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)
Cheektowaga · NY, USA
Object flying over a taking off airplane in cheektowaga ny
Putnam Valley · NY, USA
Huge disc hovers over Valley, then takes off vertically.
Binghamton · NY, USA
Stationary sphere.
Ontario · NY, USA
About 12 orange fireballs seen moving in an eastward flight pattern in Ontario, NY, on Saturday, June 15th, around 10:30 pm.
Grahamsville · NY, USA
Faster than satellite, constant speed, constant direction changing bright to dim randomly for 5 to 10 sec at a time.
Mahopac · NY, USA
Red and white lights hovering over the Secor Rd area
Patchogue · NY, USA
Slow moving light vanishes. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of ISS?? PD))
Salamanca · NY, USA
Four glowing spheres hovering in the sky.
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
Strange fast moving orange lights in the sky that did not function like airplanes.
Albany · NY, USA
There were about 30 objects in a huge formation, round, reddish orange , globe figures.
Barker · NY, USA
Fireball in the night sky.
Bellport · NY, USA
Round glowing orange ball craft hovering at a slow speed.
Ogdensburg · NY, USA
Hazy light in sky.
New York City (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
Unknown Object In Brooklyn NY
Baldwinsville · NY, USA
Three orange orb-like structures were seen for around 3 minutes.
Baldwinsville · NY, USA
Three equidistant orange spherical orbs were seen by four of us for about three minutes.
New York City (Manhattan) · NY, USA
White light traveling at an impossible speed in a perfectly straight line.
Elmont · NY, USA
Hovering in the sky still as I'm writing been there about 35 mins now. Lights change pattern so triangle appears to get bigger.
Medford · NY, USA
Large cigar shapedf object
Ithaca · NY, USA
4 red lights flying around in the sky
Baldwinsville · NY, USA
6 Orange lights in Central New York
Williamsville · NY, USA
Orange blue disk.
Nassau County · NY, USA
Saw an orange-yellow circular glowing light in the sky
Ridgewood (Queens) · NY, USA
Fiery red orange object.
Highland Mills · NY, USA
Spherical solid white light moving through sky, stopped and disappeared.