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)
Louisville · KY, USA
@Approx,10:19pm/May 13-2016. Saw from r/side of sky, star like object, began going across sky to left. Behind had bluish green trail.
Hazel Green · KY, USA
Huge black triangle that was 500 yards across with 3 white lights and 1 faint red light on the bottom with strobbing lights on the bac
Morehead · KY, USA
Flashing red and white lights spaced apart in a triangle form. Sight in all seasons even when there are no stars visable.
Louisville · KY, USA
Approx 21:40 4/13/2016 bright white/clear orb.
Ricetown · KY, USA
Blinking globular object glowing with orange/red light observed in forest from my back deck a second night in a row.
Somerset · KY, USA
Dark but shiny round object observed hovering midday.
Lexington · KY, USA
Cylinder shaped flying object flying low with blue lights coming from bottom.
Murray · KY, USA
A disc fly very low, no sound 6 white lights across the center and multipal colors lights between the white lights, going SW.
Bowling Green · KY, USA
2 orange-red star like light hovering subtle maneuvering up down right left zig zag.
Meadow Creek · KY, USA
9 red-orange spheres witnessed by two people flying overhead from southwest to northeast in rural SE Kentucky.
Jackson · KY, USA
Saw a triangular object way high up fly back and forth, stop, then start back again multiple times.
Erlanger · KY, USA
Red triangular shape bouncing and hovering in the sky.
Florence · KY, USA
Several large red moving objects appeared in a constellation pattern moving throughout the sky over a 10 min. duration.
Corinth · KY, USA
Funny looking plane. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly an a/c reflecting sunlight?? PD))
Jenkins · KY, USA
Formation Re-Fueling UFO.
Trenton · KY, USA
The three bright solid red lights changed to one solid purple light moving in several directions.
Thornton · KY, USA
It was a cold and clear night with lots of stars visible. Very large solid triangular, looked black in color and had bright white and r
Whitesburg · KY, USA
Black triangle over Whitesburg in Letcher County Kentucky.
Bowling Green · KY, USA
Green fireball shoot thru sky.
Russell Springs · KY, USA
Strange lights seen in Russell County.
Oakland · KY, USA
15 min bright light that tried to break apart vanished when airplane approached and light has been seen multiple times.
Owensboro · KY, USA
Spotted a triangle-shaped set of lights in the clouds.
Paris-Winchester · KY, USA
Strange urge upon awakening during early morning hours to find a colorful light orb the size of a softball outside my window.
Winchester · KY, USA
Blue/Purple light in field off Clintonville Road.
Shepherdsville · KY, USA
UFO sighted SE of Shepherdsville, Kentucky, mornings of OC thru NO. ((NUFORC Note: Planets? PD))