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Kansas UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 73 UFO sighting reports in Kansas from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (22 reports, 30.14% of total).
- April is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (11 reports, 15.07% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (20 reports, 27.40% of total).
- 03/06/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 4.11% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (30 reports, 41.10% of total).
Kansas UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Kansas UFO reports from 2020, 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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Blue colored circular object in the night sky. On December 26, 2020 I was on my patio and spotted a blue (kind of fuzzy) circular object seemingly flying in no particular pattern. It was approximately 8 PM, dark, cold and clear, although I do not recall seeing stars that night and I don't see any in my video or pictures.
I have the pictures and video on my phone but do not have the ability to e-mail them but could send by text. I just now am hearing about the sighting around Hawaii and believe it may be the same thing. If there has been an explanation, I would appreciate a response.
Thank you.
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Two white lights traveling at a high rate of speed. Driving east bound on rural highway 54, between eldorado Ks and eureka Ks. About 5 miles west of eureka.
Very clear dark night, two white lights, tiny or way off in the distance looking almost straight north. The white light were clearly chasing each other, what got me most excited is both light traveling very fast came to a complete stop, went straight up, stopped then took off again headed west. I stopped pulled over and watched them travel west for a few seconds until they were out of sight.
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My boyfriend was outside smoking a cigarette when he called me to the front porch there was at least 10 lights in a row going the same direction headed north they went all the way up to a certain point and disappeared in the sky.
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Rainbow like flashing object that was stationary in the sky Went to the living room to turn off lights and looked out the window, noticed a very bright light. Appeared too bright to be a start, looked on Google sky map, didn't see anything that matched. The wife and I filmed this for about an hour, between 11:30pm and 12:30am.
We have multiple videos from 2 different phones and vantage points. https://youtu.be/JF15QeC_oqw.
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Driving home from work and saw one fireball. Watched for about a minute and it disappeared. Drove home about a minute away and looked up again at there were two.
One of the fireballs was faster then the other. Ran in to get wife to see and one had disappeared. So we watched one for about 30 seconds it disappeared.
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Black formation that gyrated into different S shapes. I was out walking my dogs when I saw a black formation moving to the east. I first thought it was a formation of geese flying but as it got closer I realized it was some kind of object.
It was silent and seemed to gyrate into different S shaped formations. It then started moving to the northwest. I saw one of my neighbors sitting on her porch, I asked her to please look at it so I would have a witness.
Unfortunately, I did not have my cell phone with me.
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Fast moving, bright white spherical object. Round, pure white light, very short tail of the same color (could have been perceived tail as it was moving so fast). Disappeared very quickly.
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My mother and I were out running errands in West Wichita, on Interstate 235 going south just south of Zoo Blvd. We saw 2 fighter type jets fly together overhead. By the time we went another mile and half to Kellogg and got on the bridges we saw the jets separate and one put out landing gear and seemed to stall.
It was extremely low in altitude. (This is close to Eisenhower Airport). Then one keeps going and as we crest a small hill we both saw a large white craft hovering, which we both thought was an extremely large commercial plane, but it had no wings, and accelerated to the West at a high rate of speed, with one of the jets chasing it, until it completely disappeared.
It was large, white, and cigar shaped.
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it was loud and bright i was driving down the county road L and i heard a weird noise. and then my car shut down then i saw a light a light coming behind me. then it stopped in front of me it was really bright.
and the horses by the road ran away from it then it went into the sky and left.
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Light hovering southeast of Herington, KS While walking my dogs, I (for a second time in 8 months), saw a bright light in the sky. Months ago I saw it Northwest of Herington and tonight the same type of light was observed SouthEast of Herington (opposite side of town). It is decently far away (not close) and at approximately 45-50 degree angle upward from my point of view.
The sky was very clear with close to a full moon. Temperature was chilly (40*) with a slight breeze. The light, observed via eye and through field glasses, flashed white with reddish and blue hues.
It did not travel and hovered in place. There was no observable sound(s). I am familiar with helicopter aircraft, both military and civilian, which I am sure it is neither.
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Row of white lights slowly moving over the highway. Driving home Halloween night we noticed bright lights over the highway. As we got closer they did not appear to be moving.
Once even closer the line of six lights was very low over a field next to the highway. We decided to take the exit next the lights so that we could drive under. The shape was hard to make out because of the brightness of the lights but it did appear to be a dark grey, very similar to the night sky so that the full length of the craft was not determinable.
We drive 20 feet up the road to the end of the ramp and there was no sight of the lights behind us at all. The lights, all white, remained in the same formation the entire time and whatever the craft was slow moving until it entirely disappeared. Latitude: 39.
1156 | Longitude: -96.696358.
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About 9-10 objects were all over the sky With a red light. I had thought they were an airplane as they had one light that would blink 3 times. However as one flew directly above me I noticed it had 3 red lights in the formation of a triangle one of the lights would blink 3 times rapidly and within a second, blink again.
My friend and I saw a similar craft on a seperate date.
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MADAR Node 81 Did not trigger but showed qualifying field numbers and compass-heading changes at the time of the sighting.
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The sky had been clear in this rural area, and the man and his son were walking to the barn when his son saw the object first and asked him what it was. It was at about a 40-degree angle up. He pointed at it and they both stood and watched it for 2-3 minutes.
When the man then looked down at his son to tell him he didn't know what it was, then back up, the object was gone. The object had been high in the sky, somewhere between 5-10,000 feet, range 1-2 miles, and was stationary. It appeared to be 20-40 feet long, possibly longer, cylinder/cigar-shaped, clearly outlined and silver/chrome reflective.
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White spheres spotted in Rossville Kansas Description: white spheres zipping through the clouds/sky at unimaginable speeds. At some points they would zip themselves into a triangle formation. The spheres even seem to blip in and out of existence.
I was on Main Street in Rossville facing North. The videos capture the UFOs great when you zoom in and slow them down *I will email these* You can see all the points in which they travel, and even a really good view of the aircraft.
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My friend and I saw a pink/orange light expel a dark object and then dissappear. *Had been walking in the opposite direction on 54th street, but were facing the East when we witnessed the object Description of object: pink/orange light, which we had mistook at first for a car headlight. The light grew in size quickly (less than a second) froze in place and expelled a black form in a slithering manner.
The whole object looked to be quite large, over the size of a large truck. As soon as it made these motions, it froze in place and disappeared. *no noise *the experience was very short *we were est.
100 yards away.
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Spherical-ish shaped, orange light traveled from east to west overhead. I thought it might be a lantern, but it moved across the sky (overhead) too fast.
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MADAR Node 87.
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Bright ball of flickering red light across the sky in Topeka, Kansas At exactly 22:54 , our doorbell cam alerted to motion. I then saw a bright, red, flickering light much like mars looks through a telescope yet it was approximately 1/2 the size of the full moon with the naked eye. I went outside and this ball of light moved slowly across the sky which took approximately 1 minute before vanishing behind trees.
This was bright enough to illuminate the driveway and vehicles and I have the video on my doorbell cam but I only know how to send it via email and text. The doorbell cam company is not allowing me to post it publicly for some reason.
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Witnessed 2 bright orange lights rise and change direction and color. One objects lights went off revealing a dark triangle. At dusk on August 25, 2020, 2 members of my household witnessed 2 large, round orange lights rising from the horizon south of our home.
The bright orange globes rose up slowly. I thought they were floating Chinese lanterns and went outside on my porch to watch them drift. I have seen dozens of floating Chinese lanterns and I’m familiar with how they travel through the sky at night and their light effects.
As the 2 orange lights slowly climbed higher, they changed color instantly and then changed direction suddenly moving north. They changed color from bright orange to more yellow and white. As the objects got closer I realized they were much larger than a Chinese lantern and further away.
The objects did not appear to travel in perfectly straight lines to each other and were silent. They were both going the same general direction of north toward Fort Leavenworth. As the first object got to my 10 o’clock, the lights suddenly went off and a dark, triangle shap! ed object was clearly visible.
The triangle shaped object maintained the same path. The second bright, yellow-white light that was following the first moved past my 10 o’clock and kept traveling north with its lights on. It never turned it’s lights off.
I have a video I took on my cell phone. The event was observed for almost 2 minutes.
Kansas UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 22 reported sightings | 30.14% of all reports |
Circle | 7 reported sightings | 9.59% of all reports |
Formation | 6 reported sightings | 8.22% of all reports |
Changing | 4 reported sightings | 5.48% of all reports |
Sphere | 4 reported sightings | 5.48% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 5.48% of all reports |
Triangle | 4 reported sightings | 5.48% of all reports |
Oval | 4 reported sightings | 5.48% of all reports |
Other | 3 reported sightings | 4.11% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 2.74% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.37% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 1.37% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 1.37% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.37% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 1.37% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 1.37% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 1.37% of all reports |
Kansas UFO Sightings From 2020 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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April | 11 reported sightings | 15.07% of all reports |
March | 10 reported sightings | 13.70% of all reports |
November | 7 reported sightings | 9.59% of all reports |
July | 7 reported sightings | 9.59% of all reports |
August | 6 reported sightings | 8.22% of all reports |
January | 6 reported sightings | 8.22% of all reports |
February | 6 reported sightings | 8.22% of all reports |
May | 5 reported sightings | 6.85% of all reports |
October | 5 reported sightings | 6.85% of all reports |
September | 4 reported sightings | 5.48% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 4.11% of all reports |
December | 3 reported sightings | 4.11% of all reports |
Kansas UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 20 reported sightings | 27.40% of all reports |
Wednesday | 12 reported sightings | 16.44% of all reports |
Tuesday | 11 reported sightings | 15.07% of all reports |
Monday | 9 reported sightings | 12.33% of all reports |
Sunday | 8 reported sightings | 10.96% of all reports |
Thursday | 7 reported sightings | 9.59% of all reports |
Friday | 6 reported sightings | 8.22% of all reports |
Kansas UFO Sightings From 2020 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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03/06/20 | 3 reported sightings | 4.11% of all reports |
07/18/20 | 3 reported sightings | 4.11% of all reports |
04/18/20 | 2 reported sightings | 2.74% of all reports |
04/27/20 | 2 reported sightings | 2.74% of all reports |
02/08/20 | 2 reported sightings | 2.74% of all reports |
Kansas UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 30 reported sightings | 41.10% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 18 reported sightings | 24.66% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 8 reported sightings | 10.96% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 7 reported sightings | 9.59% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 6 reported sightings | 8.22% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 4 reported sightings | 5.48% of all reports |
All Kansas Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Kansas, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Kansas
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Kansas.