UFO Sightings in Massachusetts
2,492 UFO sightings reported in Massachusetts since 1939, peaking in 2014 (201 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 2,492
- Span
- 1939–2022
- Peak year
- 2014 (201 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1939–2022 · peak 2014 (201 reports)
Top cities in Massachusetts
Boston
1959–2022 · peak 2012 (10 reports)
Worcester
1959–2021 · peak 2014 (10 reports)
Springfield
1966–2021 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Lowell
1978–2020 · peak 2015 (5 reports)
Plymouth
1998–2021 · peak 2017 (5 reports)
New Bedford
1978–2020 · peak 2011 (8 reports)
Methuen
1954–2021 · peak 2013 (3 reports)
Bridgewater
1981–2022 · peak 2013 (8 reports)
Gloucester
1956–2021 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Framingham
1960–2022 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Taunton
1976–2019 · peak 1994 (3 reports)
Fall River
1995–2022 · peak 1995 (2 reports)
Attleboro
1986–2020 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Quincy
1997–2020 · peak 2019 (4 reports)
Brockton
1971–2017 · peak 2012 (3 reports)
Revere
1987–2020 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Lynn
1963–2020 · peak 2010 (4 reports)
Pittsfield
1970–2021 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Woburn
1988–2020 · peak 2002 (3 reports)
Haverhill
1953–2020 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Taunton · MA, USA
Strange looking object, not a bug.
Kingston · MA, USA
Large green fireball sighted falling south of Kingston, MA.
Methuen · MA, USA
Moving red glowing orb of light.
Chicopee · MA, USA
2 slow, silent lights 1 mile away from WARB; followed quickly by 2 black military helicopters.
Eastham · MA, USA
Multiple "bulbs" traveling from sea shelf Coast Guard to Bayside.
Worcester · MA, USA
Day time morphing ufo. From one object to 5 objects !!
Yarmouth · MA, USA
Large Tear drop shaped and whitish-blue object flying horizontally and in a northerly direction before disappearing from sight. No soun
Falmouth · MA, USA
At 3am, noticed this strange light, which looks like a bright star. My BR window looks due E. ((NUFORC Note: Planet? Planet? PD))
Ayer/Harvard · MA, USA
3 reddish/orange orbs over rte 2 in Ayer, MA.
Framingham · MA, USA
I was on my deck. I saw an orange ball of light kind of floating. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Venus or Jupiter? PD))
Provincetown · MA, USA
Two parallel vasilating strings of lights flare, fade to one point, and speed off over Provincetown MA
Grafton · MA, USA
3 lights flying similar to a satellite, but 2 of the lights faded in and out of sight
Brighton · MA, USA
Zigzagging object seen.
Shrewsbury · MA, USA
((HOAX??)) There was a bright light landing fast in the woods there is a power line the light i stop and look light faded away.
Webster · MA, USA
3 orange globes 2 going fast, 1 stoping and going looking for something.
Lee · MA, USA
A series of 20 black rectangular objects flying overhead as I drove on the Mass Turnpike.
Plymouth · MA, USA
I never believed in UFO's until tonight. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor? PD))
Middleboro · MA, USA
Let me start off by saying that I work in a very famous well known area of Massachusetts that has always been known for it's paranormal
Attelboro · MA, USA
We do not have this type of technology.
Weymouth · MA, USA
Multiple black spheres in sky at Weymouth Landing train station.
Revere · MA, USA
Triangle shaped object with 3 red lights, no sound floating in sky.
Upton/Millbury · MA, USA
4 lights spreading out from one point, rotating 45 degrees, then meeting again. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights? PD))
Danvers · MA, USA
Bright green fire ball literally half a mile above an a quarter mile away from Endicott Park, where we were standing.
Littleton · MA, USA
Bright white and blue-circled, oval-shaped UFO splits into 3 objects and disappears!
Newton · MA, USA
White nosed cylinder with a greenish flame over Rt 128.