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Kacey Musgraves has a message for skeptics who doubt her recent UFO experience.
The country singer, 37, posted videos on her Instagram Story Thursday in which she detailed the “craziest… orb, UFO experience” she had on a recent flight.
Shortly after, science writer and self-identified “UFO analyst” Mick West took to X to debunk the patterns shown in her video as satellite flares, writing: “The @KaceyMusgraves UFO sighting video has been identified by @flarkey as being 100% consistent with Starlink horizon flares.
“Her plane was in the flare zone for the entire flight, and the flares appeared in the right position, moving and fading at the same speed as seen on the video. If she could share the exact time the video was recorded, then we could identify the exact satellites.”
However, the “Space Cowboy” singer didn’t seem too interested in West’s take. “Hey Mick if you zoom way into the videos you can also see a really clear angle of Bigfoot riding your mom,” she wrote.
Kacey Musgraves fired back at a science writer who questioned her UFO experience (Getty Images)
West did not respond to Musgraves’s zinger.
The Grammy-winning singer, whose Instagram handle is ironically named spaceykacey, has not provided further update on her out-of-this-world experience, which she said occurred during a flight from Fort Worth, Texas, to Nashville, Tennessee.
“I’ve seen many crazy things,” she said in the video. “I’ve seen fire burning in the sky, things that I can’t explain, so this is not the first time.”
She continued, “I was about to lay down and take a nap, and I saw these lights that caught my eye that just didn’t look normal. And I watched them for a minute.”
Musgraves described the lights as initially appearing to be an orange-ish color, but said they would become “extremely bright and chance color, change size.”
“These orbs were not moving like any craft that we can control,” she said. “They were intermittently coming and going, forming triangle patterns. The craziest thing is… so they were following us from about the Little Rock area. That’s when I noticed them all the way to Nashville.”
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Kacey Musgraves filmed UFOs following her flight to Nashville earlier this week (Kacey Musgraves/Instagram)
The “Deeper Well” singer said that once the plane landed in Nashville, the pilots exited the cockpit and laughed as they told passengers on the plane that “we’ve seen these every single night, and all the other pilots are seeing them too. And nobody knows what they are.”
Musgraves joked, “S*** is weird, but I’m here for it! I am open to it, I’m here for it.”
The singer’s story comes after former President Barack Obama appeared to confirm the existence of extraterrestrials in a February interview, but backtracked shortly after and said he knew of “no evidence” to prove it.