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)
Stanton · KY, USA
Cigar shaped craft hovering over a tree line approximately a hundred yards from me and seventy five feet off the ground.
Georgetown · KY, USA
Blue light on I-75 falls from sky then disappears.
Louisville (near: I-64 · Exit 113), KY, USA
Attached is the rendering of the UFO we saw last night on HWY 64 traveling east near exit 113.
Harrodsburg · KY, USA
Lights appear in the night sky during very strange and loud sound resonating in the distance.
Louisville · KY, USA
Bright green orb near Lyndon Lane while riding in the car with a friend.
Lexington · KY, USA
Single bright light the size of a large star moving faster than jet with no sound.
Louisville · KY, USA
This object was spherical, almost looked like a circular disk with a bright glint on the edge of this disk seen thru a 8" Dobsonian.
Ekron · KY, USA
Orange round light object flying near ekron, ky at a high rate of speed.
Burnside · KY, USA
Gold lines with red and white lights in between lines in center leaned like a ladder.
I-24 80 to 74 mile marker · KY, USA
3 oval light size 2 1/2 times of a 747 south of I-24, between 80 and 74 mile marker; 9:25-9:30 pm.
Leitchfield · KY, USA
Two bright lights.
Grant County · KY, USA
((HOAX??)) UFO.
Henderson · KY, USA
Black triangle with bright lights at the corners and the turbine sounds, but very very slow almost hovering.
Owensboro · KY, USA
Red orange objects seen flying over Owensboro, KY.
Kiambu · KY, USA
Hovering light.
Owensboro · KY, USA
Fireballs were over Owensboro, KY, late last night at 10:30 p.m..
Petersburg · KY, USA
Huge orb like object in picture not visable to naked eye.
Louisville · KY, USA
Going around in circle and then coming togather, as if the were dancing over and over same. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising light? PD))
Cold Springs · KY, USA
Triangular-shape object with 2 bright front lights and several multi-colored dim lights hovered above houses, then slowly moved on.
Georgetown · KY, USA
Huge circular light formation.
Lexington · KY, USA
Fast moving grey mass spherical not defined hot looking orange aura bottom edge no lights complete stop and direction change 3 times.
Louisville · KY, USA
V-shaped ufo blue lights.
Louisville · KY, USA
At 6:22 am, saw a ufo over the Brooks Exit, going to Shephersville, KY. It was v shaped blue lights.
Somerset · KY, USA
A ufo flying from cloud to cloud.
Catlettsburg (Louisa area) · KY, USA
Circle shaped object size of a large star in the louisa, Ky area 9/27/14 at around 1130 pm. Several different colors. Erratic.