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Kansas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 43 UFO sighting reports in Kansas from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (11 reports, 25.58% of total).
- November is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (11 reports, 25.58% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (9 reports, 20.93% of total).
- 11/24/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 9.30% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (14 reports, 32.56% of total).
Kansas UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 Kansas UFO reports from 2019, 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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While driving south on highway 35, I saw a light moving quickly through the clouds from the south east. It stopped abruptly, went quickly upwards and disappeared. It returned several times for approximately 15 minutes moving in erratic patterns.
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I stepped out back and saw a straight line procession of "Stars" . I called a friend 30 miles to the south of me and he and I stepped out back and saw a straight line procession of "Stars" . I called a friend 30 miles to the south of me and he and his wife saw them too.
I called my mother, 60 miles north of me and she could not see them.
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Saw a dot in the sky moving slowly with my brother. We watched it move from northwest to northeast. Thought it was a satellite until it started changing direction.
We saw 2 flashes/sparks come off of/towards it. One red tinted one white tinted.
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Sighting was at 7:40 pm, Saturday December 19th, 2019, In Belleville, KS. As I was driving west down Hwy 36 with my 12 year old daughter, I noticed a bright star/planet in the sky. Then I noticed it would fade as it traveled up in a 45 degree angle.
I pulled over into an empty lot and started watching. That is when I noticed it was a pattern of lights traveling in this angle. As one Began to burn brightly above the tree line out of no where and start going up, the one before it would get lighter, the one before that would get dimmer, and the last would burn out.
My daughter stepped out from the van to see what dad was watching and started yelling, "what is that?" All I could say with disbelief was, "I don't know. I don't know" We watched as this pattern continued for 30 seconds or more. I tried to take film, but my phone would not get a clear shot because of the street lights.
It almost looked like it could be a large spinning object because the lights would just start in the atmosphere and move from south west to north west in that same angle 20 feet above the tree line. the objects were not rising from earth, but starting in the sky and ending in the upper part of the sky line. The pattern would start left and go right.
and when the last Light started up, it was a bigger and brighter golden ball then the others and took longer to fade out as it went from south west to north west in night sky. it was just amazing to watch these lights start glowing out of no where and move left to right. I have included a picture I put together of what we saw and in the horizon area we watched it.
best part was my daughter was able to witness this too. My daughters report: Dec 21 2019 Belleville KS 7:40 pm: I thought it was weird that my father pulled over and yelled at me to get out of the car. What I first saw it as was either a drone or a missile.
But it couldn't have been a drone since it was the size of a planet. The objects seem to be going in a 45 degree angle as I was facing west. A shooting light of objects that seemed to ba a bright glow with a fade off of blue.
They seemed to keep coming one to two seconds after each other. There seemed to be about 12 to 15 objects. They seem to have the same lighting as a roman candle.
But started from the middle of the sky. They almost seemed to be a rotating item. They all seemed to be traveling in a straight line and just fade off.
The main witness, is a vault/ funeral technician/ headstone cutter Second witness, junior high student.
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MADAR Node 153.
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There were four lightsin the sky that appeared to be chasing each other It was about 5:45 pm on Wednesday, December 11, 2019, in Independence, Kansas. I was driving to the Independence High School at 10th and Oak st for an event. As I approached the school via Oak Street, I noticed lights in the sky to the west.
At first I thought they were meteors. My husband and 14 year old son also saw them. My husband remarked that it looked like something was falling through the atmosphere, but as we watched, it appeared as though the lihts were chasing each other.
There were four of them, but only three were lit at a time. They lit from south to north in the sky and as one dimmed another took its place. We watched them as we pulled into 10th street and then into the school parking lot.
By this time, the lights had moved a great distance across the sky and were then northwest of the city instead of due west. It occurred to me that I could take a picture of them, but by the time I got my phone out of my pocket, they were gone. My husband said he thought they looked like military flares but that they disappeared too soon, as in they were gone in a matter of seconds.
The entire display took perhaps ninety seconds from when we first noticed them until they disappeared.
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Bright lights merge into V formation and vanish. I was driving home from work on Saturday, November 30th at approximately 9:35 pm (CST) when I noticed bright lights darting across the clouds in the sky. At first I thought they might be searchlights, but they kept changing shape.
They went from circular to oval and were flickering as they darted across the sky in random patterns. I continued watching the lights as I pulled into my subdivision I realized that the lights weren’t coming from earth, but shining down and glowing above the cloud line. They suddenly began blinking and elongating into a V formation, similar to airport runway lights.
(The closest airport is in Olathe, Kansas, a good fifteen minutes south west of my location.) The lights remained in this formation, blinking three times before meeting up at the tip of the V and completely vanishing. It was the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
I wish I hadn’t been driving. I would have pulled out my cell phone and recorded the lights.
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MADAR Node 123.
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A uniform row of light passed over Kansas I live in east central Kansas, at approximately 6:00 I was observing a cloudless sky just before sunrise, admiring the big dipper and I saw a row of lights. I counted 15 at least. perfectly spaced, traveling In a northeastern direction at what must have been a height altitude, no sound and all had matched speeds except for one that’s was offset Slightly from the rest moving faster.
I hope more people report.
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They all came from a dark area of the sky. But like they were coming out of something darker than the space around them. Like watching items come off a conveyor belt in a factory.
It was almost mechanical in feel. They all traveled from the southwest to the northeast. They went in a mostly single file pattern.
One after another. All looked similar to venus looks from earth(bright white lights) They all continued northeast until fading out of view. Took about 20-30 seconds to cross the sky beginning to end.
Every few objects another would travel next to one like an escort. On northern side of line of objects. I saw like a flare type white streak under them a time or two.
I could see sever small dimmer objects observing from what appeared further away. I would guess 3-4. If I were to guess direction of objects travel I would guess Hudson Bay or Baffin Island from southeast Kansas.
I was so in awe I didn't think to try and capture with phone until afterwards. Used old picturesto give example. I have seen a lot if odd thing's from the wilds of Idaho to Texas my entire life.
I watch things by my nature. I never ever saw unknown objects so numerical or almost robotic in feel. Nothing that I felt compelled to share, ever.
There was air traffic and don't know how this wouldn't be seen from a large radius. It was very clear and very open and easy to see. I am still rattled 14+ hours later.
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10 stars moving in a line from SW to NE early morning . I was deer hunting and was standing outside the camper gazing up at the sky. The stars were amazing out in the country.
As I observed I noticed one light/star moving. I thought well that must be an airplane but the light did not blink then I noticed at a little ways back a second light moving exactly as fast and in the same direction as the first, then a third, a forth, a fifth, a sixth, a seventh, an eighth, a ninth, and a tenth. The string of lights was all the same brightness, size, and moving as if on a string from the south west to the north east.
It covered a vast area from my view they stretched out over half the sky.
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Walking out of our house my daughter says wow you never hear planes out here and I stoped and could hear a low roar that that felt nearby once it felt Further away I spotted a line of flashing lights heading north it appeared to be one massive craft soon i couldn’t hear or see it.
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I was driving on 400 freeway in Wichita Kansas then some lights caught my attention. At first I thought it was a plane but the lights were too bright. Then within five seconds the lights disappears.
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Walking with children and they pointed up and asked what it was. I couldn't see it until it passed in front of a star and it distorted the view of the star. Which I then saw it.
I could see through it in parts. No noise. Much slower then a plane and very close to the building.
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We saw an object in the sky with multiple white lights in a straight row. The object was very long at about 1/4 mile long. The object was about 10,000 feet up.
The object flew slowly North East to South west direction. The object was very quiet with no engine noise. The sky was very clear and the object left no sort of trail.
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Got woken up by a bright light out by the corn field, it got up against the side of the house and looked like a huge spotlight shinning in my house. At first I was mad and then realized that no person could stand 3 stores tall looking in my windows at me. It then pulled back and took off faster then I could have blinked.
Whatever it was has had me thinking about it all day.
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Stationary light streaks across the sky at the speed of a shooting star after being stationary. 1 second stationary 1 second moving out I just had left work, was on my way home, and was randomly looking up at the stars. I had noted various stars and also some relatively slow moving airplanes off in the distance identified by their lights creeping very slowly across the sky and blinking as they do.
All of the sudden I noticed a brighter than the rest light that appeared as a dot like a star but larger and brighter and completely stationary/not moving. As soon as I looked at it literally 1 second after I locked eyes onto whatever it was it streaked across the sky out of sight off into the horizon at what seemed like the speed of a shooting star. I was shook at what I had just witnessed all in 2 seconds.
I kept telling myself it has to of been a shooting star but then how would it be possible for it to be stationary as it was when I had first made eye contact with it. I cannot explain what I had witnessed with a sober mind and absolutely history of seeing things that aren’t there. What I have j! ust seen defies any reasonable explanation.
Whatever I witnessed could be clearly differentiated from anything known.
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MADAR Node 123.
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I first noticed two air craft flying in the eastern direction. They produced a constant flashing, which to me is easly identifiable as aircraft. As they flown for a few seconds I noticed a third appear.
Showing three lights in a triangler shape. This object was flying in the north to north western direction. When watching this, one of the eastern flying aircraft did a U turn and starting flying west.
Focusing on the north northwestern flying object, it began to rotate in a corkscrew motion. At this moment I attempted to grab my cell phone but as the western aircraft pasted infront of the other object it faded into black or just got to far away to see. Both other aircraft continued on thier paths.
The movement of this third object was to quick and erratic with two other references to see at the same time.
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We were driving west towards Miami Oklahoma and all 3 of us in the car saw a bright flash of light up high in the sky and the skies are clear tonight no bad weather it was like lightning but different.
Kansas UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 11 reported sightings | 25.58% of all reports |
Triangle | 5 reported sightings | 11.63% of all reports |
Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 11.63% of all reports |
Circle | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 6.98% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 4.65% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 4.65% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Kansas UFO Sightings From 2019 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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November | 11 reported sightings | 25.58% of all reports |
October | 8 reported sightings | 18.60% of all reports |
December | 6 reported sightings | 13.95% of all reports |
June | 5 reported sightings | 11.63% of all reports |
August | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
January | 3 reported sightings | 6.98% of all reports |
September | 3 reported sightings | 6.98% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 4.65% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
Kansas UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Friday | 9 reported sightings | 20.93% of all reports |
Sunday | 8 reported sightings | 18.60% of all reports |
Thursday | 7 reported sightings | 16.28% of all reports |
Wednesday | 6 reported sightings | 13.95% of all reports |
Saturday | 5 reported sightings | 11.63% of all reports |
Tuesday | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
Monday | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
Kansas UFO Sightings From 2019 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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11/24/19 | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
08/23/19 | 3 reported sightings | 6.98% of all reports |
12/11/19 | 2 reported sightings | 4.65% of all reports |
10/31/19 | 2 reported sightings | 4.65% of all reports |
11/11/19 | 2 reported sightings | 4.65% of all reports |
Kansas UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 14 reported sightings | 32.56% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 13 reported sightings | 30.23% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 7 reported sightings | 16.28% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 4 reported sightings | 9.30% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 2.33% of all reports |
All Kansas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
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Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Kansas
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Kansas.