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Omaha, Nebraska UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 182 UFO sighting reports in Omaha, Nebraska to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (30 reports, 16.48% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (24 reports, 13.19% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (29 reports, 15.93% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (26 reports, 14.29% of total).
- 11/03/12 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 1.10% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (92 reports, 50.55% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Omaha, Nebraska
These Omaha, 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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Hummel Park UFO experience. Sera (22) avg person All I can really remember when I looked at it there were lights. Blinking red.
Then Yellow White lights that didn’t blink. Almost like a normal airplane. Then it wasn’t moving.
Still. At first it looked small but at the same time looked huge bigger than all the trees put together. We heard a scream then a bush of wind blew sand on my face after I had said something.
Very weird. Then we were just driving.
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V formation of lights moving rapidly from the southwest and then turning southeast towards Offutt AFB. Around 6:30am CT today 2/5/2024, I was right outside my front door on the walkway. I was outside just to see what the weather was like at that time and was walking back to the front door when I saw a v formation of lights.
The lights came into view suddenly just past the southwest corner of my house. There were 5 lights in an unequal formation. The left side of the formation had one light, then one light at the center point or tip of the v, and the right side of the v had the other 3 lights.
The lights were about as bright as a star you would see in the night sky. The lights did not blink or flash at all, they remained solid. The formation moved very rapidly, slightly faster than a low flying jet, but made no sound.
The formation moved across the sky from approximately the south, southwest and then turning slightly to the southeast before going out of view. The direction the object turned towards was in the direction of Offutt AFB. When the object turned to the right, all of the lights turned with it, as though they were lights on a wing.
I had thought at first that the formation was low flying plane from Offutt, as we do occasionally get low flying planes similar to the WC-135R in shape and size. However, this did not make any noise and disappeared from view before it reached the horizon. Typically, when a plane from Offutt, or any other plane, flies overhead I can continue to watch it until it reaches the horizon.
The way the formation appeared and disappeared, was similar to how the international space station is visible when it is able to be viewed in my area. Only showing briefly, for a few seconds to a minute, then disappearing never making it to the horizon. However, the international space station does not turn and does not move as fast as a low flying plane in the sky.
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Flying to the East at 39,000 saw 6 UFO's at diff speeds, altitudes (btn 50, and 80 thousand feet) for ~ 1 hr We’re flying a challenger 601 from Van Nuys, California to Teterboro New Jersey we were flight level 390 and quickly moved to flight level 410. We saw six UFOs at different times and together at different altitudes different spacing, different speeds, and they were just white lights no identifiable markings, and the distance was indeterminable but somewhere between 50 to 100 miles ahead of us and we saw them we were approaching Omaha Nebraska, and again we saw him for about another hour. Tried recording video with a DJI action 2 camera.
Due to operator error (aiming) or Distance involved, no helpful video, only voice description.
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Intense red ball slowly passing over my yard.Very bright and fiery.At first I thought it was going to touch my tree and catch fire .
Bright red ,round object slowly moving across the sky .Fiery red with one third lights in front.The object was so intense in color that the lights looked pink.
Moved across the sky and dipped down a little then kept traveling west,at a slow speed. No sound,no trails,just gliding.Just one object seen.
So,so bright red.
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I saw a black pill like object moving across the sky from the south going north while looking to the west. Looking to the west, this object moved from south to north at a constant pace. Too fast for a plane/drone, too high for a bird and did not leave a contrail.
Object was a black pill shape and did not have any lights flashing/strobeing and did not reflect any sunlight. At first I heard the sound of a plane in the distance but did not see any planes anywhere until I noticed what I thought was a black bird soaring high in the sky then realized it wasn't a bird or a plane. Object was making a humming sound the entire time of travel.
I used to live by Offut AFB and have seen some weird lights and vehicles in the sky as well as odd sounds. Never seen anything like this. This Object was definitely not a b52 at cruising altitude or a plane.
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MADAR Node 132 .
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We saw 3 glowing oval objects in the sky last night. Jerry and I both saw 3 orb like objects in the sky last night. They were glowing red/orange bright light.
They were very low. About 500-800 ft in the sky. They were in a straight line.
Then they started moving slowly towards the south. As they moved forward one paused in front of our house and then went west and disappeared. The other two continued south slowly and paused in our side yard airspace then slowly dimmed and disappeared.
I don’t know how to explain what they could have been. The dogs woke us up around 12:45am. It went on until about 12:59 am.
It was amazing. One of the orbs sat right outside our balcony and just dissolved away. They were very large and glowing.
I could hear a faint humming sound.
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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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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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Witnessed cigar shaped object while plane spotting in my front yard.
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Moving star like Line formation I was leaving the house, looking up at the sky like I always do, and spotted a fine point (star) however this one was moving and behind it another, and another. They were all moving in a perfect line and spaced between one another. No commercial lights.
Two of the 16, actually shined an intense, becoming more brighter than the rest that has past by. It doesn’t end there, I went to my brothers place, about 5 miles away and we both looked up and at one point didn’t see anything and then 2 free floating lights flying, however not in formation like before at my house.
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10-15 even spaced light balls moving east to west 10-15 even spaced lights moving across sky east to west then vanished once they all hit the same Spot in the sky.
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In evening of 03/06/2020 Omaha Nebraska, Dundee neighborhood @ 8:15 I was out in my backyard to pickup chairs that had blown down during the day. We had just returned from dinner. I looked up in the sky as it was a very clear crisp night.
At this time I noticed one non blinking light moving across the sky. As I followed the light across moving West to East I noticed another duplicate light spaced in line behind it, then another and another. I called my wife out to witness the lights, she commented it's probably drones and went inside after viewing 4 of the lights in a row.
For ten minutes the string of lights, which must have been about 20 to 30 total moved across the sky from West to NorthEast. The lights were non blinking white lights spaced proportionally with no sound. The entire string was proportional except for one group if two light in the middle of the string that were much closer to each other.
As the lights crossed from West to NorthEast above my back yard, I could see and hear large flocks of geese flying underneath the lights. The light were much higher than the geese. Additionally in the North East a helicopter was flying South to North above downtown of Omaha it crossed under the path of lights.
The lights were same size as stars which were starting to appearing as the evening got darker. Unlike a plane the lights did not blink and were constant like a satellite.
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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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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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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.
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A large bright object that was low on the horizon was pulsating in a stationary position steadily changing color. On January 3rd, 2019, at approximately 22:30 to 23:00, I observed a large, stationary object low in the southeast sky. My girlfriend, a person on YouTube and I all observed it.
At first glance the object could have been mistaken for Venus but it was too large. As a process of elimination, I verified that there were no planets or major stars at that location with Google night sky and manual observations of celestial bodies. I also eliminated the possibility of aircraft easily as there were several commercial aircraft flying at different altitudes and directions.
All the aircraft were very small in comparison. The object appeared to be round but pulsed brightly in a fashion that made it look like it was flaring the light in a sort of diamond shape. The object cycled through multiple colors at a steady rate and exhibited a range of color beyond what is seen on commercial and private aircraft.
There was no sound but I can't say for sure it was silent as it seemed to be several miles away across the city. I assumed that this object had to have been seen by more people than myself due to its size, color shifting and duration that it was visible. I scanned the local news the following day and none of them mentored it.
I did find a video on YouTube of someone else that did see it, and they shot a video of it with their phone. I didn't stay out to see the object disappear but the person shooting the video did. They filmed it until it just vanished from sight.
It didn't fly away. It faded from view while never moving during the entire episode. I will attempt to upload the video or link it for you to review.
I didn't try recording it myself because my phone camera doesn't zoom out to distances that far well and the video from the other person I found does not properly show exactly how large and brilliant the object actually was. YouTube link, https://m.youtube.
com/watch?v=Wt8HH8DKlv0&t=44s.
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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.
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MADAR Node 132.
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MADAR Node 132.
Omaha, 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 | 30 reported sightings | 16.48% of all reports |
Triangle | 19 reported sightings | 10.44% of all reports |
Unknown | 17 reported sightings | 9.34% of all reports |
Circle | 16 reported sightings | 8.79% of all reports |
Sphere | 12 reported sightings | 6.59% of all reports |
Fireball | 12 reported sightings | 6.59% of all reports |
Disk | 12 reported sightings | 6.59% of all reports |
Other | 10 reported sightings | 5.49% of all reports |
Oval | 8 reported sightings | 4.40% of all reports |
Formation | 8 reported sightings | 4.40% of all reports |
Teardrop | 5 reported sightings | 2.75% of all reports |
Cigar | 5 reported sightings | 2.75% of all reports |
Rectangle | 5 reported sightings | 2.75% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 2.20% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 1.65% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 1.65% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.55% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.55% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 0.55% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 0.55% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 0.55% of all reports |
Omaha, 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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September | 24 reported sightings | 13.19% of all reports |
November | 23 reported sightings | 12.64% of all reports |
October | 20 reported sightings | 10.99% of all reports |
June | 18 reported sightings | 9.89% of all reports |
August | 17 reported sightings | 9.34% of all reports |
July | 16 reported sightings | 8.79% of all reports |
May | 14 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
April | 13 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
December | 10 reported sightings | 5.49% of all reports |
March | 8 reported sightings | 4.40% of all reports |
February | 8 reported sightings | 4.40% of all reports |
January | 6 reported sightings | 3.30% of all reports |
Omaha, 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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Tuesday | 29 reported sightings | 15.93% of all reports |
Friday | 29 reported sightings | 15.93% of all reports |
Wednesday | 27 reported sightings | 14.84% of all reports |
Sunday | 25 reported sightings | 13.74% of all reports |
Monday | 24 reported sightings | 13.19% of all reports |
Saturday | 22 reported sightings | 12.09% of all reports |
Thursday | 21 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Omaha, 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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11/03/12 | 2 reported sightings | 1.10% of all reports |
07/08/18 | 2 reported sightings | 1.10% of all reports |
02/05/24 | 2 reported sightings | 1.10% of all reports |
05/28/12 | 2 reported sightings | 1.10% of all reports |
06/22/17 | 2 reported sightings | 1.10% of all reports |
Omaha, 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 | 92 reported sightings | 50.55% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 27 reported sightings | 14.84% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 22 reported sightings | 12.09% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 16 reported sightings | 8.79% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 13 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 7 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Omaha, Nebraska
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