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)
Pittsburg · KS, USA
A witness in Pittsburg, Kansas reported a full triangular object with a white light at each corner, moving silently and faster than typical aircraft, during a thirty-second sighting in August 1972.
Park City · KS, USA
A witness in Park City, Kansas reported a saucer-shaped object hovering overhead while standing in the middle of the street, during a brief five-to-ten-second sighting in July 1972.
Highway · KS, USA
This very real sighting took place in 1972. My ex husband and I were followed by a relatively small UFO which lower itself all the way
Osowatomie · KS, USA
THIS SIGHTING WAS REAL. THE SMALL CRAFT DESCENDED AND FOLLOWED OUR CAR. THE CRAFT WAS AT THE SAME ALTITUDE OF MY WINDOW ON THE PASANGER
Liberal · KS, USA
Witnesses in Liberal, Kansas reported a cigar-shaped object low over a nearby lake following July 4th fireworks in 1971, during a sighting lasting fifteen to twenty minutes.
Havensville · KS, USA
A witness near Havensville, Kansas, described star-like lights darting around the night sky in February 1971, an observation corroborated by a grandparent, lasting about twenty minutes.
Baldwin City · KS, USA
A witness near Baldwin City, Kansas, described a point of light making an instant ninety-degree turn in August 1969, a maneuver lasting about eight seconds that seemed to defy normal flight.
Kansas Ciy · KS, USA
A witness in Kansas City, Kansas reported a deep red light that changed into two larger white spheres before reverting to red, in an observation reported to have lasted around 27 hours in August 1968.
Cedar Point · KS, USA
A witness in Cedar Point, Kansas, described this as one of three light-related encounters they had experienced, with this particular sighting lasting about five minutes in September 1967.
Abilene (near) · KS, USA
Blimp shaped ufo, with loss of time.
Lansing · KS, USA
Witnesses in Lansing, Kansas, reported two sets of lights blinking alternately in the sky during a five-minute sighting in August 1967.
DeSoto · KS, USA
An anonymous witness in DeSoto, Kansas, reported a fast-moving light traveling in straight-line paths across the northern sky during a brief ten-second sighting in June 1967.
Kansas city · KS, USA
Witnesses in Wyandotte County, Kansas, near Kansas City, reported an object resembling an aircraft that appeared suspended motionless in midair, in a sighting reported for 1967.
Lansing · KS, USA
Silent light darts to avoid collision.
Towards · KS, USA
Craft hovered over a large stand of trees on the far side of a pasture. Trees seemed to be pushed downward from a force coming from the
Forbes AFB · KS, USA
I was in a van on the base after working on C-130 aircraft that night. I remember it was very cold and were in the van smoking cigarett
Great Bend · KS, USA
White cube that glowed like a lightbulb
Leavenworth · KS, USA
As I was looking at the near horizon there was clearly a strip of flashing white lights moving very slowly horizontally for five to ten
Hutchinson · KS, USA
A witness in Hutchinson, Kansas reported a triangular object that made no sound and did not move at speeds typical of known aircraft, in a sighting lasting five to 10 minutes in June 1965.
Wellington · KS, USA
Red glow from unseen object.
Kansas City\Lenexa · Kansas area, KS, USA
some type of aircraft
Emporia · KS, USA
Witnesses in Emporia, Kansas reported a rectangular object in May 1963, with the sighting lasting about 60 seconds. No further details were recorded.
Wellington · KS, USA
Witnesses near Wellington, Kansas reported an unidentified object during an encounter in August 1962, with the sighting said to have lasted 30 to 40 minutes.
Kansas City · KS, USA
In 1960, two witnesses in Kansas City, Kansas, reported a ball of light rising over the horizon, then speeding up and vanishing, an event they said occurred on three occasions.
Wichita · KS, USA
In 1960, a witness in Wichita, Kansas, reported an oval-shaped object that made only a low humming sound, even as it took off, during a sighting lasting about 20 minutes.