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Nebraska UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 31 UFO sighting reports in Nebraska from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (9 reports, 29.03% of total).
- November is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (10 reports, 32.26% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (9 reports, 29.03% of total).
- 12/10/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 16.13% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the evening, between the hours of 16:00 - 19:59 (11 reports, 35.48% of total).
Nebraska UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 Nebraska UFO reports from 2019, 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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I was driving home from work when I looked up and I could see an oval shaped UFO looking aircraft being followed by a helicopter. It has a few very bright lights so bright I could see the aircraft was metal. It flew pretty low to the ground, I gained speed and I could see it going far away but then when I took a turn all of a sudden I saw it in front of me and the helicopter lost it.
I then saw it lowering down to the ground, so low I couldn't see it behind some houses about 1000 feet away when I drove past the houses where the UFO was I saw it flying at the same distance from the ground foward and then it gained speed losing track of it. The UFO had a long strip of a white light and a yellowish light on the front. Also when I came home there were two fading lines in the sky.
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We were at the ATM , our car stalled out and when we got it started we noticed a large square hovering for about 3-4 minutes to the southeast . It suddenly darted sideways to the south and vanished .
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Bright object One object was seen up in the sky, looked like a star at first but then became increasingly more bright, almost like attaching a flood-light to a drone, craft then slowly moved across the sky and quickly darted, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
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Unusual fast moving object overtaking ISS This evening, Dec 10th, 2019, I was observing the track of the ISS over Omaha, Nebraska from 5:36 pm local time to 5:42 local time. The ISS track was from the northwest to the southeast. As the ISS came to a point high in the sky, I observed another object overtake the ISS, and nearly on the same path as the ISS.
The object was moving across the sky much faster (perhaps 5 times faster, or even more) than the ISS. It passed the ISS within a degree or two about when the ISS was overhead, and continued on to the southeast. The object did not maintain a constant brightness, rather it became visible for perhaps 3 or 4 seconds and then faded out for several seconds, but on a repeating and consistent basis, as if it were tumbling.
It appeared to be a point source and did not have lights (strobes, rotating beacon, navigation lights, etc.) that would be representative of an aircraft.
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I was returning back to my shop from picking up a load at work and I thought I was seeing Orion's belt when I got out of my truck I counted the lights flying in a line and there was over 30 the first line was the longest And at the end there wear 3 in a row and then the other line did not have as many maybe 14 they were moving from the north west the wsw.
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Lights were moving from the northwest sky towards the southeast sky. Not really any sound evenly spaced. Just lights not blinking lights.
About 20 or so.
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100s of lights moving in formation, and joining in from the sides. At approximately 06:11, on 12/10/19, I stepped out to smoke a cigarette, like I do every morning. I looked up to catch sight of the meteor shower, and to look for satellites.
This is something I do every morning, when getting my kids ready for school. As I watched, I noticed what I thought was a satellite going from the North West, to the South West. I then saw another, behind it.
I thought I was lucky, and able to see 2 satellites at the same time. I then noticed, that there were a string of them ahead of the 2 that I originally saw. They kept "popping" out of the sky in the same spot, and going off into the horizon.
I started counting, and looked closer at them through a pair of binoculars. They were Oval in shape from what I could see, No flashing lights, just what seemed to be a reflection of sunlight. I couldn't get a very clear view of them through the binoculars, and wished I had a better way of seeing them.
There were over 100 that I saw, but they were already flying over when I went out, so I don't know exactly how many there were. My neighbor came home, and I asked her to look up. She also saw them.
Starlink would not have them joining in the formation from the sides, like some of them were doing.
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57 separate bright white lights flying from West Southwest to the Northeast I went to let my dogs out at approx 6:10am this morning it was still pretty dark out yet so visibility was pretty good In the night sky with very little if not any cloud cover. I often look up at the sky this time of year because of the waterfowl usually flying over. I happened to notice a bright white light traveling from west southwest towards the Northeast.
I thought nothing of it at first because we typically see allot of satellites traveling over head in the night and early morning. I watched it for a minute then happened to see another one trailing behind the first one and it appeared to be a few to several miles behind the initial light. I thought that to be strange but not completely out of the ordinary.
Then I saw another and another and another. Then sometimes 2 close together but not connected. Then another and another.
It was a constant stream of separate lights all flying in the same direction at presumably the same altitude. It was quiet and very little wind so I could hear that they made no noise and no vapor trail was visible. As we see many commercial jets fly over all the time and they are easy to differentiate.
I yelled at my son To come outside to see if he could see what I was seeing and he and I stood and watched no less than 57 separate flying objects passed over in a 20 min period flying on that same heading. Sometimes pretty good distances apart and several flying fairly close together. But we felt the pattern was quite random to be sure.
I am a military vet and I’ve seen allot of different strategic flying formations, from both Navy and Air Force and I felt this was just to weird to ignore. We counted 57 but am not sure how long it had been going on before I spotted em. We tried recording the images but they were to small to pick up on our phone cameras.
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57 separate bright white lights flying from West Southwest to the Northeast I went to let my dogs out at approx 6:10am this morning it was still pretty dark out yet so visibility was pretty good In the night sky with very little if not any cloud cover. I often look up at the sky this time of year because of the waterfowl usually flying over. I happened to notice a bright white light traveling from west southwest towards the Northeast.
I thought nothing of it at first because we typically see allot of satellites traveling over head in the night and early morning. I watched it for a minute then happened to see another one trailing behind the first one and it appeared to be a few to several miles behind the initial light. I thought that to be strange but not completely out of the ordinary.
Then I saw another and another and another. Then sometimes 2 close together but not connected. Then another and another.
It was a constant stream of separate lights all flying in the same direction at presumably the same altitude. It was quiet and very little wind so I could hear that they made no noise and no vapor trail was visible. As we see many commercial jets fly over all the time and they are easy to differentiate.
I yelled at my son To come outside to see if he could see what I was seeing and he and I stood and watched no less than 57 separate flying objects passed over in a 20 min period flying on that same heading. Sometimes pretty good distances apart and several flying fairly close together. But we felt the pattern was quite random to be sure.
I am a military vet and I’ve seen allot of different strategic flying formations, from both Navy and Air Force and I felt this was just to weird to ignore. We counted 57 but am not sure how long it had been going on before I spotted em. We tried recording the images but they were to small to pick up on our phone cameras.
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Multiple spherical objects evenly spaced and heading in the same direction I stepped outside around 6:00 a.m. this morning to take a quick glance at the sky as I'm an amateur astronomer.
I noticed what appeared to be a satellite but was moving from Southwest to Northeast. To my surprise there was another similar object following directly behind the first in exactly the same direction. When I looked down towards the Southwest several more objects were present spaced exactly the same distance apart and all heading in the same SW to NE direction.
Initially I thought these were maybe military craft but there was no sound whatsoever and they appeared to be much higher in the sky similar to satellites. I'm not certain how many objects in total there were prior to my observation. I counted 8 while I was watching.
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100 high altitude lights traveling across the sky traveling fast for 15 mins. They came from the southwest at high altitude going pretty fast. No marker lights.
No shapes that you could distinguish. Just balls of light following each other above usual plane altitude spaced out miles apart going north west in a line.
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On November 24th, 2019 I and another person witnessed over 100 ufo’s glowing lights that were in a line that went across the sky and it took about 5 minutes for all of them to cross.
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Eight big, bright lights in a row Driving north there were 8 brights lights in the sky. At first I checked to see if they were lights in a field but my view was too high as I was driving. As soon as I slowed down one by one they disappeared.
They were in a long line and it gave me the feeling of something big because of their size and brightness. This is the second occurrence that I have had in the last 10 years. The time before I thought something was going to land on the highway as I was driving and then the lights moved up and disappeared.
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Me and my friend where driving around and saw a green shaped circle flying in the sky and it disappeared in a matter of 30 seconds super crazy!.
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I was driving north towards wahoo on a highway from Lincoln and I noticed there was a very bright light above what look like Wahoo it was probably a little further but it was very bright and it was not moving and it was up there for about 2 minutes I looked at it a lot because it was so bright and so high in the sky and I looked at my phone for a few seconds and I looked up and it was gone. The sky I looked at it a lot because it was so bright and so high in the sky and I looked at my phone for a few seconds and I looked up and it was gone. the Sky was dark enough that there was no way a light that bright so high in the sky could have disappeared that fast after it was not moving the whole entire time I was looking at it.
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My wife and I saw a red dot appear in the eastern sky as we traveled east on Harrison Street east of the intersection of 180th street. The dot was illuminated for about 3 seconds and disappeared. The Eastern sky appeared completely clear.
The object appeared to move very slightly from North to south and veered easterly before disappearing. The object appeared at about 120 degree angle juxtaposed the rising full moon in the eastern sky.
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Friend said to come out side I did quickly seen a trail of lights moving fast. I yelled for the remaining 3 to come verify and the did. Must of been at least 1000 feet long and the lights shimmered at one point where you could see the depth of the vessel.
No sound and were a mile away from the airport ((NUFORC Note: Cluster of "Starlink" satellites. PD)).
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Strange UFO sighting outside our home in West Point, NE. At about 1:34 a.m.
, we went outside to smoke a cigarette and looked up at the clear night sky and noticed a /\ shaped unknown flying object (UFO) in the sky to the west. The UFO was flying from the Northwest to the Southeast. There were seven round shaped lights that were very faint luminescence and barely noticable.
The UFO was moving slowly and was silent and made strange and smooth movements unlike anything we have ever seen before. After about 30 seconds, the object disappeared from our field of vision.
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We were at Tyson to pick up my mom and then my brother noticed some white little spheres in the sky, I thought he was lying. I checked it out and there was about 6 or 7 aircrafts, the thing is, they were flying about the height planes fly, and they looked the size of a commercial plane, I took a video if it and I fought about 4 flying objects, it was pretty scary.
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Stepped outside before heading to bed. I was looking up to see if the big dipper was in view that late. The sky was clear and cloudless.
Out of the northern horizon I caught movement. I caught direct visual and watched a boomerang shaped craft fly from a N-NW to south path. What I found to be unsettling: dark smoke color, no navigational lights, no sound at all - mid-low altitude, no more than 10,000 feet in altitude.
Speed was alarming as it took 5-7 seconds to cover the direct route. The shape was nothing I have seen. It was not a flying wing.
Chevron is close, boomerang is in my opinion the best way to describe. Thin but congruent, rounded wingtips, no fuselage.
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 9 reported sightings | 29.03% of all reports |
Circle | 5 reported sightings | 16.13% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 10 reported sightings | 32.26% of all reports |
December | 7 reported sightings | 22.58% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Tuesday | 9 reported sightings | 29.03% of all reports |
Friday | 4 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Saturday | 4 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Wednesday | 4 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Monday | 4 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
Sunday | 3 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2019 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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12/10/19 | 5 reported sightings | 16.13% of all reports |
11/24/19 | 3 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
11/25/19 | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
12/11/19 | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
06/04/19 | 1 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 11 reported sightings | 35.48% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 10 reported sightings | 32.26% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 4 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 4 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
All Nebraska Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Nebraska, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Nebraska
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Nebraska.