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)
Northampton · MA, USA
Fireball seen in sky emitting sparks behind it.
Attleboro · MA, USA
points of light curving top and bottom to the left with a bright shining round ball in the middle of the shape
Hanson · MA, USA
Two slowly moving distant lights.
Fall River · MA, USA
Ball seen above college library
Taunton · MA, USA
I was returning home from work and pulled up to a traffic light which was on red. The light is on Bay street right by the Taunton indus
Hingham · MA, USA
A triangular shaped UFO hovering at a slow pace at a low altitude.
Roslindale · MA, USA
TRIANGULAR ,3 SPHERES,CHANGED INTO A CYLINDRICAL SHAPE
On the Mass Pike: Rt. 90 · MA, USA
Large square shaped craft with four other smaller craft flying below it.
Waltham · MA, USA
Strange object
Wakefield · MA, USA
Time seemed to stand still as I looked at this traingle shape that was "no plane" moving through the sky...what was I seeing?
West Tisbury · MA, USA
Small dot in daylight sky, moved with exceptional speed after staying in one place for three hours. Strange
Millis · MA, USA
20 yr old paraplegia and 48 year old father. Silhouette in window, very bright white light, dog frightened, dog will not go into area o
Gay Head (Aquinah) · MA, USA
Amber red pulsating circular pinwheel just over the ocean
Dedham · MA, USA
Green light beam from the sky.
Palmer · MA, USA
Unknown black object caught fling straight up on video tape by accident.
Billerica · MA, USA
Two discs seen one loud one quiet.
Framingham · MA, USA
Followed orange glowing object for 3/4 of a mile.
Lunenburg · MA, USA
Spherical light of florescent like quality, started with apparent size of penny at arms length, and climbed rapidly at steep angle.
Revere · MA, USA
I observed a disk shaped, luminous tan colored UFO with tiny colored lights flashing on its surface moving slowly north by northeast.
Boston · MA, USA
Bright light moving quickly east to west viewed from the boston common
Newton · MA, USA
The sky was perfectly clear and there was an enormous BLINDING flash which had the appearance of some type of nuclear devise going off
Braintree · MA, USA
A friend of mine in Braintree, Mass. was the observer and reported "sighting" to me. Witness observed very bright light in the West. (
Worcester County · MA, USA
roomate saw three stars in the daylight
Boston · MA, USA
At 23:50 EST 5/31/00 I was standing near 95 Summer St. near the corner of Devonshire St. in Downtown Boston, looking southeast down Sum
Rockport · MA, USA
In the northern sky, right at Halibut Point, my son and I witnessed an oval shaped craft