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
Dark Triangular shaped craft floating towards Times Square.
Red Hook · NY, USA
Fireball flickering at first, then bright orangish reddish and round moving mid-level across the sky, then disappears
Riverhead · NY, USA
Aug. 28, 2014- 5:00 am. Ufo sighting over riverhead round purple, orange color here for 20 -seconds & gone.
Massapequa · NY, USA
Lights, pulsating - some color change, some changing shapes appeared and disappeared.
Sayville · NY, USA
Saw blue ball of light fall from sky then craft seem to check it out then skip across sky like a rock on water extremely fast.
Merrick · NY, USA
5 orange flashing UFO's.
Lockport · NY, USA
Round, lights spinning, hovering over eastern end of town of Lockport.
East Northport · NY, USA
About 11:30 I walked outside looked to the south and saw a fireball dancing in the sky traveling west disappeared over the horizon
Clarence Center · NY, USA
Object seen flashing red and blue quickly hovering over Akron, NY morning of 8/28 and then Pendleton, NY 8/29. Obect remains at same hi
Syracuse · NY, USA
Friday, 8/29/14. Slow moving object spotted between 12:30 and 1:00pm in Syracuse sky traveling east, then southwest, and hovering.
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
It was a star light object white moving then stopped.
Liverpool (north Syracuse) · NY, USA
Triangle Aircraft hovering and bright.
Syracuse · NY, USA
Bright orange object, 5-10 arcmin, indistinct borders, S. to N., 4 min horizon to horizon.
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
UFO OVER THE BRONX.
North Tonawanda · NY, USA
Orange color. Not blinking. Fading and changing in shape, while being shapeless. Possibly changed in position/direction. First seen on
Staten Island · NY, USA
Flashing red and green object.
Oakland Gardens (Queens) · NY, USA
4-5 Objects flying over NY.
North Tonawanda · NY, USA
Sighting of a large number of red circles in the sky over North Tonawanda on the evening of July 4th, 2014.
Babylon · NY, USA
Bright consistently glowing reddish orbs,about twenty of them, traveling approximately 2,000 mph from west to east along the southern e
Franklin Square · NY, USA
Bright yellow object moving horizontally.
Boylston · NY, USA
Strange triangle of lights in the sky.
Bay Shore · NY, USA
Orange orb traveling west to east, very distinct glow.
Tarrytown · NY, USA
Bright Blue Orb seen during 4th of July Fireworks display
Lockport · NY, USA
An orange glowing, fiery light, large or close, flying in a south easterly direction.
Albany · NY, USA
The 4 of us saw a silent glowing ball of light cross sky. was bigger / brighter than plane.