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)
Oakdale · NY, USA
Bright green glowing sphere over wetlands. Oakdale, Long Island, NY.
Rochester · NY, USA
I was in the passenger side of a Jeep driven by my brother. We were driving home to our fathers house from our mothers house and had tu
Saint James · NY, USA
Fast moving green light.
Hilton · NY, USA
Looks to be over L. Ontario, flashing light that keeps bouncing up & down & zig zagging w/ red and green lights. ((anonymous report))
Saratoga Springs · NY, USA
Clear blue sky facing north east unknown object appeared in photo upstate NY
Webster · NY, USA
Craft spotted over Lake Ontario.
Westtown · NY, USA
Blue star dissapeared then reapeared above an aircraft and followed it then dissapeared again.
Fishkill (on I-84 · eastbound; just past), NY, USA
Large disk or saucer-shaped object with yellow and red blinking lights, rotating around its perimeter
Webster · NY, USA
((NUFORC Note: Source, who remains anonymous, fails to provide any information about the alleged sighting incident. PD))
Albany · NY, USA
Flash of light, followed by a quick acceleration, with a tail following it, for about three seconds before it was gone.
Oak Point · NY, USA
On Nov. 2, my son and I were checking out the night sky for satellites we saw something which we thought was one – Very high alt.
Oakhill · NY, USA
The object moved from left to right, then went up over the clouds and disappeared.
Fire Island (Watch Hill) · NY, USA
Suddenly this beam just came at us, or to us, like the snap of your finger. It was no longer lingering and just came to us.
Tonawanda · NY, USA
Large reddish, spherical craft swooped out of clouds with tremendous speed, changed directions, darted up, then stopped in mid air.
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
A shape shifting object with a red dot in the center has been nesting in the sky for long periods of time resembling a star.
Bushwick · NY, USA
Random movements/blinking lights: slow to medium speed random side to side movements, later up & down. ((anonymous report))
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
The craft is made of light flashes a red glow in the center and at times a downward beam from its center it has smaller lights that app
Ardonia · NY, USA
light in sky suddenly changed directly and accelerated away
Cutchogue · NY, USA
Driving W down Co. Rd. 48 in Cutchogue, a light came across the sky from the north at incredible speed. ((anonymous report))
Woodstock · NY, USA
A lights with no strobe and no red and green lights.
Lisbon · NY, USA
Red lights in formation over Canton.
Oak Point · NY, USA
Formation of lights in two groups.
Edwards · NY, USA
Circular shaped object in the sky hovered over my car and followed us down the road
New Paltz · NY, USA
Driving on I-84 east bound in a car, we saw what appeared to be a large airplane approx. the size of a 747.
Baldwinsville · NY, USA
Very intense bright white light, lingered for a second or two then vanished.