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)
Boston · NY, USA
((HOAX??)) Small lights at high altitude wobbling across the sky.
Delmar · NY, USA
A yellow light and a green light that hovered in the sky then shot all the way across the sky rapidly.
Kew Gardens · NY, USA
About 12 crafts with Lights changing from yellow to red, some traveled others were more stationary
West Babylon · NY, USA
Reddish/orange orbs floating in the air.
Depew · NY, USA
Small or high-altitude chevrons in "V" pattern followed by ever lower or larger chevron over Depew, NY.
Rochester · NY, USA
Five reddish lights moving in an x formation traveling south west over Rochester.
Geneva · NY, USA
Red light flying large circles in the sky.
Rochester · NY, USA
Satellite looking object getting bright and fading while moving north east.
Buffalo · NY, USA
4 or 5 moving objects appeared on fire then disappeared. move like an airplane.
Williamson · NY, USA
One bright, non-blinking white light moving at a slow speed and low altitude in an east-southeast direction.
Lockport · NY, USA
Bright, white light in Buffalo sky.
Syracuse · NY, USA
3 Red Spherical objects forming large triangle and then disappear!
Wayland · NY, USA
Fireball sighted moving across the sky in the Finger Lakes.
Valley Stream · NY, USA
Orange objects move across sky. Not commercial aircraft.
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
Saw three orange orbs moving steadily, hovering, and then traveling vast distances within seconds, over Brooklyn, NY.
New York City (Manhattan) · NY, USA
Fireball over Manhattan
Massena · NY, USA
On June 25, 2014 at around 11 pm I seen two rectangular "aircraft" that were a bright orange in color, with big bright white.
Hawthorne · NY, USA
Two round shapes moving very fast in a circular motion away from each other and meeting in the middle, went on for 20 min.
Blossvale · NY, USA
Moving Light Star Object Then Came to Complete Stop in Sky.
Mamaroneck · NY, USA
UFO sighting in June 2014.
New York City (Manhattan) · NY, USA
Formation above nyc during pride fest.
Scotia · NY, USA
There was what appeared to be a UFO at the 2014 Scotia Fireworks.
Red Hook · NY, USA
4 V-shaped orange objects in the sky.
Levittown · NY, USA
5 fireball/orange shapes sitting in the sky for two minutes before disappearing.
Medford · NY, USA
Several "noiseless," pale orange, non-blinking spheres, floating from south to north in Medford, LI, NY