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)
Dodge City · KS, USA
Since i live here 4 yrs. I seen cigars in groups. Alot of white stars and then change. ((anonymous report))
Russell to Hays · KS, USA
Formation of 25-30 red lights. ((anonymous report))
Paxico · KS, USA
8 red blinking lights in a horizontal line, evenly spaced, heading in a west/northwest direction, lasted 15-20 minutes
Topeka · KS, USA
Red lights in line formation, hovering over west Topeka. ((anonymous report))
Phillipsburg · KS, USA
12 red flashing lights, traveling slowly, with a heading in SW KANSAS.
Kansas City · KS, USA
Thin cigar horizontal red pulsating light flying south over downtown Kansas City MO.
Pratt · KS, USA
Very load roar similar to a jet. Sounds shook all the Windows in the house for about 1 minute. Could hear the sound for about 2.5 minut
Paola · KS, USA
Im sitting by my window smoking and happen to notice that im seeing an oddly number of lights here lately some go some stay but noticed
Kingman · KS, USA
Saw a bright green orb dropping from the sky, at an angle to the east; lasted few seconds and then disappeared.
Cunningham · KS, USA
Greens cloudy oval size of a full moon
Merriam · KS, USA
White cigar-shaped craft above Merriam, KS.
Wichita · KS, USA
Not a shooting star or an airplane.
Overland Park · KS, USA
Dozens of pinpoint lights in random formation traveling in the same direction at various speeds. (("Starlink" satellites??))
Minneola · KS, USA
Bright multicolored craft moving across the sky.
Lincoln · KS, USA
Large Bright round orange lights with Bright white connecting lights in some triangle or pyramid shape that hovered and disappeared
Lawrence · KS, USA
Silver disk over horizon, north of Lawrence, KS hovered, tilted, and disappeared
Gardner · KS, USA
Driving to work I looked up and saw one big bright light with something faint above it. Zipping around this bright light were two red r
Garden City · KS, USA
To the N, there was multiple bright flashes on, and above the clouds. It was not lightning. ((anonymous report))
Prairie Village · KS, USA
Strobing light swooping from one position to another at random distances; intercepted by a different light. ((anonymous report))
Girard · KS, USA
Big orange light glowing in the woods at night witnessed by my mother and I. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))
Atchison · KS, USA
Orange red light moving slowly in the sky. ((anonymous report))
Lawrence · KS, USA
I looked up and saw an object move from West to East. The single ball of light became three balls of light. They left in three opposite
Independence · KS, USA
Bright starshaped objects began moving at random, brightly illuminating and becoming 3 lights, with the other 2 the lesser lights
Dodge City · KS, USA
Approx. 4:00-4:45 am, I witnessed a large, seemingly round, orange orb in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus? PD))
Toronto · KS, USA
On Sun. night, 6-11-17, I was observing the sky while on vacation at 11:00pm. I was looking directly overhead when a green light appear