State Report
UFO Sightings in Nevada
2,615 sightings on record from 1947 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
2,615
Share of US total
1.22%
Peak year
2012
162 reports
Top shape
Light
498 reports
Years active
76
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-24 | Las Vegas | star | 3 hours | Keeps wiggling around in a tight little area and does not leave the same location next to the moon |
| 2023-11-04 | Whitney | circle | 4 min | So I would first look like two groups of balloons, four and five, very close together. Within seconds they drifted apart... |
| 2023-10-26 | Laughlin | changing | 5 minutes | Erratically moving in all directions but not really moving? Seemed like it playing, varied blue color and shape. I'm not... |
| 2023-10-19 | Mesquite | disk | 10 seconds | Circular white light rising fast from the desert straight up into the sky out of sight. |
| 2023-10-19 | Las Vegas (in flight) | star | Approximately one hour. | While operating an airline flight at 37,000’ both pilots witnessed three lights at very high altitude moving in random... |
| 2023-10-04 | Las Vegas | circle | Over 1 hour | It was hovering with flashing lights goin from the left to the right repeatedly |
| 2023-09-29 | Enterprise | teardrop | 20 seconds | UFO hovering above Enterprise motionless |
| 2023-09-22 | North las vegas | changing | 10 mins | My first daytime sighting but can locate them and have multiple times in the night. |
| 2023-09-15 | Las Vegas | orb | approximately 15 seconds | A distant orb makes several different changes of direction, and then speeds off. |
| 2023-09-12 | Las Vegas | teardrop | Seconds | Teal colored teardrop shape bright light ascending upward in sky |
| 2023-09-05 | Winnemucca | orb | 5 minutes | Extremely bright object in the sky. |
| 2023-08-30 | Spanish Springs | disk | 1.5 minutes | Highly reflective silver disc flying low over Spanish springs, no visible wings or propeller |
| 2023-08-26 | Reno | changing | About 6 seconds | A V shape of 5 white orbs going south west, changed from a white triangle to a white diamond shape before disappearing |
| 2023-08-22 | Las Vegas | light | 2 minutes | bright erratically flashing object that left a strange line in the sky with one of its flashes |
| 2023-08-22 | Las Vegas | triangle | 2.5 hours | Ring camera captured 2.5 hour video of bright triangle moving across the sky |
| 2023-08-22 | Las Vegas | cylinder | 20 sec. | Going very fast. |
| 2023-08-18 | Las Vegas | cube | Few seconds | Square shaped light that moved across sky |
| 2023-08-12 | Las Vegas | sphere | 2 - 3 seconds | Bright Orb observed at Bill Briare Park |
| 2023-08-08 | Reno | circle | 3-5 minutes | Flash of light, then a light moving very erratic |
| 2023-08-07 | Pahrump | rectangle | — | Many non twinkling white lights no tail no engine sound then lights out. |