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)
Ely (60 Miles south of · US Highway 93), NV, USA
a triangular craft app 300 ft wide moved in an easterly direction very slowly app 200 ft off the ground with no lights on itat abo
Amargosa Valley · NV, USA
AUTHOR'S SUMMARY: Friend and I witnessed "flare like objects"hovered more than 10 minutes per.Obj's #ing above 20. Strange person(s)
Dayton · NV, USA
Made Eye Contact....
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Man and family witness 5 bright, whit lights oriented in single file pass overhead slowly from E to W. Very strange.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Man driving S on Hwy. 215 East sees "huge falling star" descend out of night sky. Strange, distinctly blue color.
Moundhouse · NV, USA
I may be the only human alive that remembers seeing the inside!
Henderson · NV, USA
Man & wife witness odd obj. w/ red and orange flashing lights fly very low over their house from the SE. Reversed direction, flew off.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
UFO investigator and husband witness a very bright light in W sky. Suddenly develops greenish-blue tail, accelerates up at 45 deg..
Reno · NV, USA
No summary available.
Las Vegas (western; I-40 · MM 264), NV, USA
Saw thick blue beam of light come down out of the sky accross a field and then back up again.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Woman repts. two stationary, "colorful," lights to W & NW of her position. (Description not inconsistent w/ twinkling stars.)
Carson City · NV, USA
Woman calls after dramatic sighting of "a red streak of light, w/ blue in middle" moving SE to NW. Width "as thick as my thumb!"
North Las Vegas · NV, USA
Young woman goes outside, see group of teenage girls looking as sky. Large cigar-ship w/ bright lights hovering in sky. Other rpts.
Tonopah (10 east bound m.m. 89) · NV, USA
chevron shaped dark object with flourescent lites
Pahrump · NV, USA
Time 9:00 a.m. went outside to pump water up from well. I heard an airforce jet,so I looked up. At about 1:00 oclock high, the jet wa
Pahrump · NV, USA
9;30a.m. six starlike objects following an airforce jet spotted in the northern sky. 11;30a.m. approximately 145 starlike objects sig
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Man, wife, son witness tiny, milk-white sphere hovering in cloudless sky. Streaks off to NW. 15 min. later see silver disc overhead.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Man repts. bright, multi-colored obj. in NW night sky. Disappeared while he was in house.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
garbage can shaped object
Reno · NV, USA
Man, wife, 3 relatives witness "rounded, saucer-shape" obj. overhead. Flashing white & colored lights. Moved like "bouncing ball."
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Young woman witnesses "neon green & yellow" object zigzagging overhead. Dog very agitated, would not leave house.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
three bright light's, no sound, about a foot ball field away
Reno · NV, USA
dull orange group of craft maneuvering and rotating arround each other in the sky over reno
Laughlin · NV, USA
Small red light, sat in levitation for several seconds, when all viewers focused on light, it vanished.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Large hovering invisible craft houvering in mid air at least triangle 300 yards.