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Kentucky UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 75 UFO sighting reports in Kentucky from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (14 reports, 18.67% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (11 reports, 14.67% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (16 reports, 21.33% of total).
- 05/25/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 6.67% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (27 reports, 36.00% of total).
Kentucky UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 Kentucky 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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I was in my front yard. I saw a red prison shaped sphere flash three times looked like Christmas lights but we don’t have any. It was lying in my yard 6 ft away.
Flashed three times I walked closer and it disappeared. My dogs did not react to it.
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I saw very bright light flying very low. Then I saw diamond shape with lights looking like it was about to land near a pasture.
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My daughter and I was leaving our home, and looked up and a triangle craft was moving slowly above us. It was triangle with three circles underneath, two of which were red. It moved off into the hills quickly, leaving no trail.
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Craft trailing smoke from 2 engines. I was driving home from work on I-64 between Lexington and Winchester in the eastbound lanes. What I saw, and recorded on my iPhone, appeared to be a twin engine aircraft that was trailing black smoke from both engines.
It appeared to be around 20,000 feet in altitude and moving in roughly the same direction I was – east. It moved slowly like an aircraft across the sky. Obviously not a UFO, although it was too far from me to confirm any details.
I just thought someone should know about this event. I am a private pilot and know the difference between a contrail and smoke. This was smoke! I have pretty good video footage.
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Triangle craft hovered above local gas station,for approximately 3 minutes then slowly flew off toward Lexington.
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Triangular-shaped, multi-colored, erratically moving from side to side, up and down. Have video of it and many, many wild pictures I just can't explain. At some points it looks like a ball of plasma spinning and pulsating different intensely bright colors.
And when I say my phone to take several pictures at once, it seems to change general shape an color. But about every few shots of there is a definitive triangular shape. Last night it was not there, but the night before it was on the other side of the sky.
And also days before that in another area. I have photos and video. Have been really seeing these things since the summer in 2017.
But by far much more regularly as of late.
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I thought it was a star, but there was lights and it kept doing circular loops in the sky. I’m a sixteen year old female.
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I was looking at the stars like I usually do at work then all of a sudden I noticed a row of Lights moving I thought maybe the first one was a the satellite or the space station but all of a sudden they kept appearing and they were in perfect formation straight line heading west the east and they would appear out of nowhere one after another perfect formation one after the other after about 20 minutes of this just appearing and going straight in a straight line it stopped and then one or two would come then it stopped and then I saw the last one I think and it stopped it was amazing.
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Size of a XL drone with a light bar that strobes red/white I was laying down looking out my window and I noticed a red & white light in the sky. My window faces a hospital and I see heli's fly in and out but this one was different. It was heading in a direction towards my view.
I still thought it was a heli but as it got closer the lights were FORSURE not of a helicopter. It was 1 bar of lights that had the bent shape of a gibbons moon. The lights were red and white.
They were NOT blinking but flashed like a strobe. I jerked myself up out of bed and ran to my window and noticed that whatever was in the sky was making NO SOUND. ***it's important to know that sound is actually perceived louder at night.
I barely got a good look at it before it swept by out of my view. It was hard to make out the shape around these lights. It's even harder to remember even though I am typing this only 20 minutes after seeing it.
My best guess after I first saw it was a drone.
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I was standing in the doorway around midnight looking to the northwest sky when out of no where a crescent shaped object with large white pulsating lights and one center red light appeared. It hovered low then darted in one direction sideways I realized it was no plane. Then suddenly so fast and I do mean fast it ripped backwards and all of the lights split apart.
This is when I realized there were individual crafts to each light, Approximately 10 individual crafts. When they split they all seemingly disappeared except the red one and it flew off. I watched it speed off at a zippingly high rate of speed till I could no longer see it.
From my vantage point these lights were huge.
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My wife and I both saw a light in the sky fly by. Very bright and moved faster than any meteor or aircraft either of us had ever seen. Both looked at each other and asked if we saw it.
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1 slow moving greenish blue object moving in straight line with no flashing lights. Appeared to be round. Had a large circumference of glow.
There were planes in the skies at the time. This was not a plane. Hundreds of planes are visible from my house all the time.
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Brilliant spheres outside of Morehead KY Driving on HWY 32 North towards Maysville KY just outside Morehead city limits. Something caught my eye looked up to the left and saw a sphere object. It was it was very brillant light blue with silver hue.
The light came through clouds . It was headed north bound too, at a very rapid rate, stopped abruptly, then 5 spheres of the same color and intensity broke off from the larger sphere and each one headed in different direction, again at an extremely high rate of speed . The larger one started moving again at high rate of speed instantly, and then all spheres disappeared.
Whatever this was it was silent.
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Luminous streak of light descend then sped off at rapid speed In Heritage Creek of Louisville facing North Sky we just saw a flash of light. To me this light was luminous and soft white with some pink/purple light and appeared to be falling/descending so I at first thought it was a firework but realized it was not. And I watched as it just disappeared in the sky.
My partner saw same light but to him he saw the light fall as I saw it do, but he said he saw it spiral after it “fell” then shoot off into the distance (away from us) at a rapid speed. We didn’t feel the earth quake so nothing hit the ground.
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Well, I turned around to go inside the house and this big white light with a flashing white dim haze on the outer part, just fell so fast from the sky. When I first saw it, it was a normal small ball of light until it came closer, the appearance enlarged. It seemed like such a coincidence, when I stopped walking, it stopped falling.
Then it flew very fast to the opposite direction of me. My cousin ran from the road to tell me he saw the same exact thing in a matter of seconds. Everything about this UFO was completely white and seemed in such a hurry because of the amount of speed.
I would say it was about 3 or 4ft in diameter. There was only one of them and this happened at 1 AM. There were no clouds in the sky during this time.
Everything was just black. ((NUFORC Note: We have corrected the date above, based on a telephone conversation with the witness. PD)).
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I was taking out our trash containers to the curb and I just happened to look up a bit and reddish lights caught my attention. At first I thought it was military aircraft but then noticed that the lights were steady and no signs of strobes. I quickly ran into the house to grab my cell phone to record video but my wife called me right as I was trying to film them.
As I looked up the lights were dimmed out and you could only see a real faint white glow of the craft. They were moving steady and average speed of planes from Harrodsburg, KY, towards Junction, KY. NW to SE.
I watched them until I could no longer see them any longer. No sound what so ever. Clear skys.
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While travelling east bound on interstate I 64 a white/silver cigar shaped object moved very fast from the south to the north. I vanished from sight when about 40 degrees from my direction of travel. Large fast flying object in the distance probably 10 miles away of more.
Visibility at the time of sighting was unlimited.
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This was NOT a balloon floating in the sky!!! I was on my way home from fishing at Tom Wallace lake in Fairdale KY. I saw a chrome (silver colored) object in the sky. I saw the reflection and thought it was a (mylar) ballon floating in the sky.
As i got closer, it got bigger & bigger. I stopped my truck in the middle of the road to try to take a picture. But i could not get my phone camera to focus on it.
As i was trying to take that picture 2 jets came at a high speed and was chasing the object. When the jets went over they were so loud i could feel the vibrations in my chest and my truck was shaking. And as soon as i saw the jets the sliver object was GONE.
dissapeared FAST!!! I could not get the object to focus on my phone camera. So i went out and bought a Nikon P1000 so i can get good quality CLOSE UP pictures the next time i see one!! I'm only reporting this sighting now because my wife just found this website today.
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I remember looking at the clock and it being either 8 or 10 pm on Oct. 18 2019. I had been up for two days unable to sleep for some reason.
I guess I must have laid down and went to sleep after seeing what time it was. I do not remember going to bed. When I woke again it almost 6 am on Oct.
19 2019. I found two tear drop scoop mark scars on my left leg. They were new.
My eyes feel sunburnt. I'm physically ill. My body is so sore I can barley move.
Have sharp pains in my left ear. And a tingling sensation in the back of my head.
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Metallic egg shaped object vanished in front of our eyes! Object was seen over the Ohio river running parallel to Dixie Highway between Highway 44 and West Point. Object was egg shaped and metallic. It flashed bright light as if the sun were reflecting off of it.
The light dulled and the object disappeared as we watched it.
Kentucky 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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Circle | 14 reported sightings | 18.67% of all reports |
Light | 11 reported sightings | 14.67% of all reports |
Triangle | 9 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 6 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Cigar | 5 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Sphere | 4 reported sightings | 5.33% of all reports |
Formation | 4 reported sightings | 5.33% of all reports |
Disk | 4 reported sightings | 5.33% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 5.33% of all reports |
Fireball | 4 reported sightings | 5.33% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.33% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 1.33% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.33% of all reports |
Kentucky 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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September | 11 reported sightings | 14.67% of all reports |
December | 9 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
May | 9 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
November | 8 reported sightings | 10.67% of all reports |
July | 7 reported sightings | 9.33% of all reports |
October | 6 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
April | 6 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
August | 6 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
January | 5 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
June | 5 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Kentucky 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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Saturday | 16 reported sightings | 21.33% of all reports |
Thursday | 15 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Monday | 11 reported sightings | 14.67% of all reports |
Tuesday | 11 reported sightings | 14.67% of all reports |
Sunday | 9 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Friday | 7 reported sightings | 9.33% of all reports |
Wednesday | 6 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Kentucky 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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05/25/19 | 5 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
07/04/19 | 4 reported sightings | 5.33% of all reports |
04/16/19 | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
09/03/19 | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
05/26/19 | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Kentucky 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 | 27 reported sightings | 36.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 16 reported sightings | 21.33% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 10 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 9 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 7 reported sightings | 9.33% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 6 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
All Kentucky Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Kentucky, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Kentucky
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Kentucky.