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)
Yelvington · KY, USA
VERY BEAUTIFUL. Could not believe what was happening. ******PLEASE CONTACT ME********
Lawrenceburg · KY, USA
I was living out in a rural area. I was getting ready for work. I heard a loud roaring like an airplane landing. I knew there wasn't
Crestwood · KY, USA
Red lights going toward a larger, stationery ,white light and then disappearing. I counted about 17 or so in 1982.
Land Between the Lakes · KY, USA
Black triangle hovers over western Kentucky wilderness.
Bowling Green · KY, USA
JFK FIGURE SEEN IN OUR WAL-MART
Mount Sterling · KY, USA
Close up view of UFO after unexplained loss of time. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Clark County (rural) · KY, USA
Driving on I-64 we realized that the terrain wasn't right and began checking mile markers which confirmed we had somehow missed both M
Sadieville · KY, USA
MY MOM & I WERE TRAVELING N ON I 75 from GEORGETOWN, KY TO SADIEVILLE WHEN WE NOTICED A A SINGLE WHITE LIGHT IN THE SKY SOME DISTANCE A
Elizaville · KY, USA
I was speeding through the town at about 70 MPH, the speed zone was 35 MPH. I looked in the rear view and saw a police car behind my c
Grand Rivers · KY, USA
Silent, lighted object passing leisurely overhead.
Louisville · KY, USA
I did not know how to report so i found this sight i am now 52 and most passegers are in there 68 -70.
Louisville · KY, USA
Definitely followed my car over 20 miles and shone lights, went way below the second loop of power line noiselessly
Louisville · KY, USA
DEFINITELY NOT FROM AROUND HERE!
Grand Rivers · KY, USA
Bright blue flash which lit up the night sky like a blue neon daylight. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD))
Campbellsville · KY, USA
08/15/79 Campbellsville Ky oval shaped 1 min. oval shaped ship moving slow in the sky 10/02/05
Clay City · KY, USA
Hovering sphere with flashing lights seen over a farm in Powell County, Kentucky.
Cumberland · KY, USA
Something raceing accross the sky up high with the stars and then it stopped. Changed directions we can not currently do.
Louisville · KY, USA
Second sighting of object in the Preston Hwy./Gilmore Lane area. This was the same silent, metallic, dome-shaped object sighted almost
Kentucky (somewhere in north central Ky on I-65) · KY, USA
I encountered about 90 minutes lost time. it haunts me
Greenriver Lake State Park · KY, USA
SMALL ROUND BRILLIENT GOLDEN MOVED ABOUT ALL BY ITSELF GAVE OFF NO DISCERNABLE LIGHT.IT FLASHED ON AND OFF.
Sadieville · KY, USA
THIS IS FROM MEMORY BUT POLICE REPORTS MAY BE ACCESSED TO CONFIRM THE EVENT. AN ELDERLY NEIGHBOR & HIS WIFE AWOKE ONE SUNDAY AM TO FIND
Midway/Marion · KY, USA
My friend and I seen this square ufo at my fluorspar mine, it was about 40+40+40ft. it did not have any lights on it, my lights reflect
Lancaster · KY, USA
Well I didn't know there was a place you can put sightings. Yes I was seven and it was right around Christmas time , we lived in some a
Louisville · KY, USA
HBCCUFO CANADIAN REPORT: Pilot Sighting Of Unusual Light.
Hazard · KY, USA
Probable abduction