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)
Reno · NV, USA
I saw 3 lights in a diagonal line equally spaced apart. (("Spacelink" satellites??)
Henderson · NV, USA
Seen a sphere above green valley and sunset. Moving around side by side.
Reno · NV, USA
Laying down on trampoline with my friends. My friend saw a black oval in the sky. Very close to us. She told me to look and I saw it to
Boulder City · NV, USA
Was doing situps on the paved trail and saw a string of evenly spaced craft that looked like satellites.. (("Starlink" satellites??))
Reno · NV, USA
40+ craft flying in spaces formation at extermly high altitude (("Starlink" satellites??))
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Red glowing ball shaped light. Was looking at it move slowly north. Only red light was seen glowing.slowly light dies out. Dissapears.
Amargosa Valley · NV, USA
Two flat dark gray metallic discs hovering in Armagosa valley NV.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Single flashing light flew across sky, light then went out and disappeared. Reappeared a second later and moves upwards then turned lef
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Shaped like a triangle, transparent like a light cloud camouflaged with the background but clear shape that could be seen through. Larg
Las Vegas · NV, USA
huge saucer with a lot of lights seen spreading a bright green haze.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Helicopter searching the sky for something.
Sparks/Sun Valley · NV, USA
Walking home when witnessed bright blue bursts of light that filled the whole sky just over mountain range on back side of Sun Valley.
Las vegas · NV, USA
Saw 1 white shaped tic tac craft fly over airplane.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Three dots of lights turned into over 40 dots of lights, then, into a formation of a bird silhouette flapping its wings.
North Las Vegas · NV, USA
4 Bright Sphere like objects in North Las Vegas
Alamo · NV, USA
very bright, white, light, sparatic movement horizontal to the horizon and then went vertical till it disappeared
Reno · NV, USA
string of lights evenly spaced moving across sky. ((NUFORC Note: Starlink satellites? PD))
Las Vegas · NV, USA
Liquid grey craft at the cloud line then dissapears.
Reno · NV, USA
I could see a strange arc of lights in a half oval formation over the horizon of downtown Reno. I had a great view of all of downtown R
Reno · NV, USA
Shiny light in the sky above Reno.Radiating green, red, and white lights.moving slowly above the western sky.
Henderson · NV, USA
Very large silver flying aircraft teardrop in shape appeared overhead while pulling into driveway at approximately 6:40p.
Henderson · NV, USA
At around 2130 on 11/05 I noticed bright lights in the sky that did not resemble any stars I’ve seen.
WELLS · NV, USA
in earlyam dark skys saw what first thought was planes but ended up to be fourty+ following each other
Las Vegas · NV, USA
About 9 or 10 lit up triangle shapes flew south over Vegas. ((NUFORC Note: Cluster of "Starlink" satellites. PD))
Lake Las Vegas · NV, USA
3 bright lights in the sky just beyond lake. At one point a red fuzzy laser type light connect all 3 lights briefly in a lightning bolt