UFO Sightings in Nevada
1,591 UFO sightings reported in Nevada since 1947, peaking in 2015 (111 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 1,591
- Span
- 1947–2022
- Peak year
- 2015 (111 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1947–2022 · peak 2015 (111 reports)
Top cities in Nevada
Las Vegas
1964–2022 · peak 2012 (45 reports)
Reno
1964–2022 · peak 2015 (14 reports)
Henderson
1996–2020 · peak 2015 (9 reports)
North Las Vegas
1983–2021 · peak 2020 (8 reports)
Sparks
1992–2022 · peak 2004 (4 reports)
Carson City
1994–2021 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
Pahrump
1987–2021 · peak 2004 (3 reports)
Elko
1980–2018 · peak 2008 (4 reports)
Rachel
1997–2019 · peak 1998 (2 reports)
Laughlin
1995–2020 · peak 1999 (4 reports)
Fallon
1959–2020 · peak 2015 (2 reports)
Gardnerville
1992–2021 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Mesquite
2004–2020 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Winnemucca
1995–2020 · peak 2012 (2 reports)
Boulder City
1998–2020 · peak 2019 (2 reports)
Fernley
1995–2021 · peak 2016 (2 reports)
Spring Creek
1999–2018 · peak 2008 (2 reports)
Beatty
1973–2017 · peak 1973 (1 reports)
Minden
1983–2021 · peak 1983 (1 reports)
Yerington
1999–2017 · peak 2017 (2 reports)
Alamo · NV, USA
4 bright lights, then disappeared.
Sparks · NV, USA
Fireball-like spot traveling SE, ~3 mins, then faded to black...no sound no R or B lights. ((NUFORC Note: ISS??))((anonymous report))
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Object with lights approaching aircraft, photo taken. ((MUFON Report))
Las Vegas · NV, USA
MADAR Node 126
Las Vegas · NV, USA
I was driving West on summerlin parkway about to get off on Durango exit when I seen this green light going up in the sky.
Henderson · NV, USA
Brilliant white light, morphed to clearly defined rectangular black shape, emitted misty tail, all vanished w/ no trace.
Pyramid Lake · NV, USA
Small white dot that was stat., very high in the sky over Pyramid L. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a high-alt. balloon. Anonymous. PD))
Las Vegas · NV, USA
when out side to see the sunset and noticed 2 UFOs flying by I don't really know what it was but I kept seeing flashes apart by 5 secon
Pahrump · NV, USA
Saw a blue cloud then a Red Cloud attack it exploded and could see a cigar shape type ship.
Rachel · NV, USA
Cigar-shaped light composed of four bright round, horizontal orange lights above town of Rachel, Nevada.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
MADAR Node 126
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Oval orange orb during storm
North Las Vegas · NV, USA
Orb like UFO followed by High Speed Aircraft over Las Vegas heading NE.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Bright Orange or Red Light.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
New type of aircraft sighted over Las Vegas, NV.
Reno · NV, USA
I was in my back yard and I looked up in the sky. About 30,000 feet I saw two spheres flying in formati
Reno · NV, USA
I saw a Spherical, metallic object hovering one or two thousand feet up in Reno, NV.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Saturday night June 9th approximately 9:08 pm. I was sitting in my truck in front of my boys mom house while they went in to feed the d
Jackpot · NV, USA
Silver and black craft that showed up for one frame of a video - silent. ((NUFORC Note: Bird or insect in flight?? PD))
Henderson · NV, USA
Jellyfish shaped objects that are holographic disappear out of thin air.
Henderson · NV, USA
4 brilliant lights were at first in a diamond formation.the crafts were too large and bright to be helicopters or other. They were over
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Big diamond hovering above Nellas AIr Force Base. ((MUFON report))
Reno · NV, USA
Four glowing cirlces low in the sky in south Reno.
Reno · NV, USA
V shaped lights swirl and disappear.
Sparks · NV, USA
At around 2110 a friend and I were trying to set up a telescope to see if we vould look at what we figured must be Jupiter in the north