UFO Sightings in Kansas
1,110 UFO sightings reported in Kansas since 1931, peaking in 2020 (71 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 1,110
- Span
- 1931–2022
- Peak year
- 2020 (71 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1931–2022 · peak 2020 (71 reports)
Top cities in Kansas
Wichita
1956–2022 · peak 2019 (13 reports)
Topeka
1977–2021 · peak 2014 (9 reports)
Overland Park
1974–2020 · peak 1999 (4 reports)
Olathe
1995–2020 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Kansas City
1954–2021 · peak 2007 (5 reports)
Lawrence
1985–2021 · peak 2001 (5 reports)
Salina
1973–2021 · peak 2014 (3 reports)
Leavenworth
1965–2020 · peak 2010 (5 reports)
Lenexa
1990–2020 · peak 2012 (3 reports)
Shawnee
1999–2022 · peak 2012 (3 reports)
Hutchinson
1965–2020 · peak 2006 (3 reports)
Pratt
2000–2020 · peak 2004 (3 reports)
Pittsburg
1972–2015 · peak 2015 (2 reports)
Dodge City
2000–2022 · peak 2017 (3 reports)
Manhattan
2004–2019 · peak 2019 (2 reports)
Colby
2005–2018 · peak 2012 (2 reports)
El Dorado
1998–2020 · peak 2007 (2 reports)
Newton
1998–2020 · peak 2014 (2 reports)
Emporia
1963–2014 · peak 2014 (2 reports)
Gardner
2000–2020 · peak 2013 (2 reports)
Ft. Scott (traveling north out of) · KS, USA
daughter & grandaughter while driving saw 5 craft in tight formation playing tag.1 followed them home where i went out & watced it hove
Wichita · KS, USA
I cannot call this a report of a flying object...it is more a report of a light in the sky. I was standing in my front yard, facing Sou
Kansas City · KS, USA
Orange object over city.
Augusta · KS, USA
Object was at 45 degrees above southern horizon. Being stationary for 5 mins. and then executed some right angle maneuvers. Focal dista
Ellis · KS, USA
UFO shased off by fighter jets
Ellis · KS, USA
first seen as possible meteor, then fireball, then satellite like moving south. i witnessed it turn a 180% turn, stop, then move in sev
Augusta · KS, USA
Best described as a reverse shooting star. A point of light streaking upward quite a distance to the east of me.
Paola · KS, USA
Shape shifter, Cigar shaped craft.
Kansas City · KS, USA
I saw what I intially thought to be a helium baloon rise up in a gradual fashion and hover at about 3-5000ft,it appeared to change shap
LaCygne · KS, USA
I have a video and still pictures
Olathe · KS, USA
Traveling W to pick up son from school. Saw extraordinarily bright orb slowly traveling N in straight line. Size was about diameter of
Lawrence · KS, USA
Pulled out of Checker's parking lot, (grocery store)onto 23rd St. Driving East until I came onto 23rd & Ohio St. Present with my wife,
Overland Park · KS, USA
Green fireball with trail headed N-NW in Eastern KS - arching downward - resembled size and speed of a single discharge from a roman ca
Morrowville · KS, USA
Fast, noiseless, highly reflective object seen
Wichita · KS, USA
oblongular type object in western sky. appeared to be heading south, then stopped for a long period of time and sped off northwestardl
Kansas City/Emporia (countryside between) · KS, USA
This is not a vehicle but a most unusual event in the sky. It is the appearance of wide, transluscent line coming out of the western
Seneca · KS, USA
slowly moved then speed up horizonaly rapidly, then darted verticly
Wichita · KS, USA
IT DISAPPEARED INTO THE VOID
Overland Park · KS, USA
My brother and I saw a circle that moved, made a trail, and disappeared in a minute.
Shawnee · KS, USA
Matte Black Spiky Ball, Sea Urchin-like Floating Object
Wichita · KS, USA
The sky was still blue. I noticed several commercial airliners in the sky. In front of one there was a star-like object.
Wichita · KS, USA
A silver disk seen hovering over Mc Connel AFB
Overland Park · KS, USA
Craft flew out of the east at about 600 feet moving west and then turning to the north (not a regular flight pattern for this area for
Bonner Springs (XXXX Kreider Rd) · KS, USA
About 4:20 a.m. Tuesday morning in the Southeast sky a bright green light caught my attention from my livingroom window. I saw one lum
Hesston · KS, USA
Triangle shaped with a very bright light on each corner with a flashing red beacon in the middle.