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)
Pennellville · NY, USA
Circular Object Seen in Pennellville,NY
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
Small UFO sighting at Yankee Stadium in daylight.
Massapequa · NY, USA
Large pink caterpillar-like object hovered overhead. It seemed to crawl across the sky. It was daytime.
Valley Cottage · NY, USA
Me and my friend sitting in her back yard sow what we thought was a shooting star
New York City · NY, USA
green glowing low flying star shape is unmistakeably a ufo
Westbury · NY, USA
bright blue light over Long Island, moving then stopped then dissapeared with pictures
Cooperstown · NY, USA
Event occurred at around 23:30 June 12, 2009. While sitting at the lake edge, watching planes and satellites pass overhead, I had seen
Huntington · NY, USA
Bright blue light visible during daylight hours moving across sky,
Cornwall-on-Hudson · NY, USA
Blue, red, and predomenantly yellow-lit object swooshed above the trees in a Nike symbol-shaped path.
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
the lights were streaming straight across and i was fascinated
Saratoga · NY, USA
Four year old vanishes in front of police,was just the illusion their minds were implanted with.
Rockville Center · NY, USA
Circular light without any structure denoting an airplane on Long Island.
New York City (Queens) · NY, USA
Moving light that stayed bright as it flew off into the distance.
Morrisville · NY, USA
Bright/fast moving object in the night sky
Morrisville · NY, USA
Large bright light in the sky and when it turned it appeared to be cigar shaped with a red light on its front.
Seaford · NY, USA
It was a bright light in the sky up only a few hundred feet in the air
New York · NY, USA
For five minutes around midnight of 28 june we watched a silent slow-moving well-lit disc-shaped object moving from north to east..
Mt. Pleasant · NY, USA
MT PLEASANT, NY, SAUCER SHAPE CRAFT 2100-2330
Buffalo · NY, USA
The ship was close to my house and hovered over trees on the next street and then zipped off like the speed of light.
Endicott · NY, USA
Light darting at angles at night
Tobay Beach · NY, USA
05/10/09 Tobay Beach N.Y. A silver reflective circle shaped object flying from west to east above an airplane
New Windsor · NY, USA
UFO Spotted In New Windsor, NY 2 beams of light into one, low rumble moving at a slow pace chevron shaped.
New York City (Manhattan) · NY, USA
Bright light over Manhattan
Orangeburg · NY, USA
Triangular shape emerging from cloud spotted in NY.
New York City · NY, USA
a brilliant low flying green star was my last sighting.