diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/describe/describe.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/describe/describe.go
index 65044a44a44..2a8bf9cc50a 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/describe/describe.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/describe/describe.go
@@ -3519,8 +3519,17 @@ func (d *NodeDescriber) Describe(namespace, name string, describerSettings Descr
 			klog.Errorf("Unable to construct reference to '%#v': %v", node, err)
 		} else {
 			// TODO: We haven't decided the namespace for Node object yet.
-			ref.UID = types.UID(ref.Name)
+			// there are two UIDs for host events:
+			// controller use node.uid
+			// kubelet use node.name
+			// TODO: Uniform use of UID
 			events, _ = searchEvents(d.CoreV1(), ref, describerSettings.ChunkSize)
+
+			ref.UID = types.UID(ref.Name)
+			eventsInvName, _ := searchEvents(d.CoreV1(), ref, describerSettings.ChunkSize)
+
+			// Merge the results of two queries
+			events.Items = append(events.Items, eventsInvName.Items...)
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/describe/describe_test.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/describe/describe_test.go
index 03b4b7dca3a..7314feb20e8 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/describe/describe_test.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/describe/describe_test.go
@@ -4934,6 +4934,7 @@ func TestDescribeNode(t *testing.T) {
 		&corev1.Node{
 			ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
 				Name: "bar",
+				UID:  "uid",
 			},
 			Spec: corev1.NodeSpec{
 				Unschedulable: true,
@@ -4986,6 +4987,42 @@ func TestDescribeNode(t *testing.T) {
 				Phase: corev1.PodRunning,
 			},
 		},
+		&corev1.EventList{
+			Items: []corev1.Event{
+				{
+					ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+						Name:      "event-1",
+						Namespace: "default",
+					},
+					InvolvedObject: corev1.ObjectReference{
+						Kind: "Node",
+						Name: "bar",
+						UID:  "bar",
+					},
+					Message:        "Node bar status is now: NodeHasNoDiskPressure",
+					FirstTimestamp: metav1.NewTime(time.Date(2014, time.January, 15, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)),
+					LastTimestamp:  metav1.NewTime(time.Date(2014, time.January, 15, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)),
+					Count:          1,
+					Type:           corev1.EventTypeNormal,
+				},
+				{
+					ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+						Name:      "event-2",
+						Namespace: "default",
+					},
+					InvolvedObject: corev1.ObjectReference{
+						Kind: "Node",
+						Name: "bar",
+						UID:  "0ceac5fb-a393-49d7-b04f-9ea5f18de5e9",
+					},
+					Message:        "Node bar status is now: NodeReady",
+					FirstTimestamp: metav1.NewTime(time.Date(2014, time.January, 15, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)),
+					LastTimestamp:  metav1.NewTime(time.Date(2014, time.January, 15, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)),
+					Count:          2,
+					Type:           corev1.EventTypeNormal,
+				},
+			},
+		},
 	)
 	c := &describeClient{T: t, Namespace: "foo", Interface: fake}
 	d := NodeDescriber{c}
@@ -5003,7 +5040,9 @@ func TestDescribeNode(t *testing.T) {
   memory             1Gi (8%)     2Gi (16%)
   ephemeral-storage  0 (0%)       0 (0%)
   hugepages-1Gi      0 (0%)       0 (0%)
-  hugepages-2Mi      512Mi (25%)  512Mi (25%)`}
+  hugepages-2Mi      512Mi (25%)  512Mi (25%)`,
+		`Node bar status is now: NodeHasNoDiskPressure`,
+		`Node bar status is now: NodeReady`}
 	for _, expected := range expectedOut {
 		if !strings.Contains(out, expected) {
 			t.Errorf("expected to find %q in output: %q", expected, out)