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Kansas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 1,185 UFO sighting reports in Kansas to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (272 reports, 22.95% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (133 reports, 11.22% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (205 reports, 17.30% of total).
- 12/01/01 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (9 reports, 0.76% of total).
- 2020 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (73 reports, 6.16% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (579 reports, 48.86% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Kansas
These Kansas 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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3 dim stars in the shape of a triangle rotating slowly We saw 3 dim white light star looking dots that made 3 points onto a triangle. The space between the lights was the same distance. All rotated slowly clockwise together as if they were one object.
Then all 3 lights stopped, the top light stayed as the bottom 2 lights started to move farther apart, one going left, the other right. Then lost track of them. They were no brighter than the other stats in the sky and all the same size as the stars in the sky too.
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Big bright glowing orb It was a really big orb like object with a glowing light around it moved back and forth slowly from side to side for a few minutes almost like it was mimicking my movements as I was trying to get a look at it and process what I was actually seeing and then it just disappeared like it was sucked into a hole it didn’t dart off or fly away.
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Flashing light object floating around irregularly in the sky. It hovers, and maeuvers in ways planes can’t. I saw what I thought was a shooting star, but quickly realized it was something else when it flew back up into the sky after falling toward the ground.
The next is flickering bright light and can move up, down, side to side. Our flight radar app shows no air craft in the skies. The object has been flying around in the same spot about 30 minutes.
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Coworker and I were taking samples and observed a stalled craft that stayed in the same position for at least 12 minutes. A coworker and I witnessed an object stalled in the sky for at least 12 minutes. Absolutely no noise and no movement until it finally just started to move away slowly, then shot off into the night sky.
It went west, not upwards.
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Moved west then north and slightly south no sound I was painting a piece of furniture outside lasted about 7 minutes Saw it for about 7 minutes was out painting a bench had sparrows flying over me I have our property license with national wildlife as a wildlife bird habitat white circle caught my eye due to its weird movement no sound.
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Report from airline pilot.
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I’ve seen it before but never recorded it. Pulsing orb with “solar flares” coming from it. Hovers for 15-20 mins then disappears.
The summary is pretty much it. I sometimes can’t sleep so I will look out my window and will sometimes see this object, sometimes I see plans coming and going from the airport nearby. This object struck me as different because it doesn’t move like a plane, it just hovers.
It always pulses white, blue, and pink light with what looks like solar flares coming from the main body in those same colors. Sometimes it will disappear and reappear within the same second in a different area of the sky and will hover there for a while before disappearing altogether. I can’t tell if it is hovering high above Eastern Lawrence or if it is closer to Kansas City.
It doesn’t behave like anything I know. My husband is a retired Army pilot and he says it freaks him out.
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This was the earliest I've seen one out. Sun was still setting. It was before 5:30,only star out was Venus or mercury.
So idk what's happening in my small town, since the end up September. I've seen anything like this before. So ever single night orbs every I mean left going all different directions all different sizes and heights.
They only come out very early like 545 to about 7 PM. After that they hardly show themselves. I go outside look up in just seconds I see them.
They legit post as Stars. Your see a Star as you look for more then the a star you just looked at, starts flying threw the night sky. Damn military planes.
ars flying over every day and night. How do I know cuz flew next each other and right at each other. I thought they were gonna crash at times no joke.
Now theses a huge UFO thats.flown right over my house 3 times seen it 4 times. This is no orb.
It's huge the speed of it I can only compare it moving a Lazer it's that fast. No sound either nothing. This thing was low too.
Triangle/dimoamd shape.you could only see the outline of the shape of the craft it's self. 6 to 9 very dim Green lights made the outline.
Last night the lights were circling the Craft it's self as it flew over us. we've seen Star Link fly over our town 5 times in last 2 months. I think that's very weird giving that I've only seen that once before 2 years ago.
So yea I need a documentary crew out here lol I can't get any of this on my phone camera.
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3 stationary larger lights in triangle shape with 5 smaller lights on the bottom It was very foggy when my husband went outside to let our cat out. He saw the lights shaped like a triangle at a 60° angle. Three larger lights seemed to form the triangle with 4 or 5 smaller lights in between the two larger bottom lights.
They were not moving. The moon could also be seen at a higher angle north of the triangle lights. We live on a small lake and there were approximately 20 or more Canadian geese right in front of our house just floating in the water and making no noise.
At 6:35 A.M. my husband came and woke me up to see the lights.
I went outside with him and also saw the lights. I thought they looked like Christmas lights on the peak of someone's roof. My husband pointed out that they were way too high in the sky for that.
We kept going out to check them and could no longer see them by 6:50 A.M. I was able to see them better using night vision on my phone camara.
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On tape no aircraft but very large Seemed to have laser light bleak red.
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There was a black but yet reflective basic saucer shaped UAP. Sighting was viewed from my back yard. Visible just above the tree line looking to be but only a few city blocks away was one reflective black UAP.
It zig-zagged about left to right and up and down for several minutes I'd say about 4 or 5 minutes. Then it just disappeared NOT zipping off but just diapering, poof gone!.
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A light moving southwest to the east then changing to a southeast heading The light seemed to be flying through a cloud, had a haze around it and seemed to be a directional light changing where it was pointing a couple of times. I am an air traffic controller and the light was verified by a pilot but not seen by our radar services. When the light got south of the airfield it had a seemingly burst of gas the shot out in front of it like a cone shape and then the light slowly faded until it was spotted again about 30 seconds later further to the southeast looking more like a bright star while moving and faded out very rapidly after about 10 seconds and then faded again until it was no longer visible or observed.
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I saw multiple ufos. I saw anywhere from 7-10 dots of light going really fast. Faster than airplanes and they would go in one direction for about 5-6 seconds and stop and go back in the other direction.
After about 5-ish minutes of watching them disappear and reappear, I saw a flash of white light in that general direction. Like if you stood on one side of a football field and I was on the other side and you flash a flashlight at me for a quarter of a second.
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Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS.
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15-20 clear, metallic orbs gathered at tree line, pulsed light in unison, left together, totally silent and disappeared. It was dusk, just around 6pm on Saturday, October 8th in Wichita, KS. I was sitting on my back patio on a beautiful early evening.
Our backyard has some trees on the perimeter but is mostly clear so that the sun can shine on the pool. Out of nowhere, I noticed at our treeline, which isn't extremely high, 15-20 clear, metallic orbs that were descending lower together. The formation were lines of 3 and 4, coming down together, like Space Invaders(pardon the pun).
They were not in one long chain, so this was no Starlink. I couldn't believe that I actually had time to count them or that I was seeing so many at one time. There was absolutely no sound, so this was not a drone.
They were self propelled and not swaying with any wind changes, so not a balloon either. They hung there for about 5 seconds and I got the feeling that they were checking me out? Then they all started pulsating light together, nothing that hurt me and no sound with the lights. They then moved up together and disappeared.
There was no trail to follow, they simply vanished. I took a video, but it is very short and difficult to view. By the time I realized that these could be UFO's the event was partially over and I was very nervous so the filming is jumpy.
The video is below. You have to enlarge the video with your fingers and then move around to view the objects. At 3 seconds if you stop, enlarge and move around you will see several of them.
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Somewhat low to the ground, silent, black, with many reflective points. Happened to be outside a little after 8pm CDST in Topeka KS. The object seemed large, black, wing shaped with many light areas, possibly street light reflections.
Not bright lights. Brighter than starlight. No sound, no bird sounds, no engine sounds.
Only had a pocket flashlight on me with 130 lumens. The object was out of range, flashlight didn't help. Object might be 300 feet above me??? The night was breezy, kind of moved like a "balloon" riding the wind currents.
The object was out of sight in about 20 seconds. Not enough time to get a larger lumen flashlight.Object seemed to be traveling SSW.
It wasn't a flock of birds, but that could also be used to describe the size of the black wing. Looking at the object as a whole, it looked like the shape was gossamer with 40 or more reflection areas/lights and black.
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6 lights flying west to east then 2 lights split off and went in a different direction and the other 4 went in a eastern direction.
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Small orange orb gaining very fast diagonal altitude and pausing for a second about 5 times before speeding west over head. I noticed the object because of the rate of climb and pause. It would ascend around 2 or 3 hundred feet diagonally southward and pause for a half second.
It did this a few times and then flew directly westward with no pause after it's last climb at a ridiculous speed. There was ample daylight still as it headed west, but no telltale sign of any type of aircraft body. It remained a dull orange colored orb as it flew out of sight.
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Bright white dots (4 pin heads) coming up in a vertical line from ground level northwest approximately 3/4" apart traveling southeast. Very distinct bright white solid lights which appeared slightly vertical, rectangular to horizon (4 pin heads; larger than planets, stars, aircraft) coming up individually in a very straight diagonal line from ground level approximately 3/4" apart travelling northwest to southeast. Approximately 8 in number.
Within the course of 3 minutes they each disappeared sequentially at the same point roughly 1/3 high in the sky to dead center above me. I was observing stars in the Flint Hills when this occurred (i.e.
, no one else present). I took pictures with an iphone7 (i.e.
, obviously an old model) as they sequentially came up but unfortunately flash was on (i.e., can't see black sky/white objects; may be able to photoshop though I tried a couple of techniques with no success).
Hadn't intended to take pictures on outing.
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White tic-tac shaped object that hovered and didn't move. The object was hovering in the sky completely stationary. I noticed it out of the car window.
I'm not sure how far away it was. It was a clear sunny day and just caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of my eye. Zoom in to the right side of uploaded pictures to see object.
Kansas 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 | 272 reported sightings | 22.95% of all reports |
Triangle | 116 reported sightings | 9.79% of all reports |
Circle | 107 reported sightings | 9.03% of all reports |
Unknown | 87 reported sightings | 7.34% of all reports |
Other | 84 reported sightings | 7.09% of all reports |
Fireball | 71 reported sightings | 5.99% of all reports |
Sphere | 61 reported sightings | 5.15% of all reports |
Disk | 58 reported sightings | 4.89% of all reports |
Cigar | 40 reported sightings | 3.38% of all reports |
Formation | 38 reported sightings | 3.21% of all reports |
Oval | 29 reported sightings | 2.45% of all reports |
Changing | 24 reported sightings | 2.03% of all reports |
Flash | 21 reported sightings | 1.77% of all reports |
Diamond | 19 reported sightings | 1.60% of all reports |
Cylinder | 19 reported sightings | 1.60% of all reports |
Rectangle | 18 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
Teardrop | 15 reported sightings | 1.27% of all reports |
Chevron | 13 reported sightings | 1.10% of all reports |
Egg | 12 reported sightings | 1.01% of all reports |
Cross | 11 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Orb | 7 reported sightings | 0.59% of all reports |
Cone | 5 reported sightings | 0.42% of all reports |
Kansas 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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October | 133 reported sightings | 11.22% of all reports |
July | 128 reported sightings | 10.80% of all reports |
June | 122 reported sightings | 10.30% of all reports |
August | 118 reported sightings | 9.96% of all reports |
November | 117 reported sightings | 9.87% of all reports |
September | 101 reported sightings | 8.52% of all reports |
December | 94 reported sightings | 7.93% of all reports |
March | 74 reported sightings | 6.24% of all reports |
February | 72 reported sightings | 6.08% of all reports |
January | 70 reported sightings | 5.91% of all reports |
April | 66 reported sightings | 5.57% of all reports |
May | 60 reported sightings | 5.06% of all reports |
Kansas 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 | 205 reported sightings | 17.30% of all reports |
Thursday | 176 reported sightings | 14.85% of all reports |
Friday | 171 reported sightings | 14.43% of all reports |
Sunday | 161 reported sightings | 13.59% of all reports |
Wednesday | 156 reported sightings | 13.16% of all reports |
Tuesday | 152 reported sightings | 12.83% of all reports |
Monday | 134 reported sightings | 11.31% of all reports |
Kansas 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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12/01/01 | 9 reported sightings | 0.76% of all reports |
07/04/10 | 5 reported sightings | 0.42% of all reports |
02/14/06 | 5 reported sightings | 0.42% of all reports |
11/24/19 | 4 reported sightings | 0.34% of all reports |
07/04/14 | 4 reported sightings | 0.34% of all reports |
Kansas 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 | 579 reported sightings | 48.86% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 195 reported sightings | 16.46% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 159 reported sightings | 13.42% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 101 reported sightings | 8.52% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 66 reported sightings | 5.57% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 55 reported sightings | 4.64% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Kansas
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Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Kansas
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