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 · NY, USA
Disk Shaped object streaked across Central Park
Rockland/Westchester Counties · NY, USA
UFO hovering for hours over Indian Point Nuclear Reactor -- reported live on local radio (WRKL) with reporter and sheriff's deputies in
Wappingers Falls · NY, USA
1st of 2
Monroe · NY, USA
A light blue rigid disk object with dome decended in an out of control, flip-flopping pattern about a mile from my point of view.
Annandale · NY, USA
Late summer 1985 large object hovering over Annandale NY
Carmel · NY, USA
My 2 books detail what I experienced that night
Near Westport ny · NY, USA
Spinning saucer with very bright lights. Quite large- about the size of a small house.
North Tonawanda · NY, USA
Sighting witnessed during Persaides meteor shower.
Friendship · NY, USA
massive silent object.
Mechanics Town (Breyside Camp) · NY, USA
was 9 years old,attending breyside camp, woke up one night to a bright light, i walked out of the cabin, saw disk shaped object, stared
Great Neck · NY, USA
Giant UFO sighting on Long Island in the mid 1980's
Peekskill · NY, USA
Triangle shaped Orange colored translucent object hovered near Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant emitting a loud whooshing sound.
North Tonawanda · NY, USA
7 lights in a chevron shape not sure it was one object lighted or 7 seperate ones
Route 7 · NY, USA
oval object with no sound or lights that blocked out stars as it moved from horizon to horizon
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
Bright light over Sun Set Park, viewed from Park Slope on Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
White Plains · NY, USA
A nighttime sighting of an arrow or triangle shaped craft, which moved very slowly, almost hovering, with no noise.
Middletown · NY, USA
Rectangular object, 3 contiguous sections; the outer 2 sections a dark green, the inner a brighter lighter green.
New York City · NY, USA
Strange thing that changed into a pearl.
Stone Ridge · NY, USA
Huge, low flying, silent cube shaped object with lights on bottom travelling about 60 m.p.h. over Stone Ridge.
Holmes/Whaley Lake · NY, USA
Looking up towards the north,we saw a V shaped formation of lights. Maybe it was just one craft with a line of 8 to 11 lights in the sh
White Plains · NY, USA
Saw a hugh object in sky with lights intermittently placed not making any noise traveling north in the night sky.It had no real identif
Elwood · NY, USA
Cheveron shaped ojects in V shape formation; daytime sighting, silent moving
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
BRIGHT WHITE LIGHTS SEEN IN THE BRONX IN THE 1980's.
South Glens Falls · NY, USA
We saw a cigar-shaped object fly and then land.
Croton-on-Hudson · NY, USA
craft glided over houses. Seemed to be just above tree line but it was huge so hard to tell how high. Silent. Slow. Many saw it. Police