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Kentucky police have arrested a man dressed as a clown lurking in a wooded area amid a wave of clown reports in at least six US states.

Jonathan Martin, 20, was charged with wearing a mask in a public place and disorderly conduct in Middlesboro.

He was found at about 0100 EST (0600 GMT) on Friday in "full clown costume" and mask crouching among trees by an apartment complex, according to police.

Recent reports of clowns trying to lure children into woods have sparked alarm.

Police have warned individuals against dressing up in clown costumes, adding it could lead to criminal charges.

"Dressing as a clown and driving, walking or standing in public can create a dangerous situation for you and others," police in nearby Barbourville, Kentucky,said in a statement online.

"While dressing up is not, in and of itself against the law, doing so in public and thereby creating an unnecessary sense of alarm is illegal."

Why are clowns scary?

Alleged clown encounters have been reported in recent weeks in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky.

But the recent wave of creepy clown sightings has also led to a string of false reports to both police and on social media.

Police in Annapolis, Maryland, recently found reports of students being scared by clowns on the way to school to be untrue.

A 24-year-old man was charged with making false reports in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after he told police a clown knocked on his window.

Meanwhile, an 11-year-old girl was arrested in Athens, Georgia, for bringing a knife to school because she was scared by social media reports that clowns were attacking children.

Mr Martin's arrest comes as Kentucky residents have reported sightings of a clown matching the description of his costume.

A photo posted on Facebook on Wednesday showed a clown in Waco, Kentucky, dressed in a similar black-and-white costume.

Mr Martin's clown costume is similar to a masked individual's in Waco, Kentucky

Goober stated: source post

People started reposting clown sightings in the Carolinas. Now, it's spread to Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. 

Is it a hoax? People also think it's to promote Rob Zombie's remake of It. 

But would that go as far as trying to convince kids to follow you to your car?

On instagram, there were a couple captions explaining that their kids had a lockdown at school because there had been a sighting nearby. 

 Clowns R Jeffree Star. 

There's probably decent cause to be concerned about someone masking their identity in public, with all of the #randomshootings that have been happening.

If I seen a person with a ski mask walking down the street, I would immediately leave the vicinity. A red nose, face-paint, and a giant red curly wig is one-step removed from the man with the ski mask. Both are masked identities, the only difference is one is immediately associated with threat. If a person is walking around in broad daylight wearing that shit, it would not be an unnatural response to question the person's sanity.

Personally, I think these people dressing up as clowns are just following a trend. You dress up as a clown, go out in public, and get kicks out of people wondering if you're out of your mind or not.

Tryptamine stated: source post

Personally, I think these people dressing up as clowns are just following a trend. 

It's really a matter of questioning which ones. Maybe they're all about stunts and childrens parties, maybe they're about "madness", maybe they're about random murders in the back of a van, maybe they're about Faygo and Fat Bitches. It's a real crapshoot. 

We need a healthy dose of mimes to even the score. 

Mime murder seems more meaningful than a clown's.

Maybe the handicap humanizes them. 

Not a real mime: 
A) Who ever heard of a grayscale mime that wore a golden wrist watch? You don't even see too many Gold Mimes with those. 
B) I can see the knife. 

Mime's an art, not grand theft auto. 

give me gun so i can shoot them in the balls