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)
Warrensburg · NY, USA
Two balls of foggy light playing back and forth.
Westbury · NY, USA
4 disc lights evenly spaced going in circle movent but not moving then as a whole while began traveling slowly.
Rochester · NY, USA
2 sightings, 10 min apart, each time 2 orange/brownish dots moving south to north and incredible speed NO sound. Greece, NY
Adams · NY, USA
Red fireball resembling distresss flare steadily moving 500ft. above the ground.
Rome · NY, USA
Three red orange balls of fire in sky with a golden hue around them. Floating in sky like a chinese lanterns but two big and to far up
Astoria · NY, USA
Fiery orange dual globe flies over Astoria, NY.
Buffalo · NY, USA
Fireballs appear twice in sky then disappear.
Tonawanda · NY, USA
Orange ball of light.
Corinth · NY, USA
Round Plasma fireball (orange/red) object moving in a north/north west direction, suddenly disappeared.
Pendleton · NY, USA
Pulsating lights uneven jagged movements while hovering.
New York City · NY, USA
Possible sighting of rocket launch, seen from NYC
Colden · NY, USA
1 red orange ball moving north to south at a moderate speed.
Wantagh · NY, USA
Looked like 3 fireballs that petered out. ((NUFORC Note: Meteor?...or hoax?? PD))
Kingston · NY, USA
Orange fireball looking object gliding quickly through the sky. It was glowing with a yellow light around it. It changed direction quic
Oceanside · NY, USA
5 lights traveling east to west, spaced out at different distances. lights faded at exact location, black shape seen.
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
3 orange/red circular crafts seen during heavy cloud covered sky.
Watkins Glen · NY, USA
Orange defined circle with interior slow burn flame passes slowly E to W following Glen Creek above tree canopy Watkins Glen NYS.
Auburn · NY, USA
Several objects from south east.
Morrisonville · NY, USA
My son and I observed flashing red light in sky (similar in appearance to aircraft navigation lights) NW.
Port Crane · NY, USA
Saw a large roundest shape white to yellow color it was too large for a star it was glowing with a yellow stream then was gone it was h
Central Islip · NY, USA
Great bright white/blue flash lit the sky and a ray of the same traveled south.
Peru · NY, USA
Obj. appeared the same as witnessed two nights ago in night sky, only tonight it was SW of Plattsburgh, NY (two nights ago it).
Rochester · NY, USA
3 lights in different parts of sky at same time.
Pine Bush · NY, USA
Two glowing oblong shapes traveling in formation, flying at a tilted angle
Westmoreland · NY, USA
Two orange/red glowing balls of light. hardly moving, if moving at all.