Light UFO Sightings in New York
1,029 light-shaped UFO sightings reported in New York since 1933, peaking in 2012 (82 reports).
- Total sightings
- 1,029
- Span
- 1933–2022
- Peak year
- 2012 (82 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1933–2022 · peak 2012 (82 reports)
Potsdam · NY, USA
Slow pulse orange light moved in non-aerodynamic manner
Stony Point · NY, USA
Heard an insanely loud roaring noise while sitting in my house. It sounded like a plane and lasted a while.
Watertown · NY, USA
Number of red lights flying slowly across sky
Ravena · NY, USA
Rather large brilliantly bright stationary object, bigger than a helicopter hovering to the East of I-87
Lagrange · NY, USA
Moving constellations.
New York City (Queens) · NY, USA
Fast moving light w/no noise and low altitude.
Rochester · NY, USA
Yellow/orange bright light over Rochester, NY.
Staten Island · NY, USA
2-3 lights following eachother in the sky for 20 minutes where they moved from east to west.
Farmingdale · NY, USA
Unexplained very bright light in the night sky.
Pottersville · NY, USA
Two lights similar to planes move erratically & rendezvous.
Yonkers · NY, USA
White star-like, comet-like object with white trail.
Glens Falls · NY, USA
Erratic lights seen, which exchanged position and flashed out and on again.
New York City · NY, USA
Two bright stationary lights seen in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible landing lights on approaching airliners?? PD))
Liverpool · NY, USA
Red/orange light moving very slowly above treeline, with no sound.
Whitestone · NY, USA
Bright light.
Dansville · NY, USA
Bright light western sky watched for 20 min then bam it was gone light was stationary. ((NUFORC Note: Venus. PD))
Clifton Park · NY, USA
Very bright light in sky, enveloped by blackness, then it and the blackness were gone.
Kenmore · NY, USA
Red light with multiple small yellowish-white flashing lights on either side in a rectangle shape.
Cicero · NY, USA
3 orange/red lights gliding across sky.
East Northport · NY, USA
Saw what appeared to be a strobe light that's used for events pointed at the sky. Moved in a large slightly erratic circular pattern.
Hauppauge · NY, USA
Vibrant blue light in the sky; stayed visable for about 10 minutes.
Wynanskill · NY, USA
3 lights hovering slowly with a flash of lightning above
New York · NY, USA
Morphing light craft changing shape on the west side of Manhattan NY.
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
Saw three lights heading north up the Hudson river, all separated by about five minute intervals. At first I suspected they were Chine
North Bangor · NY, USA
Very bright light to the west appeared spotlighting the ground followed by a fighter jet from the west that race and circled for 45 min