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)
New Bedford · MA, USA
Disk-like object floating over new bedford aprox. 300' in air.
Fitchburg · MA, USA
Orange lights sceen over fitchburg ma.
Windsor · MA, USA
Myself and a passenger observed a hovering and moving red ball of light while driving in a rural area.
West Yarmouth/Lewis Bay · MA, USA
12-15+ orange lights silently moving over Lewis Bay
Provincetown · MA, USA
Immense golden light over Provincetown harbor returned three more times in 12-15 minutes
Chicopee · MA, USA
a flash of light bigger than a shooting star
Norwood/Boston · MA, USA
We saw this disk like object floating above the horizon of Norwood Massachusetts. We drove up and parked our car on a hill and watched
Dennisport · MA, USA
Around 9:45 i looked up at the sky and saw a star light blinking repeatedly. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly Sirius? PD))
Charlton · MA, USA
Bright Pulsating Moving Light/Object. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius?? PD))
Lawrence · MA, USA
Large glowing spere like object appears vanishes and appears as a strange bar shaped object with two lights then vanishes.
Grafton · MA, USA
Column of orange-red-amber lights appeared in night sky then disappeared into clouds.
Worcester · MA, USA
Silent craft overhead
Wakefield · MA, USA
Glowing amber lights flying silently in a triangle formation
Oak Bluffs · MA, USA
seven orange lights floating over ocean in oak bluffs
Westport · MA, USA
orange ball of fire
Mashpee · MA, USA
twenty ambers balls moving across the sky in pairs, shoot upwards then disappear.
Grafton · MA, USA
Two still, round objects that were very bright and were not resting on anything, so could not be a lamp post of some sort.
Dennis Port (Cape Cod) · MA, USA
Slow moving unusual brilliant liquid white like single object over Cape Cod
New Bedford · MA, USA
Glowing orbs flying in formation in the New Bedford sky
Worcester · MA, USA
I was in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant and noticed an object approximately two miles away traveling from south west to nor
Mashpee · MA, USA
Approximately 10 silver/ irridescent spheres seen flying South in a formation over Cape Cod, MA
Leominster · MA, USA
White dot slowly moving east to west in the sky over S. Leominster MA 8/29/11 @ 4:45am.
Bridgewater · MA, USA
chevron object with lights north south path in Bridgewater MA almost invisible and really fast
Mansfield · MA, USA
Two bright lights seen moving together at constant pace slowly dimming into darkness
Natick · MA, USA
I thought it was a plane on fire headed towards Logan Airport...