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)
East Greenbush · NY, USA
blue and red orb
Cold Spring · NY, USA
Bright silent light moving slowly in a curve that disappeared.
Geneva · NY, USA
Light / Star - faint at first. Increasing in brightness, with red / purple strobe light, appearing and disappearing
pjs · NY, USA
Light does a J-turn.
Long Lake · NY, USA
light in the sky
Canton · NY, USA
A flashing light hovered in the northern skies for more than an hour.
New York City · NY, USA
star like, zig zag flight
Syracuse (Elbridge) · NY, USA
I saw a very bright light in the sky that passed and then "shot off into space."
Johnson City · NY, USA
Bright light traveling over Johnson City, NY heading over Binghamton 5/22/08
New York City (Queens) · NY, USA
Out of ordinary lights in queens
Commack · NY, USA
Strange lights over Commack NY
Thornwood · NY, USA
Bright flickering light up in sky. Looked down, looked back, gone.
Jamestown · NY, USA
bright blue star that moves in strange patterns across the sky(and yellow). ((NUFORC Note: Prboable sighting of a celestial body. PD)
New York City (Manhattan) · NY, USA
A row of Five bright lights over Manhattan
Sayville · NY, USA
Lights in the Sky.
Waddington · NY, USA
3 orange light appeared in a arched shape lasted 2 to 3 mins. then disappeared, no noise.
New Rochelle · NY, USA
extremely bright light that moved very slowly and disappeared in the opposite direction.
Buffalo · NY, USA
Streaking Light during field goal kick Patriots vs Bills Sunday Night Football
New York City (Manhattan) · NY, USA
very shiny object that I captured movie from that but the movie didn't show that!
New York City · NY, USA
bright light of oval shaped object hovers in sky over Manhattan in early morning --lasted about half hour ((NUFORC Note: Venus. PD))
Kingston · NY, USA
Ball of light moves slowly behind a tree & disappears.
New York City · NY, USA
Bright light appears over NYC ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus or "twinkling star??" PD))
Ravena · NY, USA
Triangular bank of bright, unmoving white blinking lights seen over Ravena, NY. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly Venus in the E sky. PD))
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
I just wanted to report that I saw a star like object in the night sky that could have been a red party balloon traveling southbound fa
Brockport · NY, USA
Lighted object crosses entire sky in less than 30 Seconds