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)
Melbourne · KY, USA
flashing lights spotted near Ohio River
Barbourville · KY, USA
Very slow moving fromwest to east red,blue,white and green lights. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly Sirius. PD))
Maysville · KY, USA
strange lights over maysville ky
Frankfort · KY, USA
Franklin/Scott County Kentucky Round Object With Red, Blue, and White Lights ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Sirius?? PD))
Louisville · KY, USA
Two metallic spheres hovering in sky then vanishing as jet plane passes nearby.
Maysville · KY, USA
Objects were too bright and their aerodynamics were out a place
Reed · KY, USA
It deffinately was not like any plane i have seen...
Mount Sterling · KY, USA
Illuminated object shaped like a bus hovering silently above a communications tower
Lexington · KY, USA
I was walking down the street with my dog, and I noticed my small dog that never barks started to growl and spasm uncontrollabley. Then
Walton · KY, USA
We saw a dark round fast moving object engulfed by fire/plasma that vanished
Simpsonville · KY, USA
I was travelling to work on Interstate 64 going West towards Louisville when I decided to snap a picture of the beutiful gray sky sunse
Henderson · KY, USA
it was 9 15 in the morning snd i looked outside the window of my high school and 2 other students saw it. and then it quickly dissipear
Fort Thomas · KY, USA
Hovering object with eight lights
Louisville · KY, USA
Two metallic shperes hovering in broad daylight then vanishing
Oak Grove · KY, USA
From interstate highway, we saw an aircraft with 6 or 7 white lights changed shape and direction quickly.
Wallingford · KY, USA
Videotaped unidentified object floating in front of the moon during the lunar eclipse.
Winchester · KY, USA
semi transparent triangular sighting
Fort Knox · KY, USA
Black Triangle sighted over my house in Fort Knox during Fourth of July!!!
Lawrenceburg · KY, USA
FAST BRIGHT ORANGE LIGHT
Taylorsville · KY, USA
2 bright white lights, COMPLETELY SILENT, 80 meters above ground, travels slow or it can hover in one spot.
Richmond · KY, USA
orbs in the kentucky sky
Morehead · KY, USA
We saw an intense light in the night sky on 06-06-2007 shaped like a cross… ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus or Jupiter?? PD))
Versailles · KY, USA
thought it was a shooting star but it just stoped and turned orange
Burgin · KY, USA
Orange disk in Kentucky sky. ((NUFORC Note: Venus. PD))
Popping Rock · KY, USA
Green orb spotted in Rowan County Kentucky that turned on a dime