“I noticed them — I’m a noticer, I’m always noticing things,” the country star explained.

Kacey Musgraves freaks out about the ‘craziest f---ing orb UFO experience’ during flight

"I noticed them — I'm a noticer, I'm always noticing things," the country star explained.

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Kacey Musgraves in Los Angeles in February. Credit:

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Kacey Musgraves can't believe her eyes.

The "High Horse" singer announced that she and her manager witnessed no fewer than three spherical UFOs during a flight from Fort Worth, Texas, to Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday night.

"We just had the craziest f---ing orb UFO experience," the singer shared in a video on her Instagram Stories on Friday. "We just watched these orbs, there was three of 'em. I noticed them — I'm a noticer, I'm always noticing things. I was about to lay down and take a nap, and I saw these lights that caught my eye and just didn't look normal. And I watched them for a minute, and they definitely were trailing each other."

Musgraves explained that her close encounter began "about 50,000 feet up," and that she watched the shiny orbs for about 45 minutes after she noticed them around Little Rock, Ark.

Kacey Musgraves in Inglewood, Calif., on Oct. 3, 2024.

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"These orbs were not moving like any craft that we can control," Musgraves insisted. "They were intermittently coming and going, forming triangle patterns. They were kind of an orangish color. Sometimes they would get extremely bright and change color, change size."

The "Slow Burn" singer also said that the pilots weren't particularly fazed by the phenomenon.

"We're like, 'Uh, did y'all just see something weird?' And [the pilots] were like, 'Three orbs off in the sky?'" she remembered.  "Both pilots were laughing kind of, and they were like, 'yeah, we've seen these every single night, and all the other pilots are seeing them too, and nobody knows what they are.'"

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She also noted that one of the pilots said he saw the same orbs while flying in Dallas, and the other pilot reported the same thing in Dallas. "So yeah. S--- is weird," she said. "But I'm here for it. I am open to it, I'm here for it. But yeah, they were like changing direction with us, they were following the plane."

Musgraves also shared video footage that she took of the mysterious spheres, though she recognized that it might not be enough to convert skeptics into true believers. "You could have the best, most high-quality footage of something and no one would believe it anyway," she said. "It looks like I filmed them on a f---ing toaster. But that's the quality. That's what we're working with. I have an iPhone 17, but it was just hard to focus because they were far off and it's nighttime."

Kacey Musgraves on Instagram.

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This is not the first time that Musgraves has purported to witness supernatural phenomena. In a 2015 interview with *Us Weekly*, she revealed, "I've seen several UFOs." (She also said that she "once went on a bigfoot hunt," but she "didn't find him.")

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Musgraves elaborated on her prior UFO experience, which she said occurred in Mexico, in a 2019 interview with NME.

"I noticed something hovering above the corner of the hotel. In the night sky it kind of looked like the underbelly of a bird. You couldn't really see what it was," she said. "I was very confused by it so I said: 'Y'all, what's that?' We all watched it for a minute and then it changed shape into an X-pattern, like a windmill shape. It was so weird! We were like: 'Oh s---, that is so not a bird!' We watched the thing for a good 10 or 15 minutes. Then it started glowing and doing things that nothing normal would do. It was crazy."

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