UFO Sightings in New York
5,489 UFO sightings reported in New York since 1930, peaking in 2012 (383 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 5,489
- Span
- 1930–2030
- Peak year
- 2012 (383 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1930–2030 · peak 2012 (383 reports)
Top cities in New York
New York City (Brooklyn)
1946–2022 · peak 2014 (19 reports)
New York City
1950–2022 · peak 2001 (18 reports)
Rochester
1966–2022 · peak 2014 (16 reports)
Buffalo
1960–2022 · peak 2021 (12 reports)
New York City (Manhattan)
1959–2021 · peak 2002 (8 reports)
New York City (Bronx)
1950–2021 · peak 2013 (10 reports)
Syracuse
1947–2022 · peak 2015 (9 reports)
Albany
1972–2021 · peak 2002 (11 reports)
Staten Island
1977–2022 · peak 2015 (10 reports)
New York City (Staten Island)
1982–2011 · peak 2001 (6 reports)
New York
1974–2022 · peak 2020 (14 reports)
New York City (Queens)
1956–2019 · peak 2007 (8 reports)
Utica
1966–2022 · peak 2019 (10 reports)
Binghamton
1952–2022 · peak 2012 (9 reports)
Ithaca
1979–2020 · peak 2004 (4 reports)
Pine City
2020–2022 · peak 2021 (19 reports)
Poughkeepsie
1965–2019 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Levittown
1970–2020 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
Kingston
1983–2020 · peak 2012 (4 reports)
Schenectady
1960–2017 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
New York City (Manhattan) · NY, USA
About 7 flying objects above New York Sky.
Buffalo · NY, USA
Kite shaped object bright white, above deleware park
Canandaigua · NY, USA
Intense bright obj moving at an extremely high rate of speed and disappearing out of atmosphere. ((NUFORC Note: Satellite? PD))
Orchard Park · NY, USA
Xmas colored rotating lights. ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling stars?? PD))
Albany · NY, USA
Circle of light SUNY Albany.
Albany · NY, USA
Oval metallic object
Rochester · NY, USA
Orange light seen hovering and moving over Rochester
New York City · NY, USA
Multiple UFO sighting in NYC. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect that the objects may have been twinkling stars. PD))
Buffalo · NY, USA
Bright white object with blue, red, green and white lights close to Buffalo International airport... 1.5 hrs
New York City · NY, USA
I have been witnessing craft almost every night since the middle of october 2010. These craft are seen on a New York webcam. (wirednewy
Buffalo · NY, USA
Balls of fire floating (not dropping) across the sky in Buffalo, NY 10-15-10.
New York City (Manhattan) · NY, USA
((HOAX??)) The scariest unknown thing in the night sky.
Highland · NY, USA
low flying triangle slow moving blueish white light in front smaller white lights under no sound no strobes
Honeoye Falls · NY, USA
A possible disk shaped object is seen over Honeoye Falls, NY.
Yonkers · NY, USA
silvery circular object suspended high in the sky
Highland · NY, USA
quick long flashing hovering object
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
3 lights form hovering triangle and disappear behind NYC skyline
Brockport · NY, USA
triangular ufo with 30 or more lights disappering and reappering in differant spots
Herkimer · NY, USA
orange fireball passed stars
Webster · NY, USA
Orange center light, 3 red lights at rear. Object was not flashing any lights, only steady illumination.
Middletown · NY, USA
Object dips up and down and zig zags.
Lindenhurst · NY, USA
It was a very bright light, extremly high up that was brighter than anything else in the night sky
North Tonawanda · NY, USA
4 objects appeared in the eastern sky approx 30 degrees above the horizon near jupiters position at the time.they were very bright as t
Rochester · NY, USA
Orange circular light , it hovered for a time before moving away at a high rate of speed
Babylon · NY, USA
Pulsating light/saucer seen darting over Cedar Beach, Babylon, NY