UFO Sightings in Kentucky
1,586 UFO sightings reported in Kentucky since 1943, peaking in 2013 (98 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 1,586
- Span
- 1943–2022
- Peak year
- 2013 (98 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1943–2022 · peak 2013 (98 reports)
Top cities in Kentucky
Louisville
1950–2021 · peak 2020 (17 reports)
Lexington
1966–2021 · peak 2014 (10 reports)
Bowling Green
1982–2022 · peak 2013 (6 reports)
Richmond
1995–2022 · peak 2011 (6 reports)
Owensboro
1943–2020 · peak 2014 (4 reports)
Florence
1999–2018 · peak 2011 (4 reports)
Paducah
1993–2020 · peak 2008 (3 reports)
Morehead
1968–2020 · peak 2008 (4 reports)
Elizabethtown
1995–2018 · peak 1995 (3 reports)
Ashland
1958–2020 · peak 2011 (3 reports)
Frankfort
2007–2021 · peak 2014 (7 reports)
Winchester
1967–2022 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Hopkinsville
1956–2022 · peak 2005 (2 reports)
Franklin
1974–2022 · peak 2021 (8 reports)
Bardstown
1974–2021 · peak 2019 (3 reports)
Nicholasville
1999–2020 · peak 1999 (4 reports)
Murray
2003–2016 · peak 2013 (3 reports)
Hazard
1970–2011 · peak 1986 (2 reports)
Pikeville
1950–2019 · peak 2014 (3 reports)
Scottsville
1965–2013 · peak 1965 (2 reports)
Corinth · KY, USA
Two objects, one possibly a meteroite, the other object moved at same speed stopped in mid flight and went back the way it came.
Hopkinsville · KY, USA
Extra star seen moving across the big dipper and then fading.
Eddyville · KY, USA
Orb shaped light, steady orange/yellow color, 250+- ft. high, steady speed hoz-hoz, UFO to witnesses.
London · KY, USA
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Louisville · KY, USA
red light, flying above the fireworks but under the clouds.....
Louisville · KY, USA
3 orange fireball crafts traveling at an enormous speed but very high, meeting up and vanishing.
London · KY, USA
Orange UFO passing or hovering through London Kentucky on July 4th
Florence · KY, USA
Bright orange light seen over boone county
Fort Wright · KY, USA
Orange orb over Cincinnati
Georgetown · KY, USA
Fast moving ball of fire that we saw from our back porch while lying in the hammock.
Somerset · KY, USA
Round, sound-less yellow light seen moving at slow speed then disappering.
Paducah · KY, USA
UFO spotted in rural Paducah, Ky neighborhood
Louisville · KY, USA
Blk Triangle craft mimics aircraft in Metro louisville.
Paris · KY, USA
Saw a red and orange fireball traveling slow speed wasnt coming down it was going up then it looked like the fire went out and it disap
South Shore · KY, USA
Two lights moving at a pace that had to be other than a ballon without sound.
Wilmore · KY, USA
Bright white light flying over wilmore Kentucky
Louisville · KY, USA
Neon green burning light
Dawson Springs · KY, USA
we were looking northwest and a triangular form was moving in a circle slowly , there was only 3 lights and 2 of the lights disappeared
Bowling Green · KY, USA
Flying disk-shaped object seen traveling in a straight line
Louisville · KY, USA
Bright objects and flashes over Louisville,Kentucky.
Mount Washington · KY, USA
Flashing multi-colored lights appear to be in triangle shape form hovered for 45 mins then disappeared.
Louisville · KY, USA
Two crafts Hover over Neighborhoods
Williamsburg (2 miles north of; I-75) · KY, USA
Sudden appearance & equally abrupt disappearance of illuminated & extremely fast UFO flying in the night sky above I-75 South.
Paris · KY, USA
very bright flashing light streaking over Paris KY, disappeared before reaching horizon
Bowling Green · KY, USA
We saw flying fireballs in the sky.