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)
Brockport · NY, USA
Saucer craft moves slowly, hovers, tips up on angle, passes over town, lands in open field.
Newburgh · NY, USA
Stationary UFO in Newburgh Upstate New York 1975. ((NUFORC Note: Date corrected to November 15, 1977. PD))
Saint James · NY, USA
I, and two other witnesses, observed a red glowing sphere for approximately 10 seconds.
Canandaigua · NY, USA
Triangular craft watching Bristol Mountain Ski Resort
Keene Valley · NY, USA
Bright blueish light flew over me I was frozen and couldn't move
Buffalo · NY, USA
Everyone saw this thing, including The Buffalo Police. ((anonymous report))
Staten Island · NY, USA
A round object moving slowly and silently with clusters of light resembling diamonds spinning around and around .
Glen Head · NY, USA
large bright cigar shaped craft with 5 smaller black crafts
So. Farmingdale · NY, USA
Six flying craft sighted over a clear blue sky, just one day after a major blackout in 1977.
So. Farmingdale · NY, USA
It was July 26th 1977 the day after the big black out in NY. It was 2:00 PM and the electric was still off. I was bored and decided
Accord · NY, USA
The object was triangular, totally silent and observed for 20 min and moved slowly with red & green lights and 1 white light.
Mettacahonts · NY, USA
Circular object with many lights moving very slowly at low height over rural upstate New York in the late 1970s
Watertown · NY, USA
My friend and I were on our way to my summer place in Canada and had pulled off I-81 for a rest stop. We were looking at how beautiful
Clearence Center · NY, USA
close encounter in ny
Great Neck · NY, USA
When I was a child, I witnessed shiney gold cylinders in the sky. The sky was very clear; not a cloud in the sky. The objects were fl
New York City (Manhattan) · NY, USA
A small gray ball moved past my bedroom window on the 15th floor of a New York City apartment building.
Tuckahoe · NY, USA
RED/WHITE LIGHTS REVOLVING AROUND DISK SHAPE. 3 WITNESSES.
Fairport · NY, USA
Disk shaped UFO with continous changing color band in the middle. Hoovered for a few minutes about 3 stories off the ground above a cr
Rochester · NY, USA
Flashing red light appeared a foot above my car then sped away at incredible speed.
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
1976 Sighting - 2 disks over NY city.
Albany · NY, USA
It was a warm night for early September in upstate New York. It was "trash night." My parents purchased a new easy chair for
Ausable Forks · NY, USA
Crowd of many witness flying saucer during Forth of July fireworks show in 1976
Hyde Park · NY, USA
flat saucer-multiple white lights on the bottom,going on and off,one at a time, in rotation. light in center of disc (red?) altitude es
Warwick · NY, USA
UFO sighting? Unbelievable expierience!
Syracuse · NY, USA
no noise, no dirt stirred up, two identical crafts never seen before, the ability to hover without making a sound