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Lincoln, Nebraska UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 110 UFO sighting reports in Lincoln, Nebraska to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (37 reports, 33.64% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (20 reports, 18.18% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (20 reports, 18.18% of total).
- 2013 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (10 reports, 9.09% of total).
- 05/02/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 1.82% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (65 reports, 59.09% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Lincoln, Nebraska
These Lincoln, Nebraska UFO reports are 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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Silver object flying in a westward direction off in a distace. Silver object. Shape of a grain of rice.
South Lincoln sky. Moving in a westward direction. It was obvious it was not a plane.
Driving so I took a couple photos then had to turn towards work. A little surprised later when I zoomed in. 4 oval shaped objects.
2 in front of me and 2 off to the west.
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Was the coolest technology I’ve ever seen it was translucent & reflected the smoke above it from fireworks on the bttm and the stars wow! It had been a hour or so since my family and I stopped lighting fireworks. I was sitting in my rocking fold up chair in the driveway. I was rocking back and forth when I noticed something above me maybe 500 feet up comeing from the southeast heading northwest.
It was moving really slow maybe 10 to 15mph. At first I thought it was smoke from a firework but as I kept watching it a boomerang shape was appearing. It was translucent but I could see the outline of the boomerang craft from the way the lighting and smoke in the sky were reflecting off of it.
Then as it was passing over me heading away I could tell the smoke from fireworks in the area were above it and reflecting on the bottom of it and I could see a occasional star also on the bottom of the craft! It was silent no noise almost looked like water it was the strangest thing I ever seen but the coolest technology ever! I don’t know what made me look up there could of been a residence sound or slight hum to it? Not sure it just appeared so fast I couldn’t take my eye off ot it! As it got farther away the area was getting brighter in the direction it was heading which was northwest, the boomerang shape started to fade and it just looked like a large puff of smoke or a cloud moving away about 10 to 15mph or so “so cool” and confusing at the same time. I was not drinking or under the influence I don’t drink just saying cuz it’s the 3rd of July and we were celebrating the 4th. As my mind was trying to process all this I just kept reapeating in my head “we have the technology” “we have the ttechnology” almost like it was a way to calm me because my mind was going in overload looking at this craft I couldn’t make since of it then all of sudden it was like that thought ( “we have the technology”) was being broadcast or put in my thoughts somehow! Still in shock!!! “WOW!!! (Real sighting: is it ours or theirs?).
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Following severe weather storms I was looking at the clouds and saw approx. 6 or 7 different lights in the sky behaving strangely. I was looking at clouds around 9:15pm following some severe weather storms and noticed high above the clouds a light like that of a plane.
So I started watching it and noticed several other lights in the same area. I thought that was strange because you don’t normally see that many planes flying in the same area at the same time and going different directions. I witnesses about 6-7 different lights all separate from each other but in the same area of the sky behaving strangely.
3 of them I witnessed fall straight down like a falling star at a high speed. 2 I saw increase speed and change direction quickly. And a couple of them just moved across the area slowly like a plane would.
On 1 of them I saw red and green lights so I thought that might have been plane lights on the wings. But what’s weird is what explains the activity of the other lights in the area? The lights were small like that of a plane in the night sky. They were moving in and out of clouds so i can’t be sure if some of the lights were the same ones that I was seeing again or different ones.
Again I thought it was strange that so many aircraft were in the same area at the same time doing different things. Maybe you can tell me if there was militant activity in the area this night or a plane being escorted by other aircraft or something that can’t be explained. The whole incident lasted about 5-7 minutes maybe and then the clouds were covering a lot of the night sky and I lost them.
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Watched it for over an hour it did not move much. Watched for over an hour with naked eye and a basic telescope figured reflection from setting sun. It dimmed out after sun went down a flashing light on bottom when dark then lost it.
Maybe an Army balloon when I looked it up. It was south of SAC. Offit Air Force Base or a UAP Thanks.
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Up to 3 lights in the sky, every morning at 4am, 3 locations, 200 miles apart. Fade in, fade out. Sometimes overlaying each other.
It started in early December. Stuart, Iowa at 4am. I noticed 3 lights that looked like stars.
They would move slowly one direction to another, dimming and brightening in sequence, going different directions, usually horizontal, but sometimes doing strange S maneuvers. Sometimes it's one, or two, up to three. I drive trucks for work on the same route, so I saw them every morning.
After January 1, my route changed. I saw these things in the exact same spot, 200 miles west in York, Nebraska. Then at my home in Lincoln, Nebraska.
I checked flight radar and satellite trackers to find nothing. Given the distance and angle, they have to be out of our atmosphere. But what would maneuver like this?? I found a video matelast month, where two jetliners reported exactly the same thing to ATC.
The objects were high above the planes, which adds to my conclusion. The video even played the ATC controller questioning someone above her that also showed nothing on radar. As of this morning, it's been at least two months of this.
I took some night mode shots with my phone, but they're only 3-5 second shutter. I brought out my big camera and set to a 10 second shutter and managed to capture two of them in one shot. It's driving me legitimately crazy seeing them every single night with no explanation.
My coworkers have also witnessed them.
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Boyfriend and I saw 3 tear shaped lights. My boyfriend and I saw 3 tear-shaped lights. we had stayed up late watching movies.
As we went to smoke a cigarette, he looked at the sky horrified and ran up the street, I followed him trying to catch up to ask what was wrong, there was a massive orb very opaque, and as soon as I saw it too it vanished. we started to question if we should've seen this or not and got paranoid. he looked up again the same time I did to our fantasy and horror there were 2 tear-like lights, one looked as if it was above the other but at a great distance.
we saw them zip through the clouds but never saw them come out.
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Watched 20 or more bright star like objects shapeshift, zig zag while looked at was night fishing. Saw them all night and many since Watched 20 or more bright star like objects through the whole night display these behaviors. While gazing the stars we would notice one always moving no matter the direction of sky or an airplaine could be passing by wouldnt change its behavior.
Was out late night fishing planning to be up late and ended up not sleeping because of the awe of seeing so many of these. Saw them all night and many since have some decent video on my YouTube openmindclearskies if ud like to see.
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The craft flew over, without sound, made a turn and disappeared into the clouds. The craft was dark gray with 3 round opaque lights on the bottom. One forward light and a light on each wing.
It flew over the General Dynamics building and turned above my hotel. And then it faded into the clouds. No sound at all.
I had time enough to observe it, but it was gone before I could video it. I wasn’t scared by it because I remembered that the US is working on a new aircraft but this was certainly different.
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Multicolor object that seemed to change colors green red blue i have video of it a metal ball that changed colors.
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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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23 lights in the early morning sky today At approximately 5:00 am on 3-3-20, I saw 5 lights in the eastern sky which appeared very close together on a diagonal slightly from north (lower light) to south (upper light). As I watched them they were clearly moving downward at an angle (south to north). I continued to watch this area for a couple more minutes and counted a total of 23 lights, spread out following the same path at what appeared the same speed.
This went on for approximately 3 minutes and then they were gone, too low to be seen. These lights were not moving fast enough to be “shooting stars” nor satellites as I have seen satellites and the ISS moving across the sky. But, they were indeed moving and were not blinking like planes would either.
I don’t know what they were and I can’t find anything online about “objects falling from the sky.”.
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20-30 Star-like lights moving in union from NWest to East Last night my two roommates and I watched 20+ lights that looked just like the stars in the skies but were moving in a straight line in unison, evenly spaced out from N.West to the East. All seemed to start to just fade out into the black sky as if they were moving up away from earth.
No trail, no sounds. The only sounds we could hear was cars in the distance. Still trying to talk to fellow Lincoln people about seeing it.
We live right by the airport and they were not aircrafts from the airport.(No Flashing Lights)(was not "SpaceX StarlinK").
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Possible Abduction I was working in my home office when I saw a multicolored bright light out my window, when i looked at the light it was maybe 300 yards away but as i looked at it it got brighter and then it all of a sudden stopped i looked at the time on my watch, it was 7:18 and my top of my hand had dots arranged in a perfect circle with one in the middle on it. but i don't remember it being there.
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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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Was on way to test for probation at 625 am. As I headed down my normal route on state fair drive notice what looked like a plane with no tail shoot across sun rise. As I headed west down road noticed it was closer then I realized it stopped and was floating about 200 feet above me and was a black v shape craft with 5 lights.
It stayed in one spot at I watched it. No way this was a drone or plane.
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Looked like a dark bird floating still. Started moving lower. Slowed down passed over the street it seemed.
Dark diamond like. Would rotate or spin in its path moving up in a straight line. When on its side it was shiny from the sun.
When flat it was shiny blackish. Then sped into the clouds and went up. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Standing outside my mum's house and saw two very bright orbs dancing around the brightest light body in the south sky. They remained very bright and stilled before disappearing into the night sky. I almost mistook it for Orion's belt then quickly realized it was the incorrect sky location for that ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Three bright blue flashes of light filled the entire sky, but no one but me and the witnesses said they knew anything about it. Three bright blue flashes of light. I was pulling into the driveway of my neighbor's house at exactly 5:00 with my sister and mother when this happened.
The flashes filled the entire sky. They were beyond the neighbor's house, maybe on the road? I can't remember if there was sound. I was in my car.
I can't remember. We thought maybe an electrical box had blown on the road behind their house, but no lights flickered or anything. No power went out.
We went into our neighbor's house (as we did every morning back then), and they were sitting in their living room. We asked if they had seen it. They said no.
I remember I was so shocked. The lights literally filled the entire sky. The shade of blue was the stereotypical electric-shade, that bright blue.
I got to school later that day, and I asked everyone. Seriously everyone in my classes if they had been awake that morning at 5. Whoever said they did, I asked if they had seen the lights, or if their power had gone out.
They all said no.
Lincoln, Nebraska UFO Sightings 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 | 37 reported sightings | 33.64% of all reports |
Circle | 11 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Other | 10 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Unknown | 7 reported sightings | 6.36% of all reports |
Changing | 6 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
Sphere | 6 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
Triangle | 5 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Fireball | 4 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
Oval | 4 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 2.73% of all reports |
Flash | 3 reported sightings | 2.73% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 0.91% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.91% of all reports |
Lincoln, Nebraska UFO Sightings 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 | 20 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
November | 13 reported sightings | 11.82% of all reports |
June | 12 reported sightings | 10.91% of all reports |
September | 11 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
August | 9 reported sightings | 8.18% of all reports |
March | 9 reported sightings | 8.18% of all reports |
May | 9 reported sightings | 8.18% of all reports |
December | 6 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
January | 6 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
October | 6 reported sightings | 5.45% of all reports |
February | 5 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
April | 4 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
Lincoln, Nebraska UFO Sightings 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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Friday | 20 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Monday | 18 reported sightings | 16.36% of all reports |
Saturday | 16 reported sightings | 14.55% of all reports |
Tuesday | 15 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Thursday | 14 reported sightings | 12.73% of all reports |
Wednesday | 14 reported sightings | 12.73% of all reports |
Sunday | 13 reported sightings | 11.82% of all reports |
Lincoln, Nebraska UFO Sightings 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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05/02/20 | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
07/04/11 | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
02/11/23 | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
07/04/13 | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
03/31/06 | 2 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Lincoln, Nebraska UFO Sightings 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 | 65 reported sightings | 59.09% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 16 reported sightings | 14.55% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 13 reported sightings | 11.82% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 9 reported sightings | 8.18% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 4 reported sightings | 3.64% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 3 reported sightings | 2.73% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Lincoln, Nebraska
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