Kacey Musgraves is an American country singer-songwriter from Texas whose album Golden Hour won the Grammy for album of the year in 2019. In April 2026 she drew wide attention in UFO circles when she posted phone video and a spoken account of three lights she said followed her plane through the night sky, a sighting that skeptical analysts quickly attributed to Starlink satellite flares. That flight is her one notable entry in the UFO record.

Musgraves was born Kacey Lee Musgraves on August 21, 1988, in Sulphur Springs, Texas, and grew up in Golden. She began writing songs at eight, placed seventh on the fifth season of Nashville Star in 2007 and later signed with Mercury Nashville. Same Trailer Different Park (2013) won the Grammy for best country album, and Golden Hour (2018), which included the Grammy-winning single "Space Cowboy," won best country album and album of the year. She followed it with Star-Crossed (2021), Deeper Well (2024) and Middle of Nowhere, released on May 1, 2026, three weeks after the flight.

According to NewsNation, the sighting took place on a Thursday-night flight from Fort Worth, Texas, to Nashville, and she described it in Instagram Stories soon afterward. Country Now reported that she and one of her managers first noticed three lights near Little Rock, Arkansas, and watched them for about 45 minutes as they appeared to follow the plane to Nashville. She estimated they were about 50,000 feet up and said they formed triangle patterns and changed color and size, and that they did not move like any craft people control. Her iPhone 17 footage was dark and hard to make out. She said the pilots told her after landing that they had seen the same objects "every single night," that other pilots had too, and that no one knew what they were.

TMZ reposted her videos and the story spread quickly. Ryan Graves, founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace, replied to her publicly that his group works with pilots on the issue and that "it's happening every day around the world." On the Metabunk forum, the analyst known as flarkey modeled the likely route and argued that the plane had been inside a band where Starlink satellites produce horizon flares for the whole flight. Mick West then wrote that her video was "100% consistent with Starlink horizon flares" and asked for the exact recording time so the satellites could be identified, though forum members acknowledged that the specific aircraft had not been confirmed. Musgraves answered West with a mocking post invoking Bigfoot rather than taking up the analysis.

The episode put one of country music's best-known singers, who has long played on a cosmic image with "Space Cowboy" and her "spaceykacey" Instagram handle, at the center of the 2026 debate over pilot reports of orb-like lights. Her video became one of the most discussed celebrity sightings of that spring, and the Starlink flare explanation became the standard skeptical reading of it.