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)
Cicero · NY, USA
SIGHTING #2: Bluish cross-shaped UFO followed by large conventional aircraft.
Cicero · NY, USA
SIGHTING #3: Bright white pulse of light, quickly diminishing to star intensity, moving.
Syracuse to Phoenix · NY, USA
Driving on 690, two flashing red/white/blue lights north towards fulton and south towards syracuse then vanished.
Niagara Falls · NY, USA
Green light followed by what appeared to be hovering object with blinking lights above Niagara Falls, NY. ((anonymous report))
White Plains · NY, USA
As i was driving I saw two circular orange flying lights.They were side by side with a distance between them.I didn't hear any sound. I
Buffalo · NY, USA
Cargo fleet through Buffalo, NY, 14204 near Canadian border.
Penfield · NY, USA
I was heading south on Baird Road. I was right in front of the library on that road, I looked up saw a bright white rectangle hoverin
Sanborn · NY, USA
3 orbs dancing/chasing each other in circles in Sanborn, NY. ((anonymous report))
Fort Salonga · NY, USA
Saw silent black ball with no markings in sky above bird level, and two hours later saw orange ball in sky that turned into black ball
Centereach · NY, USA
2 lighted ships over Centereach NY. One was lit with blue lights the other was lit in red lights
Russia · NY, USA
At 9:22 pm there was a straight line of 14 lights that I picked up on a deer camera. It appears to be positioned around 20-25'above.
Cold Spring · NY, USA
Low craft hovering slowly over Hudson River.
Windham (Catskills) · NY, USA
Orange balls or boat shapes, silent slow, over 15.
Saugerties · NY, USA
Appeared from nowhere in the east sky moving slowly south, then just disappeared.
Yonkers · NY, USA
Bright orange circle broad daylight. ((anonymous report))
Kingston · NY, USA
There were, in two separate locations in the sky bright flashes of light. Mostly range. There are a few oval shaped volts of rnong. Th
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
My boyfriend and I saw two V-shaped objects flying slowly with no sound in Brooklyn, NY. ((anonymous report))
New York City (Middle Village) · NY, USA
Four red lights with two blinking green lighted object in sky
Wassaic · NY, USA
Fireball above Wassaic, NY.
New York City (Manhattan) · NY, USA
I was on the roof of my apartment building eating a bag a potato chips around 2:45 am this morning. I was just absentmindedly looking u
Waterloo · NY, USA
Over a 2 hour period we watched a bright light in the sky move SSE slowly. I watched about an hour of this and went to my neighbor bec
Cleveland (Oneida Lake) · NY, USA
Partial CLOSE-UP picture of UFO over Oneida Lake, NY. 8/24/16 @ 6:31am
Syracuse · NY, USA
Bright stationary lights in the sky that looked like stars in bright day light.
Whitehall · NY, USA
Streak of light over Whitehall, NY, pauses then vanishes is a flash of light lasted just seconds.
Malverne · NY, USA
Group of 5 solid amber/orange lights, traveling in an open formation from northwest to southeast. ((anonymous report))