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)
Lexington · KY, USA
Multiple dots moving away from venus. (("Starlink" satellites??))((anonymous))
Independence · KY, USA
We saw 15 to 20 lights flying in a perfect line. ((Starlink satellites))
Nicholasville · KY, USA
3 adults watched multiple star-intensity lights move south to north in western sky a couple of degrees below Venus. No sound, moved in
La Grange · KY, USA
Numerous balls of white, and some red lights slowly moving in and around other and other stationary lights.
Paris · KY, USA
Circular shape lights all around.
Frankfort · KY, USA
I saw a black sphere in the night sky. Before, and during lights behind the clouds that really didn't seem to move so I thought ok it's
Louisville · KY, USA
Mutable glowing objects in sky following each other. (("Starlink" satellites??))
Bedford · KY, USA
There where lights coming across the sky in perfect formation at the exact same distance apart. ((Starlink satellites))
Parksville · KY, USA
A row of white lights flying in a line and then disappearing. ((Starlink satellites))
Bedford · KY, USA
Were seeing crazy lights in night sky. ((Starlink satellites))
Mt Sterling · KY, USA
A string of aircraft ((Starlink satellites))
Smilax · KY, USA
A line of 5 orbs that disappeared!
Smilax · KY, USA
A line of 5 orbs that disappeared! ((Starlink satellites??))
Benton · KY, USA
Strange light in KY.
Cromwell · KY, USA
It was as fireball along with a tail of fire falling across the sky with a downward angle from West to East lasting perhaps 2-3 seconds
Danville · KY, USA
In the Western sky, witnessed a falling "orbish" "soft white" white light falling to Earth, lasted maybe ten second
Morehead · KY, USA
It was your typical flying saucer shape with many many bright lights so many lights it look like a city
Barbourville · KY, USA
There was a light around it
Ashland · KY, USA
Starlike uniform sped and size. ((Starlink satellites))
Louisville · KY, USA
I woke up to a bright light I thought it was the moon. I looked at it out up more moved the the size shrunk and dissaperad
London · KY, USA
extremely bright ball of light looks like a star or planet. ((Venus??))
Hopkinsville · KY, USA
Three orange flying objects flying in a stationary position formed into a triangle.
Burlington · KY, USA
I saw an object fly past my airport in a weird Direction and I watched it make a turn that was just not possible by a plane or helicopt
Hazel Green · KY, USA
3 black triangles in formation flying low in a southeasterly direction, make no sound at all.
Lexington · KY, USA
Size of a XL drone with a light bar that strobes red/white