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Kentucky UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 91 UFO sighting reports in Kentucky from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (28 reports, 30.77% of total).
- March is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (19 reports, 20.88% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (16 reports, 17.58% of total).
- 03/05/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (6 reports, 6.59% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (40 reports, 43.96% of total).
Kentucky UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Kentucky 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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Bright red orb reported by local 911 center, law enforcement dispatched to investigate sightings Around 23:00-00:00 on December 25th 2020 the Leslie county 911 center reported sightings of a bright red orb traveling north to south over the area. They reported they had received several calls and dispatched sheriff department officers to investigate. The exact dispatch was “red orb of light steady shining and traveling at a high rate of speed slowing down and hovering over homes traveling north to south” no updates were made over public communications or scanners that were legible.
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Unnatural Extraterrestrial activity and violation to the human body and mind I am a Us citizen and a Elite family member that lives in ky .I have moved around in my city during research and have noticed and experienced some unnatural activity. i recorded audio of what I would hear in this place , Around us and in our elders .
its not of this world. This city is under attack i have seen something that wasnt of this world jumping from car to car 3 ft all white almost transparent .Also another kind of et behind the wheel of a car.
Then we as the United States of America are known to hide things but it is time that we take notice that something is going on in the United States of America that has been covered up and now it is affecting the citizens of this place .the people are being violated mentally and physically where I am. please do not ignore it I'm afraid that something terrible will happen if this Behavior continues and the proper authorities continue to ignore the obvious.
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Unnatural Extraterrestrial activity and violation to the human body and mind I am a Us citizen and a Elite family memeber that lives in ky .I have moved around in my city dueing research and have noticed and experienced some unnatural activity. i recorded audio of what would hear in this place .
Around us and in our elders abd its not of this world. This city is under attack i have seen something that wasnt of this world jumping from car to car 3 ft all white almost transparent .Also another kid of et behind the wheel of a car.
Then we is the United States of America are known to hide things but it is summer time that we take notice to the Arby's is something is going on in the United States of America that has been covered up and now it is affecting the citizens of this place of America the people are being violated mentally and physically so where I am give me you what's your name please do not ignore it I'm afraid that something terrible will happen if this Behavior continues and the proper authorities continue to ignore the obvious.
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Saucer seen by two individuals over Louisville, KY. I was driving with one passenger heading eastbound on Shelbyville Road between the Oxmoor Mall and Hurstbourne Lane. The craft was moving north-northwest from the south-southeast from a higher altitude.
Initially, we both thought it was an airplane. However, it rapidly descended to around 500-600ft. We thought it must be a helicopter until we noticed there was no noise and - most obviously - it was saucer-shaped with 4-5 white lights around the circumference and one red light on top.
Even then we thought maybe it was a drone of some sort; however, the shape does not match and it was much too large to be any kind of civilian drone as this craft was the size of a small to mid-size plane. To my knowledge, the only drones large enough to match this description are military ones. The movement didn't match that of a drone either.
This craft moved extremely smoothly - as if it were gliding. The craft hovered for a few seconds over a neighborhood in the Lyndon area,! before heading north a bit, turning back south over the mall, and then westward over the Watterson Expressway before it shot up into the clouds and disappeared.
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I observed an orb of white light passing over north Princeton, going west to east. It was slow moving and without sound. Two family members first spotted it and called me outside to get my opinion of what it was.
It was not a plane or helicopter, and was too high to be a drone. It wasn’t a satellite, because it was to low for the light to have been reflection of the sun; it was far too bright for reflected light, as well.
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Odd light that changed directions. While traveling down a small single lane country road myself and my friend witnessed a large, very bright white light streaking down the sky. The entire event was probably less then 2 seconds.
At first glance the object appeared to be a oddly bright pure white shooting star. While the object was tracking through the sky the object abruptly changed directions and began traveling straight up before disappearing.
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Super Fast Object I did not notice this in the video until I was looking for some drone footage to upload to TikTok. The original video is too large to upload but there are no birds or anything in sight due to the time of the year. All of a sudden I see this flash of something and the more and more I watched it i'm like there is no way that is a bird.
I'll let the experts tell me what it is but for now it's unknown. I added the sound to the vide to show when it appears. The first part is normal speed and the second part I slowed down to .
25%. If you need me to cut more of the original video to fit a certain size to show more of the video before and after, I can do that.
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Lights hover above he trees before moving Husband was taking water to the horses in lower pasture. On the way down, he saw several red and white lights. Thinking to himself it couldn't be house lights as none close enough.
He parked at fence & put hose in waterer. He looked up to see a silent "thing" above the trees to the NE which was stationary. As he watched it started moving N-NW making no sound.
White light on front and red on back. Said it were really BIG because of the space btwn the red and white lights. He said then another came into his view, rising up above tree level, then going same way, and another, until there were 4.
He said they made no sound at all.
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star shape high in the sky.it glittered at one of the edges.i was driving when i saw this huge 5 point star.
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Blue moon falls right out of the sky Tonight 11/05/2020 approximately 7:15pm in Louisville, Kentucky I witnessed what I can only conclude as a UFO in the night sky. The only way I can describe what I saw is by saying that it looked like the moon fell out of the sky. It was a silver-blue orb in the sky that darted toward the horizon in less than 5 seconds.
It has been a relatively clear night sky but the orb in question had a halo effect around the center that made it appear as though it were shining behind a cloud sheet. From where I was standing at the time it appeared to be moving either south or south west. Unfortunately, I did not have a view of the horizon line at the time of the incident, but it certainly did look as though something was falling and not flying given how fast the object moved.
The city of Louisville has a lot of air traffic so most people can attest to seeing large aircrafts in the sky at almost any given time of day. In fact, at the time of the incident, there was an airplane in the same line of sight as the strange object. There are no comparisons between the mystery object and the airplane at all.
The lights on the airplane were smaller and more clearly visible than the large moon-like object I saw, which leads me to believe the object was either further away than the airplane or at a higher altitude. I was the only person in my party at the time of the event and I can not verify any other witnesses. I was in a high-traffic area in a small metropolitan during the time of the event so I would make the assumption others would have seen it in the area.
My only concern is that because the city has so much air traffic flow others might mistake the object as a local air craft. My first instinct was to write it off as an aircraft as well. I probably wouldn’t have reported it either except the whole scenario kept bugging me.
I do not have any knowledge of air traffic control or flight patterns, however I do have many years experience in the field of optics and I can say that whatever I saw was not an illusion or trick of the light. I did go through the trouble of making an illustration of what I saw, and provided map details as well. Originally I thought I was seeing the object moving north or north-east but after looking further into the details I realize it’s more like south or southwest.
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White, luminous triangle in morning sky south of the city. Saw a white, luminous upside down triangle in a clear, blue, cloudless sky south of city. We were driving south and object appeared to be stationary.
As our direction changed to the east, the object started moving very rapidly, moving from west to east. We looked at object through different windows and at one time with window down. No sound could be heard over traffic.
After approximately 5 minutes object just vanished.
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Pyramid shaped ufo at low altitude and speed with clear visibility. Seen an upside pyramid shaped craft appearing black in color with lights flashing in a pattern around the top with a blue light in a v shape on one side. Was at a very low altitude with low speed and completely silent.
Seen something resembling a shooting star about 10 minutes before seeing the craft. Watched the craft as it moved away and looked as if it was looking for something in the distance and emitted a bright bluish light lighting up the sky before disappearing.
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I asked my friend if he had looked at the night sky he had said no I walked towards the outside for a look and he followed then nothing but looking at the night sky he then goes in and im not exactly sure how long I was out there but I seen something coming into my vision 3 lights coming towards me and shifting right it moved like shape I freaked out and ran in for my friend.
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I had gotten up to use the bathroom and a bright orangish flickering light caught my eye out the window because it was low and relatively close. I watched for a few minutes and it moved a bit left/right and forward almost. Super tired I got back in bed and told my husband he should go look.
I drifted off but when he got back in bed he said that was the coolest thing and it was so close. In the morning I asked what he saw to compare and he said an orange triangle. He described it much closer than when I had looked at it.
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Lights moving around the sky. Saw several lights moving around the sky in an odd pattern. Lights would go away and then come back several minutes later.
Lights moved all over the sky. Sometimes close together at times far apart.
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Low flying all white craft, est. 100 ft up. Looked like a military drone.
On a clear day in October (not a cloud in sight) i was on my way home from lunch when this object flew over the road right in front of me. At first i thought it might be a military drone but it was too big and flying too low. It was about 100 ft high off the ground.
All white craft, no logos, no propulsion, no pumes coming out of the back. Around 40 ft long. I tried to follow it but it went over the tree line and out of my view.
It was going around 40mph. Kind of like it was on autopilot.
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Disc shaped object moving in strange directions very quickly We saw a disc or saucer shaped object come across the mountain. It stopped and hovered with no sound for approximately 2 minutes then shot to the left at a 90 degree angle very quickly then went straight up until it disappeared into the night sky.
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3 noiseless and dark triangular aircraft were spotted hovering completely still over the interstate I-75. Driving home and saw three spaced apart black triangular aircrafts with white and red lights hovering still over the interstate I-75. Two of them were hovering above the strip of land which separates the north and southbound lanes and one was hovering on the outskirts of the northbound lane.
There was no noise even though the aircrafts were hovering at about the same height as an airplane getting ready to land. The aircrafts did not move.
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Small continuous light moving slowly across the horizon. Came outside in my back yard and noticed a spherical light on the horizon. It floated slowly North to South following the horizon.
In my opinion it was not a plane or helicopter because it had no flashing lights and moved way too slow. Then instead of moving horizontally it started to drift down past the horizon out of sight. The odd thing is I tried to record video of the object with my phone but even though I could clearly see it, it couldn't be seen through my phone camera.
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Blue red and white lights,was dark so I couldn't tell the shape but what was odd is that it didn't move at all.
Kentucky 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 | 28 reported sightings | 30.77% of all reports |
Circle | 18 reported sightings | 19.78% of all reports |
Triangle | 9 reported sightings | 9.89% of all reports |
Sphere | 8 reported sightings | 8.79% of all reports |
Other | 6 reported sightings | 6.59% of all reports |
Unknown | 4 reported sightings | 4.40% of all reports |
Disk | 4 reported sightings | 4.40% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 3.30% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 2.20% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 2.20% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 2.20% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 1.10% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 1.10% of all reports |
Kentucky 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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March | 19 reported sightings | 20.88% of all reports |
April | 12 reported sightings | 13.19% of all reports |
July | 11 reported sightings | 12.09% of all reports |
August | 8 reported sightings | 8.79% of all reports |
October | 7 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
May | 6 reported sightings | 6.59% of all reports |
February | 6 reported sightings | 6.59% of all reports |
November | 6 reported sightings | 6.59% of all reports |
December | 5 reported sightings | 5.49% of all reports |
January | 5 reported sightings | 5.49% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 3.30% of all reports |
September | 3 reported sightings | 3.30% of all reports |
Kentucky 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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Sunday | 16 reported sightings | 17.58% of all reports |
Thursday | 16 reported sightings | 17.58% of all reports |
Monday | 15 reported sightings | 16.48% of all reports |
Saturday | 13 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Wednesday | 12 reported sightings | 13.19% of all reports |
Friday | 11 reported sightings | 12.09% of all reports |
Tuesday | 8 reported sightings | 8.79% of all reports |
Kentucky 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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03/05/20 | 6 reported sightings | 6.59% of all reports |
04/26/20 | 5 reported sightings | 5.49% of all reports |
05/21/20 | 4 reported sightings | 4.40% of all reports |
07/13/20 | 3 reported sightings | 3.30% of all reports |
03/23/20 | 3 reported sightings | 3.30% of all reports |
Kentucky 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 | 40 reported sightings | 43.96% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 17 reported sightings | 18.68% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 12 reported sightings | 13.19% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 10 reported sightings | 10.99% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 7 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 5 reported sightings | 5.49% of all reports |
All Kentucky Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Kentucky, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Kentucky
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Kentucky.