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Nevada UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 1,691 UFO sighting reports in Nevada to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (342 reports, 20.22% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (168 reports, 9.93% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (285 reports, 16.85% of total).
- 11/07/15 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (10 reports, 0.59% of total).
- 2015 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (114 reports, 6.74% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (646 reports, 38.20% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Nevada
These Nevada 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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Hovered in air for far too long to be falling space junk. Not a weather balloon Was leaving the area and heading west when I saw a black object floating in sky. Moving too slowly to be falling.
Did not appear to be weather balloons or bunch of balloons. There are two Air Force bases in the vicinity so we see a lot in the sky but nothing like this over civilization.
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Watched orb hover for 20 minutes I walked outside and saw an orb. I used a flight application to verify any aircraft in the area and there were none, it was also located away from normal air traffic. I used the enigma app, and it detected nothing naturally occurring.
I also used an app to see if any satellites, stars, or planets were supposed to be there, but still nothing. I recorded video, but it was very far away. I sat and watched it hover about 20 minutes until it quickly traveled downward and then vanished.
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UAP buzzed our military aircraft at the nascar fly over 3.3.24 While watching the Fox Network TV coverage of the Las Vegas motor speedway Sunday 3.
3.24 (Est .12:30pm) during the national anthem & our military aircraft fly over (Nelles Air Force base) we observed what looked to be a singular UFO that “buzzed” (flew over) in the opposite direction & at tremendous speed above the planes.
We watched it live and it was clearly visible again when reviewing the recored video back, both at regular speed as well as slow motion. It appear to look like a white line against the blue sky above the four airplanes : A-10, F-16, F-15E, F-22 ! Again , This Video was taped by our DVR and should have been caught on & by the Network Television as they broadcast the race !.
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We saw a pair of lights above the mountain line during our drive that would appear/disappear. Knowing NV State Route 375/E.T.
Highway to be an area traditionally known for UFO sightings, we were driving back to our lodgings stopping for dinner in Rachel about an hour or so after sunset that day. While it was very dark, the cloudy sky made it easy to see where the mountain line was and, in either case, we had done the drive towards Rachel in the daylight as well so we had some frame of reference. Time estimate is about 6:30pm local time.
As we kept driving back towards Crystal Springs, we would spot a pair of lights up just above the mountains that were just far enough from each other that they seemed to be separate light sources. These lights would appear and then disappear at slow/lengthy intervals (maybe several dozen seconds/a minute) without a consistent pattern. Because there were so few other drivers on the road, they were very noticeable to me in the passenger seat as well as the driver.
It's hard to say with total confidence, but it appeared as though they were moving about as exact locations were inconsistent. Sometimes they were in effectively in front of us and other times a bit more to the left/right. The stretch of the road we saw these in was essentially a straight shot, so this likely wasn't due to our moving around some static light source.
The lights themselves were quite bright and, given the cloudy skies, must have low enough to be unobstructed by cloud cover. They were both a yellow, maybe off-white color. The angle of elevation provided is a best guess - I'm admittedly really bad with visual thinking - the lights were fairly high up, but still very much in front of us.
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Strange shape in the sky that didn’t last long. Quick photos were taken. I was noticing what looked like maybe seven eagles perhaps—some kind of large bird type anyway flying around way up high.
I tried to locate them in the sky with my camera to get a better look at them when I noticed this other strange object to the left in the direction of where the birds were heading. I got what quick snapshots I could. I went out walking a little bit later when another unidentified object/being showed up right in front of me, which my camera captured.
I will submit that photo (with another taken around same time) to you afterwards. In general, I have been seeing some things that do look unusual, such as with Tahoe water and clouds. But last year at night I saw a long bright, silvery metallic-looking cylinder thing hovering over Tahoe that also could have been 100 feet high for all I know.
I played with some settings in this photo, such as decreasing photo exposure in order to darken the photo for providing more detail of what this object in the sky looked like.
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Rectangular object in the sky Rectangular pitch black object in the sky above NLV that did not move was sighted by a passenger and I. Possibly rotated because at some points it was barely visible, after coming back to full visibility in rectangle shape, It disappeared completely. The sighting when on for about 5 minutes approximately and the picture was taken when I was able to get to a red light.
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Unknown white object flying at high altitude above Las Vegas, NV Observed a white oval object, similar to the shape of a parachute as seen from below, with another object suspended below, travel in a West to East pattern over Las Vegas Nevada. Object appeared to be under its own power it did not lose altitude.
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Orange/white changing orb Throughout the last year, there has been two locations that I have seen stationary lights along US 95 in Nevada. The first one is seen primarily above the mountains along US95 and Walker Lake. There is no one spot it is seen.
It's above the ridgelines, slopes or even moving along the mountainside. Sometimes, this light will be seen over the western portion of the depot. The light sometimes pulsates and seems to be stationary, when seen.
There are no other lights on this object, such as navigation lights. There is a ammunition storage area that is run by the US DOD at the south end of the lake. The second light that is, again off US95, but south of Hawthorne near the towns of Luning and Mina, and south along the mountain to the east of the highway.
Again, its along the ridgelines and above the lake bed. This area is south of the town of Hawthorne and the expansive ammunition depot. This light is white/yellow.
Again, neither of these lights have navigation lights etc. They primarily are stationary and do not move. But, when they are seen, they are never in the same location in either of the two areas.
The lights are not consistent in where they are seen in the two areas, but they are in the area with no specific location. You may see both. You may see one and not the other.
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Keeps wiggling around in a tight little area and does not leave the same location next to the moon I thought the was the ISS . But it keeps passe with the moons path and does not leave .
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Bright green light traveling rapidly at low altitude This was just after sunset, mostly dark, while driving north on Hwy 93 approaching West Wendover from the south. I saw a brilliant green (like traffic light green) light traveling north-northwest. When I first noticed it, it had just come visible in the upper left corner of the windshield.
It appeared to be dropping down toward the ground. I leaned forward to get a better view and it either changed direction or my perspective changed. It then took off to the north-northwest at a very high rate of speed.
It was low, between the lowest layer of clouds and the next higher. I could see it behind the clouds and then clearly when it passed an opening. In only a few seconds, it disappeared at the horizon to the north.
I'm not sure where the horizon was, but being adjacent to the salt flats, I expect several miles away. My gut says meteor, but 1. it seemed to change direction, 2.
it didn't have a trail, 3. the angle of approach to the earth was very low, and 4. altitude was low.
I'm a field biologist and spend a lot of nights outside watching the sky in the desert. I am familiar with meteors, airplanes, uavs, satellites, space trash, etc.
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So I would first look like two groups of balloons, four and five, very close together. Within seconds they drifted apart & changed dire Once the objects scattered high into the upper atmosphere they then proceeded to move but changing direction, 180 degrees on an instant. Crafts almost in flight paths of air traffic coming into Vegas.
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Erratically moving in all directions but not really moving? Seemed like it playing, varied blue color and shape. I'm not used to seeing ufo's when I open the window in the master bath to let the cool air in at night.
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Circular white light rising fast from the desert straight up into the sky out of sight. Looking out the back window of the house a white circular object rose into view. 1st-second, I thought someone released a balloon that was reflecting the late day sun.
That thought was immediately dismissed, it was not drifting or wavering in the air. 2nd-second, I thought it must be a drone. That was also immediately dismissed, it was rising straight up very fast and I thought; “can a drone rise that fast”? I said to my wife; “what is that”? I got up and quickly went to the back window…it was already getting to the height of my 10ft tall patio awning.
I had to bend over to keep it in view as it rose so fast. At that point I thought; “what the heck, this is fast” and it was above the awning out of sight. I felt it sped up as it rose.
I immediately opened the sliding door and went out and scanned the skies. It was gone. Being aware of drone battery life, I stood for a long time scanning the area to be sure nothing was returning to the town area.
Nothing came into view. Here is some reference information. I am very familiar with aircraft in the sky, have built WWII model airplanes growing up, built and fired model rockets (kits and home-made designs) growing up, worked for Northrop Grumman, sky watch and own a telescope spotting scope and binoculars.
I grew up in Torrance California and saw many Vandenberg Missiles diffuse in the evening sky growing up. I dismiss everything I normally see. This “item” was baffling.
The speed in rising didn’t look normal for anything citizen owned. It went very straight…straight up. The “item” looked round but like a dime turned maybe to a 45 degree angle although the size was smaller.
It was not solid white (like a blinding bulb) but more like setting sun reflecting on something but not yellow or orange…so maybe it’s own light. It did not leave a trail (smoke). The base of the Virgin Mountains is about 10 miles away to the south (in the background) but I couldn’t pick up on any depth/distance for the “items” size, sorry.
I do believe, looking at the area now, it came from the desert out toward the base of the mountains or Virgin River basin area. As far as altitude, southbound airliners over those mountains (again dismissed) must be at 25-30k feet (guessing). The partial moon visible above my awning was higher in the sky than that.
The “item went out of view above all of that before I could get past the awning. It was all over in 10 seconds and is the first thing that’s left me baffled over the years.
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While operating an airline flight at 37,000’ both pilots witnessed three lights at very high altitude moving in random patterns. While operating a B777 from HNL-DEN at 37,000’ both the Captain and I witnessed what appeared to be stars moving at a very high altitude and distance. We were approximately 50 miles SW of Las Vegas at about 0300 local time.
The lights appeared to be SE of our position. All three lights were observed to be moving independently in some type of pattern. The lights were the approximate size and brightness of the stars in the background and were steady with no flashing that we typically observe on aircraft.
They would each move relatively quickly in one direction for about one minute and then reverse course and move in another direction. We observed this phenomenon for about one hour. We questioned Los Angeles Center about high altitude military activity but they were not aware of any.
After about one hour two of the lights continued northbound until they were out of sight. The third light remained for about 20 more minutes before heading southwest bound and disappearing. Over the course of the hour we travelled approximately 500 nautical miles but the lights never appeared to get any closer to us.
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It was hovering with flashing lights goin from the left to the right repeatedly Sometimes the sparkly lights would slow down the they would go fast.
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UFO hovering above Enterprise motionless I began to take pictures and a video all the photos are gone? The video shows nothing. There was an aircraft floating motionless, it looked like a disc I guess but almost like a jet floating in the air. I pulled over on Russell ave heading towards Durago in Spring Valley Las Vegas.
It was there so long I pulled over and started taking pictures. It like vanished, i dont know if it turned and moved away but it looked like it got smaller and vanished. I called the hotline 2 times and it sounded like someone hung up both times.
Somebody had to of seen what I saw. Hopefully this helps, I’ll be honest Im not a ufo/alien guy. I mean in recent times of course things have been released but until now I kinda brushed it off.
Im telling the truth I saw something really strange floating there. Also a southwest plane flew by relatively close to that area heading north. Maybe the pilot or plane radar picked up something.
Im not lying about what I saw and Id take a polygraph test. It looked silver? I didnt see any lights. It almost looked as if it backed away and vanished.
So weird. There is nothing in the video? I looked down to make sure It was there and it wasnt. The pictures were never saved in my phone? Im freaked out by the situation.
Where did the pictures go? Sorry I didnt give more personal information Im just kinda weirded out by the entire situation but will 100% tell you what I saw.
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My first daytime sighting but can locate them and have multiple times in the night. The craft was changing shapes between a dark/black sphere, cube and pyramid or diamond shape. It had a distorted field around it that you could see because of the spectrum of light around it bent by the sun.
It would move in wave motion not truly straight. No noise and all air traffic seemed to stop before and during the event. After the event you could hear jets from Nellis Airforce base.
Recorded video of the event. I have a longer video but your system says the file is too big.
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A distant orb makes several different changes of direction, and then speeds off. It was approximately 5:17 a.m.
on 9/15/2023 when I was outside my house taking my morning stretch. As I leaned back and looked into the sky, I saw a distant light/orb moving across the sky (it was still quite dark out). At first I dismissed it as the ISS drifting along its orbit, but then the orb started to make turns and moves.
I dashed inside and grabbed my phone and was able to take one video of the orb (I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max). The uncut video is about 40 seconds long, but the orb can only be seen in the first 15 or so seconds. As you can see from the video, the orb really starts to make some moves at around the :03 second mark, and then it does several turns before zooming off and vanishing.
I have attached the uncut original iPhone clip. I also retained a professional video editor to enhance and cleaned up. I attach two of those clips provided by the video editor.
The enhanced version really shows the details of the moves the orb makes. This is not a hoax and I provide the raw, untouched video.
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Teal colored teardrop shape bright light ascending upward in sky Bright teardrop shape object rising in the sky very swiftly that was teal color and moving very quickly.
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Extremely bright object in the sky. Got a zoomed in photo of a bright object before it just vanished. When viewed with a spotting scope it appeared to be a sphere with a ring through the center.
imagine the Death star from star wars.
Nevada 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 | 342 reported sightings | 20.22% of all reports |
Circle | 163 reported sightings | 9.64% of all reports |
Other | 142 reported sightings | 8.40% of all reports |
Unknown | 133 reported sightings | 7.87% of all reports |
Triangle | 114 reported sightings | 6.74% of all reports |
Sphere | 112 reported sightings | 6.62% of all reports |
Oval | 93 reported sightings | 5.50% of all reports |
Disk | 88 reported sightings | 5.20% of all reports |
Fireball | 85 reported sightings | 5.03% of all reports |
Formation | 61 reported sightings | 3.61% of all reports |
Changing | 55 reported sightings | 3.25% of all reports |
Cigar | 36 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Rectangle | 33 reported sightings | 1.95% of all reports |
Flash | 30 reported sightings | 1.77% of all reports |
Cylinder | 29 reported sightings | 1.71% of all reports |
Teardrop | 26 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Chevron | 23 reported sightings | 1.36% of all reports |
Diamond | 17 reported sightings | 1.01% of all reports |
Egg | 11 reported sightings | 0.65% of all reports |
Orb | 10 reported sightings | 0.59% of all reports |
Cone | 8 reported sightings | 0.47% of all reports |
Cross | 6 reported sightings | 0.35% of all reports |
Star | 4 reported sightings | 0.24% of all reports |
Cube | 2 reported sightings | 0.12% of all reports |
Nevada 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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June | 168 reported sightings | 9.93% of all reports |
July | 165 reported sightings | 9.76% of all reports |
September | 165 reported sightings | 9.76% of all reports |
August | 162 reported sightings | 9.58% of all reports |
October | 159 reported sightings | 9.40% of all reports |
April | 140 reported sightings | 8.28% of all reports |
May | 128 reported sightings | 7.57% of all reports |
December | 128 reported sightings | 7.57% of all reports |
November | 117 reported sightings | 6.92% of all reports |
March | 116 reported sightings | 6.86% of all reports |
February | 110 reported sightings | 6.51% of all reports |
January | 108 reported sightings | 6.39% of all reports |
Nevada 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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Saturday | 285 reported sightings | 16.85% of all reports |
Wednesday | 247 reported sightings | 14.61% of all reports |
Friday | 243 reported sightings | 14.37% of all reports |
Sunday | 241 reported sightings | 14.25% of all reports |
Thursday | 227 reported sightings | 13.42% of all reports |
Tuesday | 226 reported sightings | 13.36% of all reports |
Monday | 197 reported sightings | 11.65% of all reports |
Nevada 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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11/07/15 | 10 reported sightings | 0.59% of all reports |
07/27/16 | 9 reported sightings | 0.53% of all reports |
09/14/11 | 7 reported sightings | 0.41% of all reports |
07/04/15 | 5 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
12/22/15 | 5 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
Nevada 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 | 646 reported sightings | 38.20% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 357 reported sightings | 21.11% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 256 reported sightings | 15.14% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 158 reported sightings | 9.34% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 131 reported sightings | 7.75% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 118 reported sightings | 6.98% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Nevada
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Nevada.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Nevada
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Nevada