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)
Centerville · MA, USA
8:15pm, Cape Cod, 3 round orange lights, with a denseness to them, traveling slowly but steadily from the northeast to the south.
Centerville · MA, USA
8:15 pm this evening 3 round orange lights with some denseness to them moving slowly but steadily from northeast to south in the sky.
Holyoke · MA, USA
Bright red light hovering motionless, then moving slowly while wavering side to side, then slowly fading from red to green to invisible
Boston · MA, USA
Reddish orange orb floating through the sky.
Marshfield · MA, USA
3 orange orbs.
Amherst · MA, USA
Circular white object with blue ring/haze descending from sky, view eventually blocked by trees
Worcester · MA, USA
Orange Amber lights Big Dipper shape.
Dartmouth/NewBedford boarder · MA, USA
My 2 other friends and I were in my driveway Orion's Belt was clear in the sky and we all looked as we were looking something was float
South Dennis · MA, USA
3 large, flashing lights over Dennis beach at sunset.
Holyoke · MA, USA
Unexplained red-orange object seen moving slowly in sky, and then vanishes.
Lowell · MA, USA
Quiet, fast moving light across the night sky.
Fairhaven · MA, USA
Orange/peach colored flickering light floating from south to north along the east side of Sconticut Neck.
Tyngsboro · MA, USA
6 lights shaped like a diamond.
Franklin · MA, USA
Bat-shaped glider over Franklin, MA.
Hyannis · MA, USA
Two red/orange fireballs over Nantucket Sound seen from Hyannis.
Rockport · MA, USA
Craft sighted that looked like airplane, then emitted big blue ball of light and vanished.
Worcester · MA, USA
Two balls of orange light.
Dennis Port · MA, USA
I saw a flying fireball fly horizontally for 3 minutes!
North Brookfield · MA, USA
Saw 5 orange lights in sky move southeast and then straight up.
Boston · MA, USA
Three points of white light moved across the cloudy sky, one flashed once, and when their paths met they shook.
Bernardston · MA, USA
Array of blinking white lights in an arc, hovering at low altitude. Near Exit 28 on Route 91 in MA.
Northborough · MA, USA
Military chopper pursues a UFO over central Massachusetts.
Provincetown · MA, USA
Sitting on my couch, looked out the window and over the bay and ocean of Provincetown, I saw 5 bright objects moving in th sky.
Walpole · MA, USA
Rectangular helicopter like object.
Dennis · MA, USA
Two circular horizontal flying crafts, came one after another following the same path.