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Nebraska UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 21 UFO sighting reports in Nebraska from 2018 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (5 reports, 23.81% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 33.33% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 23.81% of total).
- 07/08/18 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 14.29% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (15 reports, 71.43% of total).
Nebraska UFO Sighting Reports in 2018
This is a sampling of 20 Nebraska UFO reports from 2018, 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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Small triangular shaped series of red and white lights moving about with very quick up, down and lateral movements, not to be confused with man made aircraft.I have seen this 4 or 5 times within the last year at the same time of day in the same area. Low on the Horizon to the East of Court House and Jail Rock.
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Driving from Omaha got past York and saw a green orb shoot across the sky. Then it disappeared. I was very freaked out had to call my husband and make him talk to me the rest of the way home.
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Three red dots in a triangular pattern appeared in the sky and disappeared shortly after. I was driving home and felt a strange presence (scarier this time). I looked up into the sky as if expecting it and moments later the "craft" appeared ahead of me in the sky.
Three red dots. Really far away this time but definitely not stars. It stayed for a moment and then when I reached a certain point in the road (this always happens) it disappeared.
It seems harmless and there was only one this time. I don't know why they are watching or following me. I am not always afraid by them - one time I saw four of them- they follow me down Lincoln Road.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Large, oval/rectangle shaped craft hovering for a few moments before disappearing. It was sometime around 11 at night, maybe early 12, and me and a group of four friends were heading through Omaha, Nebraska. We were in the suburbs, close to downtown but not in it, but I could see over the houses into the big city area.
There was an oval/rectangle shaped craft in the sky, with two lights on the sides of it, but that was it for lights. I thought at first it was an airplane, but after a few moments of staring at it I realized it couldn't have been. It was hovering around the tops of the buildings, and was staying pretty still.
I watched it for a few moments, before we passed by a treeline, and I lost sight of it. When we re-emerged, the craft was gone. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Very pure white bright light came from the N.E changed directions to the west with a arcing 90° turn and disappeared from my view straight down towards ground or horizon (house in the way so couldnt tell if went to ground). I'm in the town of Cozad.
Object appeared to be within 10-15 miles. Hard to tell. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) I had one misspelled word (fround, meant ground) Was nervous forgot to mention speed was beyond anything like a known aircraft Was 1000 mph or more imo.
Traveled almost like a smooth or fluid type slight wobble. Hard to put in words. ((END ADDENDUM)).
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MADAR Node 132.
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MADAR Node 132.
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UFO along highway 34 Hamilton County, Nebraska On Friday October 12, 2018, my daughter and I were driving to Grand Island, NE to go shopping, at approximately 21:45 near the Iams plant on Hwy 34 we noticed an object in the sky with flashing red and white lights that was going North (could not tell what shape it was) at first we thought it was a plane but it was flying too low and then it stopped and made a 90 degree turn and headed west along highway 34 toward Grand Island. As we were driving, we got to an area of houses called Sunset Terrace the objective was hovering above the houses, it looked like it had 2 headlights on; then it completely turned around and disappeared; my daughter took a video of it which only looked like a street light in the video, her phone did not work right after capturing the video for at least 15 minutes. While driving to Grand Island after Sunset Terrace we saw the object again going Southwest.
At approximately midnight on our way home we noticed several of these objects in the skies all along highway 34.
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I walked out side to let the dog out and noticed in the sky multiple bright lights flying in an odd pattern. At first they had a bluish hue to them. I thought that they were spot lights of some kind but began to realize the lights were actually coming from behind the clouds.
They were flying at a great speed. The flight path was pretty repetitive but at times they would fly in a irregular pattern. They would also fly at different altitudes throughout their orbit.
After about 10 mins 3 of the lights trailed off and only two were left. At this point the lights lost their blue color and became more silver/white. I called my neighbor and his fiance to come and look at them also in order to make sure that someone else witnessed this event other than myself.
It is possible that it was spot lights but the light appeared to be coming from behind the clouds and it definitely was not a regular aircraft. Also the flight path was not how an automated spot light wo! uld move. The airspace in which the lights were located was a barren field where there is nothing but farm land.
I believe they were probably flying in close proximity of the Iowa-Nebraska border. Another thing to note is that the area that this occurred was very close to a major US Air Base. ((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Bright large light in southern sky over north eastern Nebraska. Bright, oval-shaped light. Seemed like a dark shading across horizontal center.
Southern sky. 90° from southern horizon. Est 1/8" by 1/4".
? Distance. Non-moving. Didn't think at the time, then later-wait! That was impossible! So don't know how long.
Gone 20 min later. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Mars?? PD)).
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One large bright light seen in the sky, west of Lyman, Nebraska. Light was seen bobbing up and down, as well as drastically veering from left to right every few moments. Movements seemed random.
One smaller light came from the north and joined the larger light in the west.
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spoon shaped silver gray with blinking white light on it While outside close to sundown i looked up and saw what i though was an aircraft at first until i realized i have never seen one like that. It was spoon shaped big top skinny bottom. it had a flashing white light on it on the top and it was silver gray.
I saw it two minutes before it disappeared.it made no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Two side by side light green orbs traveled in tandem changing orientation to top to bottom - four in total were observed. At approximately 11:10 on Satuday, July 28th, lights were seen coming out of the north northeast and disappearing into the southern sky. Lights were light green in color and not well defined.
No noise at all was heard on a very quiet night. Four lights in total were observed. All sightings lasted 10 seconds from first observance.
Second two traveled in perfect tandem; side by side at first, and switched position to top to bottom before disappearing from sight. Distance between the two lights never changed. Fourth green light behaved the same as the first.
There were approximately 30 seconds between sightings. To our knowledge, all activity ceased by 11:15.
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While driving into town, I saw a one-second brilliant blinding flash in the sky.(like having your eyes temporarily blinded by a flash from an old-fashioned camera at about 7:30 pm in Beatrice, Nebraska on 07/27/18. After it flashed there was a small dark floating dissipating black cloud.
I believe my passenger saw it too, yet didn't say anything either. Meteorites don't leave a dissipating "puff-cloud" of black smoke.
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SOUTH OMAHA LOOKS LIKE ABOVE offit air force base spinning sphere orange looks like drone of sum sort that is for scanning I-80/I-29 Bellview area. THERE EVERY NIGHT TILL MORNING. ((NUFORC Mote: Mars? PD)).
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Greenish light going through the sky, then a burst of light out the back and took off faster then disappeared.
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Saw a UFO I was driving and I saw a circle looking thing lit with a green light. It was moving parallel to the ground and at a speed way to fast to be a helicopter of plane. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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This light came across, stopped for 1 second, then immediately bursted away. This shape moved quickly across the Eastern sky. It performed two quick bursts along our skyline.
It was really quick. Immediately disappeared.
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Two lights seeming moving in submarine like motion. We were observing the stars on a camping trip and noticed two large yellow/orange lights floating about 100 yards from each other they remained level and appeared to turn- similar to a submarine. The lights were much closer than the stars appeared, they moved very slowly, about 5-10mph before it turned disappearing.
The lights disappeared one then the other into nothing.
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Four short spurts across the sky until it hit the horizon. My friends and I were stargazing and suddenly a flash starts to fly across the sky. It seemed as if it flew in short visible spurts, we saw four, until it flew into the horizon where we couldn’t see any farther.
My friend I looked at each other and we both agreed it could be a UFO. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 23.81% of all reports |
Oval | 4 reported sightings | 19.05% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 7 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
October | 6 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
November | 4 reported sightings | 19.05% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2018 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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Sunday | 5 reported sightings | 23.81% of all reports |
Saturday | 5 reported sightings | 23.81% of all reports |
Friday | 4 reported sightings | 19.05% of all reports |
Wednesday | 3 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2018 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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07/08/18 | 3 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
11/02/18 | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
10/11/18 | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
07/21/18 | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
10/03/18 | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 71.43% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 19.05% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
All Nebraska Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2018
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Nebraska, in 2018
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Omaha | 6 UFO Reports | Omaha UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Ogalala | 1 UFO Reports | Ogalala UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Bennington | 1 UFO Reports | Bennington UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Lincoln | 1 UFO Reports | Lincoln UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Alma | 1 UFO Reports | Alma UFO Sightings in 2018 |
North Platte | 1 UFO Reports | North Platte UFO Sightings in 2018 |
York | 1 UFO Reports | York UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Cozad | 1 UFO Reports | Cozad UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Bridgeport | 1 UFO Reports | Bridgeport UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Gretna | 1 UFO Reports | Gretna UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Beatrice | 1 UFO Reports | Beatrice UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Nebraska City | 1 UFO Reports | Nebraska City UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Phillips | 1 UFO Reports | Phillips UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Bellevue | 1 UFO Reports | Bellevue UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Verdigre | 1 UFO Reports | Verdigre UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Lyman | 1 UFO Reports | Lyman UFO Sightings in 2018 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Nebraska
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Nebraska.