feet.
He described the object as being balloon shaped. He saw the object before I saw it and from a different angle initially. By the time I saw the object it was directly over my viewing area.
It was a fascinating experience that I will not forget.
Full Report Text:
Red, green, and yellow flashing lights moving in ninety degree angles I saw a stationary object in the the eastern sky outside my bedroom window in the far distance (like an airplane distance). At first I thought it was a plane or helicopter but noticed it did not move for about a minute despite having very bright yellow and red lights. I went to get my mother and when we returned to my window it had moved and remained stationary until it went straight down 45 seconds after returning to the window.
We left, and when I returned, the second time it had gone to its position before, but was now flashing a green and yellow light and moved quite suddenly to to the left and descended a second time. It has remained out of sight since but it only moved in 90 degree angles.
Full Report Text:
Watching lightning storm southeast of La Junta a green-blue object appeared and shot north across the sky at a very fast speed then disappeared northeast of La Junta. There was no sound as it traveled through the air.
Full Report Text:
White or yellowish solid lighted objects, seven in a row seen traveling across the night sky. We were at Fourth of July event when these objects started flying from our South sky and headed North West. They kept coming one after another up to about seven of them.
Then a few minutes later, one came across the sky from East to West. They were a solid white or yellowish light all the way past us. Seemed odd for that many planes in a row to be passing over at night? No sound at all.
Full Report Text:
Three red glowing lights viewed by three individuals. Three red lights came from the south, two in front, one shortly after. The first two took off in opposite directions, one going east the other northwest.
The trailing one I watched flying, not over the horizon out of sight, but it flew directly into space until no longer visible.
Full Report Text:
Two flickering orange objects sighted twice over in 1.5 hours time over York, Nebraska. I witnessed 2 flickering, orange lights over York at two different times.
First sighting was at around 21:00. Lights flickering quickly and in no discernible pattern. Watched for nearly a minute as the progressed from south to north before blinking out.
The local fireworks display began shortly thereafter. Display concluded at appx 22:30 and I sighted the objects again. The second sighting lasted for nearly 3 minutes as the two "craft" circled each other, stood motionless for a few moments then parted ways.
One proceeded east until it was out of sight. The other proceeded north until it had disappeared from view.
Full Report Text:
omaha aleins? red and blue then white flash light hovering around lake st then changing green with a red flashing light hovered up down then up and stayed in one spot then slowly disappeared behind trees no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: We have changed the time above, to reflect a nighttime sighting.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Bright orange lit saucer going over Lexington, NE, north to south. We were just sitting out on the porch smoking a cigarette when i looked up and saw this huge orange light in the sky. i immediately ran in the house and got everyone outside to look.
it approached from the north headed south and continued south till it disapeared. at the point that it was just over us we could see that it was pretty large, saucer shaped. only one single light.
Orange. glowing for the top of the vessel. I DO have a video of the object but it is as it was further away and leaving the area, however my camera is very high quality.
if i am contacted further by an investigator I will share the video.
Full Report Text:
I was on my way to work traveling northwest on Highway 24/258 and the sky was clear. I saw a white globe travel through the sky just above the tree line at a slow rate. The path was smooth and descending.
As it reached the top of the tree line, it disappeared. I was in my Jeep so I did not here any sound.
Full Report Text:
Low orbit orb in western sky. One low orbit orb was viewed in western sky. When first viewed it was following a normal trajectory then abruptly vanished.
The orb was light blue and bright. The light was viewed for 1 minute before disappearing.
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2015 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 | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
Triangle | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2015 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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July | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
March | 4 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
September | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
December | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2015 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 | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
Monday | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
Thursday | 4 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
Friday | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Sunday | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2015 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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07/04/15 | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
02/12/15 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
07/30/15 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
09/28/15 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
07/19/15 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2015 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 | 15 reported sightings | 65.22% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
All Nebraska Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2015
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Nebraska, in 2015
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Omaha | 6 UFO Reports | Omaha UFO Sightings in 2015 |
Lincoln | 6 UFO Reports | Lincoln UFO Sightings in 2015 |
York | 2 UFO Reports | York UFO Sightings in 2015 |
Auburn | 1 UFO Reports | Auburn UFO Sightings in 2015 |
Lexington | 1 UFO Reports | Lexington UFO Sightings in 2015 |
Grand Island | 1 UFO Reports | Grand Island UFO Sightings in 2015 |
Richlands | 1 UFO Reports | Richlands UFO Sightings in 2015 |
Norfolk | 1 UFO Reports | Norfolk UFO Sightings in 2015 |
Fremont | 1 UFO Reports | Fremont UFO Sightings in 2015 |
Lemoyne | 1 UFO Reports | Lemoyne UFO Sightings in 2015 |
Bellevue | 1 UFO Reports | Bellevue UFO Sightings in 2015 |
La Junta | 1 UFO Reports | La Junta UFO Sightings in 2015 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Nebraska
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Nebraska.