UFO Sightings in New York
5,489 UFO sightings reported in New York since 1930, peaking in 2012 (383 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 5,489
- Span
- 1930–2030
- Peak year
- 2012 (383 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1930–2030 · peak 2012 (383 reports)
Top cities in New York
New York City (Brooklyn)
1946–2022 · peak 2014 (19 reports)
New York City
1950–2022 · peak 2001 (18 reports)
Rochester
1966–2022 · peak 2014 (16 reports)
Buffalo
1960–2022 · peak 2021 (12 reports)
New York City (Manhattan)
1959–2021 · peak 2002 (8 reports)
New York City (Bronx)
1950–2021 · peak 2013 (10 reports)
Syracuse
1947–2022 · peak 2015 (9 reports)
Albany
1972–2021 · peak 2002 (11 reports)
Staten Island
1977–2022 · peak 2015 (10 reports)
New York City (Staten Island)
1982–2011 · peak 2001 (6 reports)
New York
1974–2022 · peak 2020 (14 reports)
New York City (Queens)
1956–2019 · peak 2007 (8 reports)
Utica
1966–2022 · peak 2019 (10 reports)
Binghamton
1952–2022 · peak 2012 (9 reports)
Ithaca
1979–2020 · peak 2004 (4 reports)
Pine City
2020–2022 · peak 2021 (19 reports)
Poughkeepsie
1965–2019 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Levittown
1970–2020 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
Kingston
1983–2020 · peak 2012 (4 reports)
Schenectady
1960–2017 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
New York City (Manhattan) · NY, USA
Silver sphere or orb hovering over lower Manhattan Financial District
Albany · NY, USA
UFO streaks out of sky at a right angle at amazing speeds
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
Ok I usually am very sceptical when it comes to appearances of apparitions, imaginary susperstitions, aliens, ufo's and things of that
Ferndale · NY, USA
FIVE SEPARATE BRIGHT LIGHTED AIRCRAFTS SEEN OVER FERNDALE, NY.
New York City (Queens) · NY, USA
Five objects in sky around LaGuardia airport, N.Y.C., daylight.
Troy · NY, USA
From Rt 7 NY I saw what look like mars up in the sky, a small red ball. What struck was that it was like looking at it through a 90 mm
West Islip · NY, USA
Three Contrails
Carthage · NY, USA
Red and blue sphere shaped object in the trees flew away
New York City · NY, USA
Photos Taken in New York on a Bright Day of Oval Craft Near Statue of Liberty
Evans · NY, USA
Watched a object move above the tree line in a south to north direction, very slowely It was round, or round within a cube. Mettalic,
Newburgh · NY, USA
On 5/6/06 at 10:20 PM we spotted a big round ball of light moving swifly across the sky in Newburgh, NY.
East Setauket · NY, USA
Small UFO moving in backyard with red and white lights
Olean · NY, USA
Craft flying over head in the woods.
Syracuse · NY, USA
A bright light that dimmed as it left the earths atmosphere
E. Northport · NY, USA
Flashing lights in formation NNE
Jamestown · NY, USA
A black triangle with solid red lights along the leading two edges.
New York City · NY, USA
star like object high up in the sky making strange movements and somethings changing lights/color
Fairport · NY, USA
3-4 twirling noise whith no engine sound at all -just a twirling noise
Binghamton · NY, USA
high-altitude pulsed contrail
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
My brother and I saw 3 objects flying over the 11203 zip code heading east out toward Long Island. 2 were flying in tandem a the 3rd wa
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
Three Cigarettes floating over Brooklyn
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
UPDATE,, I would like to cross ref my sighting with VANCOUVER, WA. His sighting appear to be the same as mines being that they saw 3 ob
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
Cluster of UFO's with a big silver craft in the middle
Ronkonkoma · NY, USA
((Possible hoax)) It was a very large circular flying obj. that had very bright lights; after about 6 seconds it vanished.
Edwards · NY, USA
Very bright light in eastern sky. Seemed to move very fast in all different directions. Took digital pictures and the pictires look l