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
Boomerang-shape, "dividing"? objects.
Fire Island (Long Island) · NY, USA
Fire Island up close encounter with a UFO.
Madrid · NY, USA
slow moving row of 3 or 4 red window like lights following our road, above the telephone lines after dusk
Canandaigua · NY, USA
large triangular object, black with small red and white lights. Hovered for 10 minutes at 500ft elevation
Cheektowaga · NY, USA
Very large dark grey object over small community in Western New York frightens non U.F.O believers.
Centerport (Long Island) · NY, USA
A light brown transparant disc about the size of the full moon moving across the sky in a NNW direction.
Plattsburg · NY, USA
High altitude high speed triangle with red light on each tip performing complex geometric maneuvers.
Lake George · NY, USA
Small points of light moving randomly
Goshen · NY, USA
While outside with my family on July 4th...I went to my room to get a CD...then I seen this object just floating in the sky about a mil
East Setauket · NY, USA
Football shaped, pink luminous with vapor trail.
Long Island/Stoney Brook · NY, USA
witnessed speedy crafts rendezvousing and hovering
Dundee · NY, USA
cross shaped ufo hovering over a hill.
Rochester · NY, USA
I saw three triangle shaped craft fly over my neighborhood.
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
Me and two friends were in a park hanging out. We looked up and saw a "fireball" streak across the entire sky, which was visible to us,
New York City · NY, USA
We were followed by 4 dancing lights for over 70 miles
New York City (Queens) · NY, USA
4 light s in formation
Rochester · NY, USA
Man, brother, see bright yellow light hovering over local woods suddenly descend into woods, turn to orange. Sudden flash of light.
Purchase · NY, USA
The Westchester Triangle 96?
Byron · NY, USA
I had a 3 hour lost time experience, on my front porch one night.
Appalachin · NY, USA
Small disk flyes over school in Apalachin, NY
Medford · NY, USA
Man, daughter, nephew see 6 "tiny white dots" pass S to N at extremely high speed. They believe was 1 obj. w/ 6 lights. Fast!
Ithaca · NY, USA
Woman & husband (pilot) see very large, illuminated obj., shaped like "upside down cage on a blimp," pass overhead. Good rept..
Geneva · NY, USA
Woman rpts a very bright stationary light in SE sky "below Orion's Belt" that looks "like a horseshoe." Alternating red, blue, white.
Glen · NY, USA
Young woman & friend witness bizarre, round obj. w/ intensely bright blue/white lights. Pursued obj. in car; obsrvd. it on ground.
New York City · NY, USA
Over 28th & Lexington Ave, A Huge, hovering, triangleish shape hovering probably over 1000 feet above crowd including 4 NYC Cops