UFO Sightings in Massachusetts
2,492 UFO sightings reported in Massachusetts since 1939, peaking in 2014 (201 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 2,492
- Span
- 1939–2022
- Peak year
- 2014 (201 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1939–2022 · peak 2014 (201 reports)
Top cities in Massachusetts
Boston
1959–2022 · peak 2012 (10 reports)
Worcester
1959–2021 · peak 2014 (10 reports)
Springfield
1966–2021 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Lowell
1978–2020 · peak 2015 (5 reports)
Plymouth
1998–2021 · peak 2017 (5 reports)
New Bedford
1978–2020 · peak 2011 (8 reports)
Methuen
1954–2021 · peak 2013 (3 reports)
Bridgewater
1981–2022 · peak 2013 (8 reports)
Gloucester
1956–2021 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Framingham
1960–2022 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Taunton
1976–2019 · peak 1994 (3 reports)
Fall River
1995–2022 · peak 1995 (2 reports)
Attleboro
1986–2020 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Quincy
1997–2020 · peak 2019 (4 reports)
Brockton
1971–2017 · peak 2012 (3 reports)
Revere
1987–2020 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Lynn
1963–2020 · peak 2010 (4 reports)
Pittsfield
1970–2021 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Woburn
1988–2020 · peak 2002 (3 reports)
Haverhill
1953–2020 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Bernardston · MA, USA
Saw a green UFO really close to my car, lowered in valley; resulted in panicked coyote hit on I-91.
West Yarmouth · MA, USA
Redish orange twinkling object
Dennis/Yarmouth/Barnstable · MA, USA
Unusual thing in the sky, could have been a cloud but I'm not so sure about that.
Hampden · MA, USA
I have a video of a plane following a UFO.
Sturbridge · MA, USA
Bright, glowing, sometimes stationary objects in the Sturbridge sky!
West Barnstable · MA, USA
2 bright lights moving and a gold bright light also moving positions. Thety have been around 2 days.
Somerville · MA, USA
Saw 6-Orange and yellow in color oval objects in the sky for 4-5 min.
Norwood · MA, USA
Strange Object Flying Over Norwood
Springfield · MA, USA
What looked like a group of stars I beilive to be a UFO.
Granby · MA, USA
3 light triangle. Was stopped in mid air until it went again
Cheshire · MA, USA
Red lights over Berkshire County
Greenfield · MA, USA
I had just got back from the store. I got out of my car walked up the sidewalk with a bag and a box of frozen pizza. As I was walking,I
Waltham · MA, USA
Triangular non moving craft making no noise with red and white flashing lights and a beam of light pointing down at police
Boston · MA, USA
I was looking up at the sky real quick and i noticed a green flaming ball shape object with a blueish and green like flame coming out o
Boston · MA, USA
Orange blurry fireball observed flying over Boston during the early evening. Flying South over Allston.
Provincetown · MA, USA
White bright glowing orb moving in a weird way with a weird color electricity coming out of the top of it.
Leominster · MA, USA
I thought it was a plane going into the small airport in Leominster but realized this was way to big and low for that
Leominster · MA, USA
Driving east on Rt. 2 just at the Rt.2/190 split in Leominster and saw three egg shaped lights hovering in the sky.
North Attleboro · MA, USA
Orange oval shaped like a fire in the sky - blurry
Harwich/Barnstable · MA, USA
5 witnesses spread over 10 miles apart, multiple lights, movement.
Bridgewater · MA, USA
2 stationary lights in the southwest sky from Bridgewater, MA, highly visibly at dusk when nothing else visible in the sky except the .
Hanover · MA, USA
More than 30 orange lights in Massachusetts
Douglas · MA, USA
Green light crosses sky at very fast pace.
Belchertown · MA, USA
Unexplained lights in the woods by Quabbin Reservoir
Boston · MA, USA
Dark triangular craft glided over Boston on 11-05-11 at 5 AM