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 (Brooklyn) · NY, USA
Silent V-Shaped Craft seen flying over Brooklyn NY!
Saugerties/Kingston · NY, USA
Rocking, slow moving disk high in sky visible due to reflected sunlight
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
Observed a red light with lights all around it; the light was moving towards the W. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Sirius? PD))
Lancaster · NY, USA
Glowing orange lights in the sky.
South Nayack (Tarrytown) · NY, USA
Light speed blue craft over NY.
Holbrook · NY, USA
3 Bright orange lights rise high into upper atmosphere 1 at a time, flicker then vanish.
Spencer · NY, USA
Huge, bright red light (too large to be a plane & not blinking), resembled plane crash but didn't fall, just slowly glided across sky.
Mount Kisco · NY, USA
Red lights traveling over Northern Westchester, NY.
Northport · NY, USA
Round light shot across Northport - Huntington Long Island then it shot straight up.
Warwick · NY, USA
Four lights moved in unison, east to west, sliding across the night sky like a water bug and accelerating to simply vanish.
Port Jervis · NY, USA
Two glowing red/orange triangular objects.
Haverstraw · NY, USA
Light above moon. ((NUFORC Note: Witness later concludes that the object was a star. PD))
Schenectady · NY, USA
2 red objects in a diagonal form.
New York City (Middle Village) (Queens) · NY, USA
Red/Orange fireball in sky over South shore of Long Island New York
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
A moving solid light
Batavia · NY, USA
I saw a flash of light when i was driving and started to take pictures and found 4 great pictures on phone
Woodbourne · NY, USA
A basket -shaped object, intense orange at the base white "flames" at the top standing still in an empty field
Syracuse · NY, USA
Went to move my car to the other side of the road in the city of syracuse. saw low flying lights moving east towards dowtown.
Syracuse · NY, USA
Bright orange circles going thru the sky in the same direction. Some were closer to each other.
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
A cloaked disk hovered three hundred feet above two apartment buildings in the Bronx, for aproximately thirty minutes.
Suffern · NY, USA
UFO over Suffern NY
Bablyon · NY, USA
Saw a object that was very odd in the sky over the ocean off fire island inlet!!
Saratoga Springs · NY, USA
Brightly lit object, twice the size of a planet, traversed the night sky, dimmed, and disappeared from view.((NUFORC Note: ISS? PD))
Stone Ridge · NY, USA
White spheres (dots) darting around and emitting sparks at random.
Nanuet · NY, USA
I never saw anything like it in my life. It was no shooting star.