State Report
UFO Sightings in New York
9,182 sightings on record from 1790 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
9,182
Share of US total
4.28%
Peak year
2012
733 reports
Top shape
Light
1,661 reports
Years active
233
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-16 | Harrison | circle | 30 seconds | I was driving on I-684, I saw it coming towards me so I looked up,It flew over my car, I looked at it, It didn't appear... |
| 2023-12-09 | Brooklyn | orb | 6 minutes | My son told me there were lights in the sky so I came to look. We saw 9 objects in the sky that disappeared into the... |
| 2023-12-04 | Corinth | flash | 2 seconds | Mechanical light from Def UAP |
| 2023-12-02 | New York | orb | 25 minutes | This thing caught my eye as I looked up over the elevated train. I watched it for about 20 minutes making odd turns |
| 2023-11-30 | Gouverneur | orb | 30 sec 3 times 15 min apr | one orb changing to 4 orbs from left to right 3 times 15 min apart |
| 2023-11-29 | Valley Stream | triangle | 5-10 seconds | Aircraft with unusual lights, triangular shape with 5 circular lights on the bottom, heading west. |
| 2023-11-23 | Grand Island | chevron | 1-3 minutes | Object with flashing lights takes off. Vertically makes unnatural course correction. |
| 2023-11-19 | Pond Eddy | orb | 30 minutes | White orb hovering around the sky. |
| 2023-11-18 | Buffalo | triangle | 5 minutes or longer | Grey bicycle seat shaped object with flashing red lights |
| 2023-11-14 | Stephentown | circle | 1 minute | Three bright orange orbs levitating then moving slightly and slowly then moving fast and disappearing |
| 2023-11-10 | Fairport | changing | 1 hour | Alien standing on the front porch |
| 2023-10-29 | Bayport | orb | 10 second | Son playing outside , witnessed object |
| 2023-10-28 | Brooklyn | unknown | Consistent | We saw something that looked strange in the sky. |
| 2023-10-23 | West Haverstraw | circle | 1minute | String of aligned lights idle waiting for a stray light to catch up |
| 2023-10-23 | West Haverstraw | light | 1 minute | 5 lights waiting lining up and hovering idle, waiting for 6th stray light for stray light |
| 2023-10-14 | Newcomb | cylinder | 1 minute | Middle of the woods lit up like a football stadium was a dome with lights attached or what looked like people or the... |
| 2023-10-12 | Yonkers | circle | My videos about 4 mi | I recorded 3. One moved too quickly to catch, but I think one other appears very briefly in the lower left corner of the... |
| 2023-10-11 | Canastota | disk | 30 seconds | One disk object floating forward |
| 2023-10-08 | Greenwich | fireball | <5 min | My girlfriend and I witnessed 3 or more lights chasing each other around in random patterns before disappearing over the... |
| 2023-10-05 | White Plains | chevron | 10min | 2 objects in the sky (stationary) |