Kacey Musgraves Claims She Spotted Three UFOs On Flight From Texas To Tennessee

Kacey Musgraves had a very out-of-the-ordinary moment on a flight recently, and now she’s opening up about what she saw with proof of unexplained objects spotted in the sky that she’s calling the “craziest f**king orb UFO experience.”

The country star admits she’s seen plenty of “crazy” and unexplainable things in her life, but this encounter is one she won’t forget anytime soon. In a new Instagram story, Musgraves shared that she was flying from Fort Worth to Nashville with one of her managers when something outside her window immediately caught her attention as she was getting ready to take a nap. According to her, she saw a set of lights that “just didn’t look normal.”

“We just watched these orbs, there were three of them,” she recalls. “I watched them for a minute and they were definitely trailing each other…they were about 50,000 feet up.”

The Grammy-winning star says she first noticed the orbs while flying over Little Rock, Arkansas and continued to keep an eye on them for about 45 minutes. She was able to catch some of the objects on video, however the quality of her iPhone 17 made it difficult to clearly make out the phenomenon.

“It looks like I filmed them on a f–king toaster, but that’s the quality we’re working with,” she noted. “It was hard to focus because they were far off and it’s nighttime.”

She already ruled out that it could have been any other normal aircraft, just based off the flight patterns and the abnormally colored lights that they were giving off.

“These orbs were not moving like any craft that we can control. They were intermittently coming and going, forming triangle patterns,” she explained. “Sometimes they would get extremely bright and change color, change size.”

🚨 Country music artist Kacey Musgraves filmed three orb UFOs that followed her plane from Arkansas to Tennessee

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Musgraves goes on to say was that the “craziest thing” was that the orbs continued to follow them all the way from Little Rock to their destination in Nashville.

“We were like oh my God this is insane.”

Once the plane had safely landed, she finally got the chance to ask the pilots of they had witnessed the same thing.

“We’re like, did y’all just see something weird?” she asked.

Strange enough, both pilots recalled seeing the exact same three orbs.

“They were laughing kind of and were like ‘yeah, we have seen these every single night and all the other pilots are seeing them too and nobody knows what they are.’”

The story doesn’t end there because she says when she got home, the “Golden Hour” singer saw yet another strange orb. This just adds to her growing list of “strange and unexplainable” experiences. However Musgraves seems to just have accepted that she continues to have these moments in her life and now wonders if anyone else has similar experiences.

“S–t is weird, but I’m here for it. I’m open to it, I’m here for it.”

She ended her message by saying, “Keep it weird, y’all,” before adding the video and photo proof she attempted to catch from the plane window. The clips were pitch black except for the lights eliminating from the city below and the individual particles in the sky.

Aside from the orbs that captured her focus momentarily, Kacey Musgraves has been busy promoting her new album, Middle of Nowhere, which she just announced will be arriving May 1st, 2026. She has already shared a look into the project through the first single, “Dry Spell”.

Fans can expect to hear stories rooted in Texas and inspired by a chapter of reflection and clarity that she found after a breakup, resulting in her “leaning intentionally into open space and traditional western elements.” The collection of 13 tracks also includes collaborations with Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings, and Gregory Alan Isakov.

Middle of Nowhere will follow 2024’s Deeper Well, which earned Kacey Musgraves her biggest debut sales week, landing at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart and her fifth No. 1 debut on the Top Country Albums chart.

“…I became so at ease with being in the “middle of nowhere” in many senses and sitting in the un-comfort of the undefined,” she says of the time period that inspired the album. “I had a lot of time for creative ambling and leaning into myself in different ways; horses, humor, writing with my early collaborators again, and living out my very simple, inspired life between Texas, Tennessee, and Mexico.”