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Nebraska UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 25 UFO sighting reports in Nebraska from 2017 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (5 reports, 20.00% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 16.00% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 24.00% of total).
- 06/22/17 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 8.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (9 reports, 36.00% of total).
Nebraska UFO Sighting Reports in 2017
This is a sampling of 20 Nebraska UFO reports from 2017, 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:
I was outside and look around. The i look up and at first i thought it was a a drone but then I realized it was clear and had redish yellow lit circles and it looked kind of like clear jelly . I'm not really sure but it flew and it kind of moved in a way that a drone wouldn't move I just kind of flew over my house and head south.
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My husband and I have been seeing these bizarre objects in the sky for sometime now. All between 11-3am. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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It's a line of lights that are flashing and blinking all around it I can't tell what shape it is but they are orange yellow green blue white red and it has been there for almost 3 hours in the sky southeast stationary from the city of Omaha. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a sighting of the star, Sirius. We have corrected the time above.
PD)).
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Traingular lighted high speed flying object Object had triangular lights. Flying fairly low, slightly above tree line. As I approach it seemed to coming towards my vehicle.
I came to an intersection and paused as the object passed the intersection and paused. When I turned the corner the object quickly started coming in my direction and seemed to pass above my vehicle before I reached my destination. The strange part is the object did not appear to turn around it just flew one direction and then started flying in the opposite direction.
Full Report Text:
I wish that I could see them, I aim camera btween the chem trails and the sun and photograph them regularly. I work in this area, this happened during the totality of the Sept.21 solar eclipse.
We took a few hrs. off to observe. It started when I was talking to another individual that happened to see a flash of orange to the north.
I had my phone in my hand, so I snapped some shots to the North. I then turned partially around and continued the conversation. I began taking snapshots facing the opposite direction over my left shoulder toward the sun.
The sun was under the effect of the 2 minute totality, practically dark. I did not see or hear anything out of the ordinary. When I got home that evening and started going through the pictures, I could have fainted.
What I filmed and what I was seeing was two totally different things. The chemtrails were blatant that day. They started that morning and continued until right before the event.
Practically created full cloud cover and darkened the sky. They continue to this day and I continue to take pictures capturing the spheres on film. I do not know how to get the word out or where to report the incidents.
I have no idea what they are after. I do know that they are very busy and continues to grow in numbers and frequency. My last pics were taken just yesterday.
Full Report Text:
The craft(?) was very high in the pre-dawn sky. It was heading southerly, then stopped. Started moving again south but kind of wiggly with large sweeping movement and stopped again.
Started heading southwest, stopped again. Headed east, then stopped and stayed there. I am accustomed to seeing satellites, they move consistently.
This was not that.
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off-white or light silver cigar shaped object drifting slowly across the sky It was lunchtime and I was driving northeast to my daughter's house, and off to the west, I spotted a cigar-shaped object. There were no wings or protrusions on it, just cigar-shaped and either off-white or a very light silver. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
UFO sighting in Papillion Nebraska on 9/28/17 While playing in the front yard, I glanced up and saw a glint off an object in the sky. What appeared to first be an airplane, turned into what I thought was something falling from the sky.maybe a balloon.
After five minutes of looking at the object, I had my wife give me the camera (Canon EOS Rebel T6i camera with 250mm lens) to take a picture. Snapped a few pictures and zoomed in on viewer to get better idea. Could clearly see light within what appeared to be translucent object with "glowing" lights within.
Had wife come out and look too. Invited neighbors out to look. Tried to look at object with a telescope; however, cirrus clouds were beginning to block the field of view and sun was going down.
However, despite the sun going down, object appeared to be glowing in the sky. Decided that object was approximately 70,000-80,000 feet based on clouds. Object was slowly moving south.
Upper level winds were 270/80, so a weather balloon would not have been moving in that direction. After about 90 minutes, too many clouds were obstructing the view and darkness set in. I tried contacting two local news stations (WOWT & KETV), but neither seemed interested.
I sent one of them a picture, but have not heard anything. I am not clicking that I wish to be contacted by an investigator. However, if something comes of it, I'll certainly talk to someone to give more details.
It was cool to see and certainly would like more of an explanation as to what the anomaly/phenomenon was.
Full Report Text:
Husband and wife witness a "phalanx" of lights pass overhead. Telephoned Report: This is a preliminary written report, submitted on behalf of a husband and wife, who witnessed a peculiar object pass overhead their location. During a telephone call to the Hotline, the husband reported a sighting of an object that reminded him of the objects seen during the dramatic "Phoenix Lights" event, i.
e. a seemingly quite large, phalanx-shaped formation of lights. The witness reported that the formation was approximately the apparent size of a full Moon, and that the lights in the formation were approximately the size, and color, of stars in the nighttime sky.
NUFORC is awaiting written reports, as well as illustrations, from both witnesses, and will post them once they have arrived at our Center.
Full Report Text:
SHINY WHITE OBJECT IN THE SKY, VERY VISIBLE TO NAKED EYE. APPROXIMATELY 10A.M.
, WHILE WORKING, NOTICED A WHITE ROUND FIGURE IN THE SKY. CO-WORKERS WITNESSED THIS AS WELL. SHAPE DID NOT MOVE FOR SEVERAL HOURS.
AT ONE POINT, WHILE LOOKING AT THE SHAPE, IT DISAPPEARED. THE OBJECT WAS GONE FOR A TIME LONG ENOUGH TO CALL THE REPORTING CENTER. WHILE ON THE PHONE, THE OBJECT RE-APPEARED.
NOT SURE IF IT WAS THE ANGLE THE SUN WAS HITTING THE OBJECT OR IF IT MOVED MOMENTARILY. CALLED FRIENDS AND COWORKERS AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS TO CONFIRM WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE ABLE TO SEE IT. THEY COULD SEE AND DESCRIBE THE OBJECT AS I SAW IT.
BY APPROXIMATELY 3:30, THE OBJECT WAS GONE. THE OBJECT WAS EASILY SEEN FROM THESE THREE COORDINATES: 1) LAT-41 56'16.31"N LON-96 27'42098"W 2) LAT-41 43'52.
06"N LON-96 30'5.32"W 3) LAT-41 47'2.32"N LON-96 13'12.
51"W ((NUFORC Note: We spoke with the witness via telephone on two occasions, and he seemed to us to be exceptionally serious-minded, and unusually capable as an objective witness. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Sitting on the front porch looking at the moon, I look to the left of it and a flash of bright light happen and disappeared at very fast speed!.
Full Report Text:
Odd star-like light seen in NW suburban Omaha during daylight hours At approximately 4:04 PM, a star-like light, bright enough to see in daylight, was spotted by my friend in northwest suburban Omaha. It was stationary and he pointed it out to me. It took me a second to find it in the sky.
Once I did, it seemed to become slightly brighter. It was to the northwest of our location. This occurred for approximately 2-3 minutes.
It moved rapidly seemingly to decreasing altitude (lower), then moved to the west and then to the north quickly before disappearing. Total time of occurrence from spotting to disappearance was approximately a little over 3 minutes.
Full Report Text:
We were staring at the stars, when a bright light flashed for approximately 2 seconds, before disappearing, It seemed to have a spin to the movement, and flash then saw another slightly less bright in a similar area in the sky they were about 45 seconds apart.
Full Report Text:
At approximataly 1:18 pm, I was taking a short break from work. I lay next to a corn field for shade. Looking up at the clouds, I noticed a ball of light traveling straight across the sky.
It came to a full stop, and made a strange maneuver. I looked away for a brief second, and when I looked for it again, the UFO was gone. ((NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone with the witness, who telephoned our Hotline, and we found him to be seemingly sober-minded, and apparently sincere about his sighting.
Some of his co-workers saw the same object, although we have not received report from them. Source of this report forwards photos of discoloration on his hands. We cannot imagine how the sighting of an object in the sky could cause the discolorations.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Red light moving rapidly across the sky in all directions at immense speed. Sighted at plane height over Omaha, Nebraska. We watched from a hill and initially spotted it as a small, stationary, red ball of light.
It would occasionally switch to a blinking green light and then back to red. After looking at it for some time, it rapidly moved to the left, stopped, and it changed to a blinking green light. It then ascended in the blink of an eye (literally).
As soon as you blinked, the light was an immense distance higher than it had been a second previously. We could see it ascending through the clouds so quickly that it could've climbed out of our sight in probably two seconds. It then turned back to a static red light (stopped flashing) and darted to the right across the entire sky.
It was moving so quickly that we had to sprint to keep up with it. It covered the whole horizon. It then paused on a dime, shifted slightly to the left, and began a fast descent until it disappeared from sight into storm clouds.
Only one light was observed. It was so high in the sky, and so erratically moving, that we could not place it as any normal object. We have never seen a normal object move so quickly and at such a high height.
It was also quite far away, so for it to look as though it was moving so quickly, it must have been going at an unfathomably rapid speed.
Full Report Text:
Red/Green light craft seen flying irregulary over Omaha. Rapid acceleration and deacceleration. Rapidly moving object seen over Omaha.
Changed between green and red lights when moving. Object could stop and remain stationary in the sky. Object was able to accelerate very rapidly and could ascend/descend very quickly.
Estimated top speed: ~700mph.
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During a severe storm that night, I had been watching the clouds and saw a black square/rectangle flying over an apartment complex nearby. The object had four light for each corner. Three red and one yellow/orange.
It looked like there was a faint grey outline of the whole thing. It was going over slowly, then sped up quickly and finally just faded altogether. It wasn't dark out yet, the sun was just starting to go down.
Full Report Text:
About 1:30am, I joking told some friends we were gona go to a meditation spot I knew of to try to make contact with aliens. when we were loading into the car we are a bright green and white flash. (Within a few milk seconds) my first thought was, ooh a shooting star, but it's green, of course mid thought before I could speak it changed direction loops around in a circle and crashes straight down.
It's 15 miles north of Omaha city limits past HW 75. We got to see it and snap pictures for all of about 6 minutes after we found where it crashed before military personal from Offuett FAB showed up and told us that it was a federal investigation and we had to leave. (We were going to try to get a piece of it bit knowing what it was but it was metallic much metal with green and white glow, and it crashed into a 60 year radius hollle in the ground and it was way to hit to approach.
There is no spot for pics on this site, the shape of it looked melted but partially like a pyramid facing up and another pyramid facing down into the same shape and and oval piece of molten iron or uranium or something. ((NUFORC Note: We spoke with the source of the report and he sounded to us to be sincere. However, we have attempted to contact him again, and he does not return telephone messages.
We suspect that the report is a hoax. PD)).
Full Report Text:
I saw what I initially thought was a satellite, but then it disappeared and reappeared multiple times. It appeared for approximately 5 seconds before it faded to disappear then reappear 5-10 seconds later in the same line, but after it disappeared behind a house it reappeared in the spot that I originally saw it and move in a 90 degree direction that it was going the first time.
Full Report Text:
2 Lights, one wobbling, one stationary. 150 degrees SE for ten minutes. Gone after 30.
A friend, his girlfriend, and myself were standing outside talking, and he pointed the lights out to me at about 02:30. They were in the southeastern sky (approximately 150 degrees on the compass). The right and left lights were only very slightly one above the other with the left one being a tad higher.
The left light would wobble back and forth and up and down but the right light was as steady as a rock. It seemed to be getting closer as we headed inside after watching them for a good ten minutes. We did not hear any planes passing with in hearing distance.
When we returned outside 30 minutes later we could no longer see the lights. The right hand light was fairly steady, the left hand light seemed to get a tad brighter and then darker. I look at stars fairly frequently.
I checked my astrolabe app to ensure the lights weren't stars or planets. I'm skeptical of it being a ufo, but I couldn't really come up with a good explanation for it. I wish I had gotten it on camera, but I figured my camera would ((not work well)) in the dark.
((NUFORC Note: Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides little contact information. PD)).
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2017 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 | 20.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Circle | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2017 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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June | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
September | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
October | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
May | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2017 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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Thursday | 6 reported sightings | 24.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Friday | 4 reported sightings | 16.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Monday | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2017 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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06/22/17 | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
05/04/17 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
09/28/17 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
02/24/17 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
09/29/17 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2017 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 | 9 reported sightings | 36.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 7 reported sightings | 28.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 2 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
All Nebraska Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2017
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Nebraska, in 2017
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Omaha | 8 UFO Reports | Omaha UFO Sightings in 2017 |
Lincoln | 4 UFO Reports | Lincoln UFO Sightings in 2017 |
La Vista | 2 UFO Reports | La Vista UFO Sightings in 2017 |
Grand Island | 1 UFO Reports | Grand Island UFO Sightings in 2017 |
Dawson | 1 UFO Reports | Dawson UFO Sightings in 2017 |
Papillion | 1 UFO Reports | Papillion UFO Sightings in 2017 |
Kearney | 1 UFO Reports | Kearney UFO Sightings in 2017 |
Lyons | 1 UFO Reports | Lyons UFO Sightings in 2017 |
Mitchell | 1 UFO Reports | Mitchell UFO Sightings in 2017 |
Bennington | 1 UFO Reports | Bennington UFO Sightings in 2017 |
Gretna | 1 UFO Reports | Gretna UFO Sightings in 2017 |
York | 1 UFO Reports | York UFO Sightings in 2017 |
Ashland | 1 UFO Reports | Ashland UFO Sightings in 2017 |
Wellfleet | 1 UFO Reports | Wellfleet UFO Sightings in 2017 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Nebraska
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Nebraska.