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 (Queesn)(Jamaica) · NY, USA
oval , yellow-orange ball swept the northen sky in flashing speed
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
3 orange orbs over Brooklyn, NY
New York City · NY, USA
Silver object hovering over Freedom Tower.
West Seneca · NY, USA
Distant dot moved witnessed while looking at moon.
Cicero · NY, USA
5 orange orbs hovering around Cicero, NY.
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
Distant, white dot moving over Brooklyn, NY, disappears.
Troy · NY, USA
Strange circular orange light cruising over my house and disappearing into the clouds.
Patchogue · NY, USA
((HOAX??)) Me and a friend saw fireball being propelled across sky .until it was too far to see.
Islip · NY, USA
6 Orange glowing fireball objects flying soundlessly west to east along south shore of Long Island
Somers · NY, USA
((HOAX??))https://youtube.com/watch?v=SzXrLIkbke8 Sat. night i was smoking a joint, and i saw this weird light flying by my house.
Hilton · NY, USA
Bright moving lights above Southern Shore Of Lake Ontario, 12:45 am 5/18/14
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
In the Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City, In a fourteenth floor apartment with a terrace,as I was smoking a cigarette in
Saranac Lake (at local resort) · NY, USA
A shiny oval in the sky.
New York City · NY, USA
Small grey/silver metallic object, mostly circular in shape seen hovering and moving slowly at high altitude over the Hudson River.
Eastport · NY, USA
Unusual object left trail and remained visible for 2 minutes.
Levittown · NY, USA
On 2 consecutive nights saw first a single red light then 2 white lights in the sky near a carnival.
Phoenix · NY, USA
Orange light flying away from an airplane, then vanished.
Floral Park · NY, USA
There were 4 lights equal distance from each other in the dark sky that rotated clockwise slowly and steadily.
Eden · NY, USA
Spherical, silent fireballs in the night sky spotted by two people driving.
Centralia · NY, USA
Weird looking object hovering,then moving quickly.
Auburn · NY, USA
Triangle-shaped craft splits in perfect halves and goes in opposite directions.
Westmoreland · NY, USA
((HOAX)) Followed by men in black.
Saugerties · NY, USA
Saw a white circle in the sky with what looked like a black dot in the side of it moved slowly in a straight line until it was gone.
Pine Bush · NY, USA
Rapidly descending craft with large red and white lights entered residential area at very low altitude.
Middletown · NY, USA
As bright as star, same shape, thouggt wuz a star until it blinked out amd appeared again several min later even brighter