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)
Plattsburg · NY, USA
A bright yellow light follwing my car on the highway...and then just dissapeared.
Carlisle · NY, USA
A witness in Carlisle, New York reported a slow-moving fireball accompanied by a smell resembling burning sulfur, observed for under one minute in June 1990.
Cicero · NY, USA
bright lite making fast moves and complex
Dexter · NY, USA
It was treetop level and only 100 yards or less away
Pawling · NY, USA
Large oval craft with lights above house on north side of Route 55 between Pawling and Freedom Plains, NY, late 1980's.
Harrison · NY, USA
Huge web shaped object rises into the sky
Middletown · NY, USA
Diamond shaped UFO in 1989 entered into our apartment complex. ((anonymous report))
Kent Cliffs · NY, USA
Disk shaped UFO hovering with red and white alternating lights with planes in chase
Rocky Point · NY, USA
Boy restricted in bed while sleeping, As if sheets were pulling him down......While hearing distinguished sound.
Peekskill · NY, USA
Massive, low flying, slowly moving craft that emitted no sound.
Mt. Morris · NY, USA
Large closing bar of light in night sky '89/'90. NY
Chappaqua · NY, USA
Hudson Valley UFO, summer late 1980s
Grahamsville · NY, USA
LARGE AIRCRAFT CARRIER FLOATING APPEARANCE WITH NO SOUND
Berkshire · NY, USA
Chevron shaped craft flying towards north-western sky between Binghamton and Ithaca, New York.
Stony Point · NY, USA
large triangle object above hudson river
Brooklyn · NY, USA
Black disc hovers floats while spinning forward over and over again - looks like plate or garbage can lid caught in a weird wind gust
Rhinebeck · NY, USA
sighting in Rhinebeck, NY 1989 Rt. 9 - Taconic State Parkway
Groveland · NY, USA
A bright White Light seen by 4 teens in 1988
New York City · NY, USA
Alien working in a store in a busy neigborhood blending in with us.
Wappingers Falls · NY, USA
Extremely bright light making unremarkable maneuvers over a tree line.
Ellenville · NY, USA
Large building type UFO that is tall but rounded, never heard of sighting of a UFO like this one.
Barneveld · NY, USA
large tringular object in the sky over my home
New York City · NY, USA
Weird collection of lights hovers over Manhattan in April 1989 then glides away
Bedford Hills · NY, USA
Saucer westchester 1988
Poughkeepsie · NY, USA
V-shaped formation on Vassar College campus