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Kentucky UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 1,679 UFO sighting reports in Kentucky to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (316 reports, 18.82% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (231 reports, 13.76% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (267 reports, 15.90% of total).
- 11/16/99 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (11 reports, 0.66% of total).
- 2013 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (98 reports, 5.84% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (744 reports, 44.31% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Kentucky
These Kentucky 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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I was looking through my telescope and took a picture and it was on live. I noticed a black circle aircraft flying off the moon A black circular aircraft was seen flying off of the moon’s surface and was witnessed by 2 people. I have video evidence.
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Standing on porch, saw glowing orb moving fast in the sky then disappear and within 2 minutes glowing orb reappeared. 1-2 glowing and moving orbs observed moving about and disappearing. It is the night before the solar eclipse.
Myself and another person witnessed. I have a bachelors degree in science. This is not my first sighting but I haven’t had such an obvious sighting in several years.
After spotting it and pointing it out to other witness it quickly disappeared, within 2 minutes it reappeared and car alarm next door started going off.
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Bright green orb came straight down from the sky into the lake, followed by a second green orb that appeared closer to me then shot off Early this morning I woke up at 2:45am. For some reason I felt like I wanted to have a cigarette (not usual at that time) and went out onto my back patio. It was cool and very windy with some clouds.
My house is up a bit higher on a hill and can see down towards the Williamstown Lake that is about a quarter mile from my house, maybe less. On the patio I lit my cigarette and was looking north towards the lake. Hardly to believe my eyes an ethereal bright green orb shot perfectly straight down as if guided by a laser from above the clouds down through the clouds and directly into what seemed to be the lake.
The orb was as if it was a small green sun, my guess would be that it was approximately 30-40ft in diameter, and maintained the same intensity of brightness all the way until it disappeared into the lake. It was going fast but not that fast and never waivered in its speed. I was able to witness its decent for a total of about four seconds.
I have seen many shooting stars and meteors out here in these rural skies and this was not anything like that. There was no meteor trail, it did not get bright and then fizzle out like meteors do, it traveled perfectly straight downwards, it was much closer and brighter than a shooting star (approximately 1/4 mile away) and clearly came all the way down to the earths surface (the lake). As I witnessed this my stomach felt like it flipped from not believing what I was seeing.
I got scared and moved closer to the side of my house while continuing to watch, I thought it might come back up and fly away. About one minute after seeing this and waiting to see if it would re-emerge, just to the left of my field of vision another one of the same exact description appeared out of nowhere over the tree line in my back yard even closer to me, maybe 500ft out and 100ft above the trees. I turned my head slightly just in time to see it seem to materialize and then shoot off horizontally in a southern direction at tremendous speed.
Neither thing I saw made even the faintest of noise. I tried to run inside and wake up my brother who has been staying here for the last year, as well as get my phone. I went back outside and saw nothing further, while waiting for about ten minutes.
I did however hear a helicopter flying around but couldn't see it.
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Stationary pulsating silver orb UFO sighting 3/11/24 at 4:04 PM The location was Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY I was sitting outside the entrance to the Churchill Downs gift shop, behind the Barbaro statue. The weather was warm, sunny, clear blue sky, with no visible clouds. I was watching a high altitude passenger plane fly by (from right to left), when I noticed a stationary silver point in the sky.
Thinking this was another airplane, I watched for a few seconds. The object appeared to be completely stationary, but was pulsating. This pulsating was in both color and intensity with the object “flashing” regularly about every second (about 1 second “on” and 1 second “off”).
The color would go from bright silver to a dull gray, that very nearly matched the blue of the sky. This seemed more silver than white and seemed too bright to be an aircraft light. I was facing north and considered the sun reflecting off of an aircraft, but the pulsing seemed too regular.
The duration of the sighting was between 1 and 2 minutes. The object appeared to be stationary for the entire time it was under observation. I was not observing the object when it disappeared, so I don't know if it flew away or up or just disappeared (or simply stopped “flashing”).
I was able to capture 3 photos (1 second intervals) of the object with my telephone, 2 while the object was “dark” and 1 while the object was bright. The object was too small to see on the phone screen. There is a portion of the Churchill Downs roof or facade in the photos, which I used to frame the photo and for perspective.
There are 3 photos with the object circled and a screen shot from google maps to indicate my location and direction of the object. The time stamp info for the photos is: # 1 : 3/11/24 4:04:07 PM # 2 : 3/11/24 4:04:08 PM # 3 : 3/11/24 4:04:09 PM.
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Several sightings over several years. This is a post I made on Facebook today. I am a retired Soldier US Army MSG E-8 with 20 + years and also a retired Dept of the Army Civilian GS-11 Step 5, 19 years.
Can you help me? Did you ever see something that was flying in the visible sky above you? Was it making moves that you would not think a regular airplane could do? Was it too fast? Was it too slow? Did it stop and seem to just hover in place? Was it a bright spot in the daytime sky or if at night, was it a light or several lights? Could you see it plain enough to identify just what it was that you saw? Taking all this into consideration, you just might have seen an Unidentified Flying Object or a UFO. Of course the people in higher places have started calling them by other names. That way it places them a step or two higher up the ladder of scientific knowledge than we lesser humans.
To me, I will stick with Flying Saucer for the time being. The first modern human to make an official report described them as looking like saucers skipping across the water at "several thousand miles an hour"; hence, "Flying Saucers" appeared on the pages of the Tabloids the very next day. The same year, the wreckage of something was scattered across some 200 yards near the Army Airfield near Roswell, New Mexico.
It was first reported to be the remains of a Flying Saucer but the Army said it was just a Weather Balloon. The pictures of the wreckage published in the Newspapers certainly did not show a "balloon" of any type. I was just 11 years and when Dad discussed the incident with me, from his words I was totally convinced that a Flying Saucer had crashed and the Army was hiding the fact from the public.
I was then and still am today at 88 years old, a firm believer in UFO's. I have seen several objects in the skies over my head that certainly fits Flying Saucers, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO's), Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP's) or whatever they want to call them. They are real, many people have seen them, more have seen them and just didn't say anything about and way back before TV and Radio, many thousands more saw them and drew their pictures on the walls of the caves where they lived.
Some dating back many thousands of years before recorded history. I remember building a model of a UFO out of Balsa Wood and covering it with Aluminum Foil. I thought it looked very real but I was just 12 and proud of my work.
Since that time, I have had several sightings of things that were flying that I could not identify, therefore I called them UFO's. My first sighting, I was still in Highschool and had stayed until after dark. We were rehearsing for a play that I was in.
I was out on the front steps of the building facing north. A bright light appeared in the eastern sky that I immediately thought was a shooting star. It flashed across the sky east to west at a very high speed.
It stopped while still in my sight and retraced its path now west to east and disappeared in the skyline to the east, still at that speed of a shooting star. The next that I recall was a few years later. I was married and my wife and I were at the local Drive-In theater.
It was again just a bright light much like a shooting star. We were parked facing south and the light came from the west and traveled across the sky headed east. Again the light appeared to suddenly stop and headed west across the sky disappearing in the western skyline.
This is an event that you just do not see every day. This was after I had retired from the Army and was probably in my early fifties. I had been to an appointment at the Army Hospital on Fort Knox and was sitting out front of the building on a bench waiting for my wife to go get the car and pick me up.
It was mid-afternoon and just patchy clouds. I saw a Shining metal looking object slowly come out from above a cloud. It was in the air space above Fort Knox and moving very slowly.
When it was fully exposed from the cloud, it continued to move forward still very slow. The sun was glistening off of it and it was a good bit higher than the clouds that were scattered across the entire sky. Then it stopped forward motion and appeared to go straight up, rapidly going out of sight due to height.
Several years later, I would have been in my early seventies, I was standing on my driveway in the dark, just enjoying a warm summer evening and star gazing as I often do. There suddenly appeared in the Northwest sky at what appeared to be about the elevation of commercial aircraft, a rather large object as the lights appeared on it and they were Red and Green. They appeared to either blink on and off or they could have been on two bands around the object and were rotating.
It was standing in one location with the red and green lights flickering rather rapidly. Then just as sudden as it had appeared, it disappeared or at least it turned its lights off. It was dark and much to far away to see the object itself but it was there.
A month or two later, I was again standing in about the same spot and the Red and Green lights appeared in what seemed to me to be the same location. To the Northwest from my location at probably 20,000 feet or so in elevation. This time I ran and got Pat and she watched the lights with me for a few minutes.
Then they again disappeared like they just blinked off. This last fall, I saw what appeared to be a "Tic Tac" shaped object in the southern sky moving east to west at about the same obvious speed of a commercial airplane but it had no wings and was leaving no con-trail. It flew behind cloud cover and I lost it.
A few evenings before Christmas this last year, Pat and I had been shopping at Walmart's and when we came out to the car, it was already dark, we saw three white lights hovering not too high in the sky to the north. It would have put them well over the Fort Knox reservation. The three lights were seeming to hover close together and then one of the lights slowly moved away from the other two and headed SSE from our location.
The other two just seemed to disappear like they had turned off their lights. There were no running lights visible, just a single white light and no sound. Last and most recent, that same night when we saw the three lights at Walmart's, when we got home I walked out in the backyard and looked up at the night sky.
It was a very clear night and the stars were very visible. I noticed what appeared to be small clusters of stars that were moving rather strangely but staying close together. There were five small groups of five or six individual lights that I could see.
The stars were bright but these lights were brighter than the other stars and were moving. Then without showing any sudden movement from the sky, they were just gone. Yes I am old, but no, I am not senile.
I know that I saw something and they were obviously flying but I could not identify them so that makes them UFO's in my mind. Comments anyone? End of my FB post. The official forms that I find on the computer are so lengthy that I hesitate filling them out.
If necessary, I can but please let me know if it is worth my time. I live in Radcliff, KY. < > MSG US Army Ret.
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I woke up and took my dog out to go to the bathroom, it was a clear night I just looked up and saw a triangle shape with lights. I was taking my dog out to pee, I looked up and saw a triangle shaped object in the sky with multiple lights. I videoed it,.
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Saw a rather impressive “shooting star” while satellite. A few minutes later we saw a white light with an orb of “blurry”light below it White light with a large orb of blurry light below it even though sky was clear, we were spotting satellites when we saw a really nice long “shooting star” from west to north east direction. Several minutes later we saw pretty much out of nowhere an object that looked light a sphere of light and above it a single white light moving in unison with each other from above our heads moving to the north east moving fairly slow.
The orb of light appeared to be blurry even though the stars behind it in the sky were clear?.
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Two white tic tac shapes I looked up and saw a white tic-tac shaped object moving from north to south. It had no wings or contrails. A white projection came out from the right side for about 2 seconds and then went away.
It kept moving south until it was out of sight. About 2 minutes. About 30 seconds later another one appeared in the exact same place and moved in the exact same path.
Both objects were visible for 2-3 minutes each. I called my wife and daughter over. My daughter saw both of them.
My wife only saw the second one.
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I saw first one, then 4-5 fuzzy lights that moved erratically, disappeared and reappeared several times. I was driving north on Highway 55 when a large fuzzy light appeared in the sky just below the top of the windshield of my minivan. It was darting around erratically, then disappeared.
It was very confusing. Then I saw 4-5 of the same kind of lights doing the same thing, but disappeared more quickly than the first one had. I’m unsure of the exact order, but I believe I saw a single light 3 times and a group of lights twice within a 1-2 minute period.
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Late at night, was flashed through window Curtains were open, blue object had no sound and hoovered long enough to flash me with white beam through window, then floated away. It was very late at night. Will take lie detector test.
Other things have been happening too, since the incident. I have audio I'd like someone to hear.
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My mom walked outside she saw something in the kept looking seen it move and do odd things then I started recording it I seen the light do multiple things disappear come back go into mist shoot up real quick start falling down look like it was blowing up it was crazy it changed colors went into different object shapes legit crazy experience I have it all on record.
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It was raining fire straight toward us it hit 300 yards from our advantage point I located it on Google earth Me and my family were observing to see if the deer were able to eat the cover crops at about 1am the ground was frozen hard and school had been canceled for the 3rd week in a row due to snow on this night it was below 0 degrees like many that had passed we were looking at some deer when my mom started screaming and crying that it was the end of the world and began to pray with her doing so I burst into tears and looked toward the sky to witness what she was so upset about when I seen a huge fireball plumiting to earth with a bunch of smaller fireballs behind it my brother which has passed since and my father were speechless we actually thought it was going to crash on our truck so my dad grinds our old 72 Ford 3 speed colum shift in reverse and we move away as it crashed into a field and across a hilltop and was kept quiet by my father because noone believed it at the local store. For years everytime I would pass the field on a school bus I would turn to look there so 33 years later I was telling my daughter this event that took place that night and she ask me if I ever want and looked and I remember that someone had an accident on that farm and Noone was allowed to be on the farm per insurance so when I checked to see who owned it it was my old high school principal and he gave consent to look for anything and I believe that I have located whatever it was burning that fell that night and it will be the size of a school bus or a little bigger.
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Kentucky I65S UFO’s There were more than 3 witnesses to this sighting. 3 were in my car. My 2 children and I were on I65S going home.
We passed the Smiths Grove exit and saw something coming down from the atmosphere falling it seemed and we saw another in tow falling down as well. We continued down the interstate. I told my kids that they were probably a satellite that the government claims falls sometimes.
When we got a good view I could see that they had just stopped in the air. Just hanging out. We got to an open area and we could see them very well.
They were the classic metallic color, round with a dome top and in the air at an angle so I could see them very well. Then we saw a jet flying toward them quickly and idk what happened after that. We continued on our way home.
I tried to take pictures but they were not the best. The objects look white in the pictures.
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On the night of september twenty third, at about nine thirty p m I was taking my dog out and seen brigth white moving from the northwest to the southeast. At first there was 2and I hollered for my Wife. When she got to the back porch the 2 had disappeared in the southeast.
That's when we saw 8 more appear in the northwest. We watched them move across the sky the same has the others and disappear then 4 more appeared and moved across the sky and to same spot as the others and just vanish. They moved at a very fast pace but they were all in a somewhat straight line and somewhat evenly spaced in the 3 separate groups we saw.
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i saw servel lights in sky that was moving like nothing i have ever seen went to start car looket up sawa light bobbing up and down then it moved off to my left so i started looking around then isaw another light bobbing up and down it was to right about 12o clock from the one on my right tha whole time the frist one is stationary to my left then i see a forth on it was ziging and zagging up then out of the corner of my right eye i see a light zip off with a flash of light to the north then i see a flash from my far left almost behind me.
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High Flying orb I saw a bright orb, white in color, shimmering across the afternoon sky. I jokingly told my 6 year old it was a ufo thinking it was just a high flying plane, as well as pointing it out to my aunt. I tracked it northwest across the clear afternoon sky until it looked like it came to a stop above the house.
It sat there and it started fading out until it either disappeared or I lost it in the bright blue afternoon sky.
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Atleast 10 orange lights hovering in sequence with different sounds They were not flares. Had a thunder sound with automatic sounds. You could also feel some sort of energy.
No airport in that location. Two to three at a slow steady pace. Possible UFO ship, because it slowly paced at the same level for five minutes.
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I saw a green circle going extremely fast, then it just disappeared into the sky. Green circle in the sky going very fast and disappeared into nowhere.
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Why saw something, that we still can’t explain While fishing. We saw something, that we can’t explain. There was a long, cigar shaped, rather large object with NON flashing lights along the length of it.
It produced absolutely no sound and it was very quite on the lake that time of night. It was relatively slow moving(not fast enough to support aircraft flight). NOT Helicopters or any type aircraft that we could associate with this)(or we’d have heard them for sure).
To me, it was opaque. Almost to the point you could see through it, but not quite. We don’t know what we saw, but it was NOT explainable to us.
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three flashing orangish red lights arranged in a triangle, dancing across the sky and blinking I saw a very distant blinking light, it was white, and i thought it was a plane because planes pass all the time but it was moving really weird. it was dancing around and zipping too fast to be a plane so i asked my roommate if she saw it too, and we watched it for a while. we saw other flashing lights but this one kept coming back, it zipped around for a while before passing directly over our building and out of sight.
as it got closer the color got orangey, but white at the same time almost. it was close enough to where we could see the lights clearly but they just looked like lights, no craft.
Kentucky 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 | 316 reported sightings | 18.82% of all reports |
Circle | 199 reported sightings | 11.85% of all reports |
Triangle | 178 reported sightings | 10.60% of all reports |
Other | 121 reported sightings | 7.21% of all reports |
Disk | 117 reported sightings | 6.97% of all reports |
Unknown | 111 reported sightings | 6.61% of all reports |
Sphere | 106 reported sightings | 6.31% of all reports |
Fireball | 104 reported sightings | 6.19% of all reports |
Cigar | 62 reported sightings | 3.69% of all reports |
Oval | 61 reported sightings | 3.63% of all reports |
Changing | 50 reported sightings | 2.98% of all reports |
Formation | 37 reported sightings | 2.20% of all reports |
Rectangle | 33 reported sightings | 1.97% of all reports |
Diamond | 30 reported sightings | 1.79% of all reports |
Chevron | 22 reported sightings | 1.31% of all reports |
Cylinder | 21 reported sightings | 1.25% of all reports |
Flash | 17 reported sightings | 1.01% of all reports |
Orb | 14 reported sightings | 0.83% of all reports |
Teardrop | 12 reported sightings | 0.71% of all reports |
Egg | 10 reported sightings | 0.60% of all reports |
Cross | 6 reported sightings | 0.36% of all reports |
Cone | 2 reported sightings | 0.12% of all reports |
Kentucky 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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July | 231 reported sightings | 13.76% of all reports |
June | 169 reported sightings | 10.07% of all reports |
October | 160 reported sightings | 9.53% of all reports |
September | 157 reported sightings | 9.35% of all reports |
August | 155 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
November | 148 reported sightings | 8.81% of all reports |
May | 123 reported sightings | 7.33% of all reports |
April | 119 reported sightings | 7.09% of all reports |
March | 110 reported sightings | 6.55% of all reports |
December | 100 reported sightings | 5.96% of all reports |
January | 88 reported sightings | 5.24% of all reports |
February | 81 reported sightings | 4.82% of all reports |
Kentucky 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 | 267 reported sightings | 15.90% of all reports |
Thursday | 254 reported sightings | 15.13% of all reports |
Friday | 245 reported sightings | 14.59% of all reports |
Sunday | 232 reported sightings | 13.82% of all reports |
Wednesday | 220 reported sightings | 13.10% of all reports |
Tuesday | 218 reported sightings | 12.98% of all reports |
Monday | 205 reported sightings | 12.21% of all reports |
Kentucky 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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11/16/99 | 11 reported sightings | 0.66% of all reports |
07/04/14 | 10 reported sightings | 0.60% of all reports |
07/04/10 | 7 reported sightings | 0.42% of all reports |
07/04/11 | 6 reported sightings | 0.36% of all reports |
03/05/20 | 6 reported sightings | 0.36% of all reports |
Kentucky 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 | 744 reported sightings | 44.31% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 286 reported sightings | 17.03% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 282 reported sightings | 16.80% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 134 reported sightings | 7.98% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 105 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 90 reported sightings | 5.36% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Kentucky
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Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Kentucky
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Kentucky