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)
Forest Hills (Queens) · NY, USA
Strange lights seen flying low in the NYC metro-area
Poughkeepsie · NY, USA
object came from north to south very slowly, very low. Appeared to almost look like a rectanglular parachute. I tried to snap off a cou
Long Island City · NY, USA
At 11:12 I was watching a construction sight across the street from my window on the 22nd floor of 1 Court Square. I saw a large dull b
Aurora · NY, USA
Appearance of odd shaped bright white/red spherical light with rapid extreme random movements in night sky. ((Venus??))
Verona · NY, USA
ufo sighting in central ny
Queensbury · NY, USA
Giganticly huge glowing object. Very high in the sky, moving at high speed. Observed in night sky.
Rush · NY, USA
dull grey craft spotted flying fast and low with no sound then seemed to dissapear
Schoharie · NY, USA
Egg shaped vessel lit by some means not of this earth.
Catskill · NY, USA
Mom and daughter see traiangular craft once agian over catskill new york.
Buffalo · NY, USA
Evening sky was partly cloudy. Driving on 290 to the thruway, not far from the University at Buffalo. A bright green light from NE to S
Cedarville · NY, USA
red tail, white center blue, comet shape flaming, than disapeared, with in seconds.
Webster · NY, USA
groups of white-ish silver shapes moving quickly from right to left in a horizontal line
Newburgh · NY, USA
Fight paths were unnatural and closer than planes would safely fly near each other no sound of engine
Johnson City · NY, USA
A twitchy light object
Millville/Brockport · NY, USA
SEEING THIS OBJECT NEAR MY HOUSE AGAIN !! AND MOVING LIKE IT DID FREAKS ME
Oswego · NY, USA
There was a circular UFO with lights traveling around it.
Cortland · NY, USA
Light faded away and reappered in different location several times.
East Patchogue · NY, USA
Starlike objects hourglass like shape moving sporadically
Lake George · NY, USA
SEEN WITH A PICTURE
Upstate NY · NY, USA
I saw a UFO over the New York State Thruway today in the Catskill region !!
Wappingers Falls · NY, USA
Circular object with pulsing light seen over Stewart Air National Gaurd base in Newburgh New York. ((NUFORC Note: Venus sighting.))
Parish · NY, USA
me and two of my good friends were testing out a new telescope and were looking out the window and spotted a light in the sky. the ligh
New Rochelle · NY, USA
Strange "soundless" objects and Streaking Lights over New Rochelle, NY
Frankin · NY, USA
Two white lights from single object observed in sky near Franklin, NY
Suffern · NY, USA
well demarcated flash of light with a tail appeared to be falling towards the earth in a free fall, then disappeared except for three s