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Nebraska UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 34 UFO sighting reports in Nebraska from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (14 reports, 41.18% of total).
- April is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (8 reports, 23.53% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (11 reports, 32.35% of total).
- 04/18/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 11.76% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (23 reports, 67.65% of total).
Nebraska UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Nebraska UFO reports from 2020, 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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Very bright white lights moved in a straight line from west to east from Jupiter to Mars. Approximately 100 in the first event then 38 moved from west to northeast at approximately 19:15 central time. The last object moved faster than the rest like it was attempting to catch up.
The moon has not risen yet and this is several miles from the nearest town. There are a lot of stars Outside of the vehicle and turned the lights off to watch.
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A string of 12 lights moving southwest to northeast We saw 12 lights moving from southwest to northeast. They were evenly spaced apart. The lights were all the same intensity.
No flashing lights were associated with them. As they moved to the northeast they gradually faded away, one by one. We observed this for about 1 – 2 minutes.
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Row of 20 or so lights evenly spaced over night sky We were looking toward the Southern sky at Jupiter and Saturn when we saw this row of 20 or so stars in a line evenly spaced from the south to west. We realized these were not stars as they were moving slowly from South to West keeping an even spacing. This went on for a minute or two then they all disappeared.
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I was out on the back patio around 4:10 in the morning, looking up at eastern sky, and saw a light move in a arc “like it was doing a turn” . It faded in and then out, like it was catching the reflection of the 3/4 moon. Skies were clear, I would estimate it was 20,000 to 30,000 ft AGL, no navigation lights.
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they are hovering around the river every night I'm scared to fish anymore.
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I took pictures and now its stalking me Missouri River, There's strange floating low lights, they even change color. They just hover all night and retreat by light of day higher then can be seen.I've got photos.
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Large white orb overhead A large orb in the sky above in the Southern sky, but very high up. It did n't move for the whole hour we watched. It was larger than a star or planet that you see.
My husband has an app on his phone that identifies stars and planets and this did not show up on it.
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We didn’t see a craft. What we saw a flashing moving light. It was off to my left.
At first I thought it was an airplane. But then I thought it was too low . It quickly shot to my right (north), it quickly changed direction and came toward us (East) then quickly changed direction and shot off northeast.
I thought it looked blue with a white glow. My friend thought it was green with a white glow.
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this is hanging in the sky white still there in south omaha above the missouri river at 13th and Missouri avenue.
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Fast moving ball of light appears twice in the sky over North Platte Nebraska. At approximately 9:15pm sitting in my living room I had just watched a severe thunderstorm go by and it was still cloudy with flashes of lightning in the sky. I suddenly saw a ball of light go across the sky through the clouds.
It took no more than a second to disappear over our garage going East to West. Moments later my wife had I were standing in the back yard when she saw the same kind of light moving north to south and only taking a second to go from horizon to horizon. So fast that when I turned it was gone.
There was a lot of lightning in the sky but this was not lightning. It was too fast to be any aircraft I have ever seen. I was a helicopter mechanic in the Army and my dad worked on jets for TWA and I grew up living under the landing path for MCI /Kansas City International Airport.
I know what planes look like and sound like. The ball of light was partially concealed by the clouds so we could not see any shape other than just a round light.
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((NUFORC Note: No information provided by witness. PD)).
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Large oval shaped UFO West of Gretna, NE It was off in the distance, West of Gretna, NE, by at least 20 miles, but it was still huge in the sky . It was oval as an outline but the center seemed to be open. It was not smoke or clouds because it remained stationary for at least 10-15 minutes.
I tried taking a picture of it, but the pictures didn't turn out very clear because it was so far away.
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Objects over bellevue, ne We were setting in our back yard looking for shooting stars whe. We started seeing things going across the sky. Some could possably been satellites and a couple were shooting stars but some i don't know what they were.
You would catch a flash then it would go across the sky like a plane but moving at a high rate of speed very high up and there was no tail.
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White ball of light moving slowly through the sky and switched directions. Around 9:45 pm my brother and I observed a round white ball moving west to east in the southern sky. The object moved at a fairly slow speed.
The white light was constant, not blinking. After about 1 minute the white light turned and started moving in a southeasterly direction, when it turned to the southeast it began to wobble some. It still was moving at a slow speed until it disappeared.
When the white ball "wobbled" we knew it was not a plane or satellite.
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White bright light flying past in the sky for 2 mins and disappeared suddenly. There was a circular bright white light flying in the sky. It was steadily moving, and it wasn't an airplane.
It went on for about two minutes and just disappeared suddenly.
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Saw 10-15 bright objects flying at very high altitude in a straight line formation headed northeast.
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Saw 10-15 bright objects miles between one another flying at very high altitude in a straight line formation headed northeast. (Already emailed 5/16 but forgot distance between each light).
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After sunset 2 large UFOs flying away I was out walking after dark on the drive in front of the country house. I felt euphoria and elation. When I looked to the horizon, 2 UFOs were flying away in an ESE direction.
They were far away but large, flying in a straight line, so maybe they flew over my head but I didn’t see them until they had passed. They looked just like the UFOs in the Phoenix lights case. I took notes in my iPhone afterwards.
Sometimes my phone would crash, but only when I was out walking after dark. I have hours of lost time where I don’t remember anything.
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low flying semi transparent silent object as my girlfriend and I were exiting our hot tub, she noticed an object that had a similar shape as a winged drone moving directly over us at a very slow speed in a North East direction at an altitude of @ 25'. the object was semi transparent but a definite outline could be seen. It appeared to move like a stingray in water but without the large motion sweep of its wings.
It was obviously not a bird or any other flying animal. The relatively fixed axis of the "wings" would rule that out the translucent appearance would discount any technology available to the public. It was as if it were "cloaked" to use a sci-fi term.
It flew so slowly you could have paced it at a brisk walk. there were no lights and it made no noise. wing span I would estimate to be @ 10-12'.
there was no clear distinction of a cockpit or fuselage or tail rudder and the object appeared to be flat, yet able to change shape to some degree. It was almost as if it were an ap! parition. We both witnessed it until it changed flight path slightly and disappeared behind another building on my property.
Our dog seemed to be scared as we entered the house after the event. This would be out of character for him. I don't know if it is related but as we were sitting in the hot tub, the stars and planets did not seem to make their normal path across the night sky.
it seemed as if they sat still for @ and hour or so.
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Witnessed cigar shaped object while plane spotting in my front yard.
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 14 reported sightings | 41.18% of all reports |
Circle | 6 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2020 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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April | 8 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
January | 4 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
March | 4 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
August | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
September | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 11 reported sightings | 32.35% of all reports |
Tuesday | 9 reported sightings | 26.47% of all reports |
Friday | 5 reported sightings | 14.71% of all reports |
Thursday | 4 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Wednesday | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 2.94% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2020 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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04/18/20 | 4 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
06/02/20 | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
08/11/20 | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
07/29/20 | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
03/20/20 | 2 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Nebraska UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 23 reported sightings | 67.65% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 5 reported sightings | 14.71% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 8.82% of all reports |
All Nebraska Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Nebraska, in 2020
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Lincoln | 6 UFO Reports | Lincoln UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Omaha | 6 UFO Reports | Omaha UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Blair | 3 UFO Reports | Blair UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Bellevue | 2 UFO Reports | Bellevue UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Wahoo | 2 UFO Reports | Wahoo UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Kearney | 2 UFO Reports | Kearney UFO Sightings in 2020 |
North Platte | 2 UFO Reports | North Platte UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Gretna | 1 UFO Reports | Gretna UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Blue Springs | 1 UFO Reports | Blue Springs UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Papillion | 1 UFO Reports | Papillion UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Nickerson | 1 UFO Reports | Nickerson UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Oakland | 1 UFO Reports | Oakland UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Ceresco | 1 UFO Reports | Ceresco UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Central City | 1 UFO Reports | Central City UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Valentine | 1 UFO Reports | Valentine UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Lexington | 1 UFO Reports | Lexington UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Norfolk | 1 UFO Reports | Norfolk UFO Sightings in 2020 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Nebraska
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Nebraska.