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New York UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 196 UFO sighting reports in New York from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (35 reports, 17.86% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (35 reports, 17.86% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (35 reports, 17.86% of total).
- 09/19/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 2.55% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (96 reports, 48.98% of total).
New York UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 New York UFO reports from 2019, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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It looked like a giant metallic flying ping pong in the shape of a horseshoe.
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Large explosion followed by bright light heard across multiple towns Loud explosion followed by bright light heard across multiple towns in the county https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.
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MADAR Node 85.
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I happened to look up to the right and saw a white light that was like a star at first then it grew in size and the white light intensity was so damn bright I have never ever seen anything close to the intensity and purity of this white light. It grew about 5 times in size and then the light blinked out towards the center of the light. It was round in shape and started as a pin dot then the dot was moving downward and after about 5 seconds moving slowly downward the brightness and size grew very quickly and then when it was its brightest it quickly shrank toward the center and waa as gone.
There was mo streaking from a meteor or no smoke nothing and it moved slowly downward. This was the most amazing thing I ever saw and the brightest brighter then the sun and was pure I mean pure white with such intensity. No sound.
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MADAR Node 93.
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Large Green and Red Flashing Lights - Low Flying Craft 12/26/2019 Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY At approximately 7PM I was driving down the block heading west towards the shore about two blocks east of Shore Road. While driving I saw extremely low flying craft of a shape that I was unable to determine. It was flashing very large green and red lights.
I thought that perhaps it had something to do with the Christmas holiday. It was flying so low that I thought for a second that it might be a drone. But its size was much too large for that to be the case.
Since I was driving I was unable to get a clear look at it. I thought it was a helicopter but it just didn’t seem consistent with that for a few reasons. Firstly, the height at which it was flying and the speed at which it was moving didn’t seem like normal operations for a helicopter.
If it was a helicopter flying at that height it should have produced a fairly loud sound and I have no recollection of there being the well-known buzz of a chopper. I was able to see it for maybe ten seconds at most, focusing on the road and glancing up to try to get a look at it. By the time I was able to pull over, within 30 seconds tops there was no sight of it whatsoever, nor was there any residual sound.
Since I witnessed this in NYC I was hoping someone else might be able to corroborate my account or got a better look at it and was able to identify what kind of craft it was. That’s why I’ve submitted the report here.
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Ny Abductee Records Inside A UFO Sending Clear Video Footage Must See!!! Ny Abductee Records Inside A Mothership UFO. It Shows A Alien Humanoid That Appears From Outta Nowhere & A Disk UFO That Was Inside Of It. I Say Mothership Because The UFO Disk Was Inside Of It.
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An unusual Christmas Day present! I looked out my back door window on a sunny day to watch a bird on my porch and I saw a bright, shiny ball of light rising up in the sky above the trees. I didn't know what it was and continued to watch it make a sharp left turn, then it made a sharp right turn, like a zigzag, and then it shot straight up into the sky and disappeared!.
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MADAR Node 85.
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7 UFOs Christmas Eve Upstate NY Rising Vertically one at a time each 3 bright red lights While looking at big pole barn with huge point of lights christmas display shining on barn and into the sky Christmas Eve, I turned around just before pulling electric cord out to turn lights off and noticed 1 bright red orange light with 2 smaller lights same color on each side of the bigger light in middle .As I continued to stare it slowly vertically continued to rise just aboe the mountain peak and another exact same 3 lights in same formation rose right underneath it. This happened again 7 times until My wife and I saw all 7 crafts slowly bouncing around and flickering in a vertical pattern as if looking directly at the pole barn with all the Christmas display lights on it.
I asked my wife to quickly get phone and record.she ran inside and in that time the lower craft and its lights slowly flickered and went out one after the other until only the original craft was left still lit which eventuallly slowly flickered out as well.My wife was able to snap a quick picture which we have of the last craft still lit.
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Two saucer shaped crafts moving at high rates of speed and stopping suddenly near Brooklyn, NY. Early evening of Friday the 23rd my girlfriend and I were walking our dog towards the east river in Brooklyn Heights, when we spotted a red light flying unlike any other aircraft we’ve ever seen. It moved at a high rate of speed, low in the sky, but above the planes and helicopters taking off from local airports.
First one craft was spotted as it moved extremely fast and then stopped on a dime, hovering, and then descended slowly in the sky, to then stop and hover again. Multiple red and white lights, and one green light appearing and disappearing in very peculiar patterns unlike any traditional aircraft lights that flash on and off. We located another one in the sky moving in the same pattern with one green light.
As the first craft moved very slowly in the sky coming closer to our location you could see the red lights on the craft wrapped around the structure which allowed us to make out the shape as saucer like. Both crafts not in unison were zipping back ! and forth until they made their way southeast in the sky and we lost visibility.
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Low flying aircraft with red lights and no sound. My son and I saw some type of aircraft that had a triangle, square and rectangle shape with red/ orange lights. It was hovering low with no sound.
No flashing lights. We turned around to try and take a photo but it was gone.
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Star-like object that moved slowly over course of an hour. Witnessed a star-like object that moved very slowly west over an hour. Seemed to disappear almost and then brighten.
Movement very slow it would appear a star if it wasn't watched for a long period.
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Disc Shape Hovering, I was driving on 52 headed East/Northeast and saw eight white lights in a row hovering in the sky. at first I thought it was an airplane but it wasn’t moving. It was completely stationary.
As I drove closer I could start to make out the shape of the craft as a on long spherical disc shape. I thought maybe it was a large helicopter the way is hovered but the size was much too big and it was flying too high to be a helicopter. As I started to stare at it longer, I saw what looked like an object fall from the bottom of it.
I panicked because I thought it might hit the ground or injure someone but then it appeared to be just a falling star in the sky. In the sheer seconds it took for that to process in my brain, I blinked and the craft was completely gone.
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It was hovering over my back yard for about 10 mins then it just vanished or maybe just turned off its lights. Had no sound. Interesting video.
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2 sets of 6 large rotating white lights in Hewlett, N.Y. i was putting the trash out at about 8 pm on 12/20/19.
I often look up in the sky but tonight was different. I looked up into the sky, which was cloudy. Directly overhead, I could easily see 6 large circular lights rotating clockwise.
The light was white, but not very bright and shining down into the bottom of the cloud like it was coming from inside of the cloud. Just east of these, there were another 6 lights rotating counter clockwise. They were of the same white color and also not bright.
There was no noise that I could hear. I went inside to call my wife and she also saw them. We couldn't believe what we were seeing.
These lights were up there rotating until we went to bed at 1 am, so they were there more than 5 hours.
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There were 6or 7 circles going around and around.No lights just circles.Floating right in front of the building.
After an hour the sky was clear and had the stars out.Than at 2am the circles were back again.
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MADAR Node 85.
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12/16/2019 syr my. 3 saucers were reported to the police and they did not believe me.911 wrote it off like if it was a joke.
Circler craft with different colors of lights as low as 100ft shooting straight up to be about where jets fly. Hovering and going from left to right very quickly.
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6 floating crafts flashing red and white lights spotted at 5am in Brooklyn on 12/12 This is not the first time I have seen alien craft outside of my window at my home in Brooklyn. The first time was in October and I swear I almost got abducted. But the one I’m reporting now is from two days ago.
I am of sound mind and completely sober at the time of these events. I am 21 and have been living at this address for just over a year. I was sitting on my couch minding my own business on Youtube at 5am 2 days ago, when I noticed a strange, red flashing light above a neighboring building from the corner of my eye coming from my window to my right side.
I disregarded it as a warning for helicopters and planes flying low. However, a couple minutes later I noticed another red flashing light right next to it. That caused me to get up and look out my window.
To my amazement, I saw 6 red lights stuck in the air like light bulbs all flashing in a syncopated manner. There might have been more but I only noticed 6. Five of them were in a line across the ! sky and 1 was above them.
These crafts were 100% not helicopters, planes, or any other flying craft that I am aware of. They stayed stationary in the sky for close to an hour before all dispersing one by one in different directions slowly. I captured them on video.
I snapchatted them to all my friends and no one could explain what they were. They alternated flashing from white to red. However the red light that they illuminated was unable to be captured on my phone.
Only the white light that they made was. And I can't explain how but I'm pretty sure they knew that I was watching them because every single time I left the window after being bored from watching them (because they were literally just boring flashing lights in the sky) and then returned to my window, there would be one flying away. This all occurred before sunrise early Thursday morning and I saw the last two fly away right before the sunrise.
I have video evidence and I will email it to you. In the video ! I am filming the crafts from my fire escape on the third floor! of my a partment building. While we are on the topic of aliens I do want to talk about my encounter in October as well because that was WAY scarier.
This was just one craft and it came directly to my backyard and I was standing feet away from it. I noticed it the same way I noticed these red flying crafts; out of the corner of my eye while I was sitting on my couch. Except this time it was October 15th and 9pm.
I heard a fleet of helicopters flying around my house for about an hour. I thought that this was very suspicious but I didn't think much of it. Then, out of my window from the corner of my eye, I noticed what appeared to be a helicopter fly down into my backyard.
I ran right to my window because I was like, “What is a helicopter doing flying down into my backyard in brooklyn?”. When I approached the window I did NOT see a helicopter. I saw a pyramid shaped craft directly in front of my fire escape.
Im talking like feet in front of it. I was absolutely petrified. It was a translucent craft ab! out the size of a small helicopter (think buzzard helicopter in GTA 5 for scale).
It spun around in the craziest way possible. It didn't spin on any particular axis it just spun in every direction imaginable. Maybe it was changing shape, I don’t know.
It made a loud droning humming noise similar to a heater which could be heard in addition to the fleet of helicopters (yet I did not see any helicopters anywhere i just heard the fleet of them in addition to the droning of this crazy craft.) This triangular craft also had the ability to be completely invisible phasing in and out of reality at will. Most of the time it was translucent but it would switch from being translucent to invisible.
Then at one point, it was completely present. When I saw it, the colors of it were almost unearthly. The triangle was this weird whitish/silverish color and this bright red light illuminated from the center of it.
But it wasn't red. It was like a billion different reds and oranges at once! . My primitive guess on the situation was that it was trying ! to signa l to me by showing me light frequencies that are visible to the human eye.
I had a thought to get closer to it and get on my fire escape, but after lifting the window, I was entirely too scared to go through with it. I didnt even lift the screen before slamming the window shut for protection and so I just continued staring at this thing I might never see again in my entire life. After a good 5-10 minutes of staring at this thing, I decided to rush to get my phone on the couch to capture it on snapchat.
But once again, I felt like this thing knew what I was thinking and doing and in the 10 seconds I went to get my phone, it had gone back to translucent. It was essentially invisible by the time i tried to take a video of it but you can STILL SORT OF see it in the video that I captured its just quite difficult because it is 90 percent gone. But you can still see the outline of this triangular craft.
I still have this video and look at it constantly. After I first recorde! d it, the translucent craft floated away and I stared at my 30 second recording on repeat for about 30 minutes still in shock before I sent it out as a snapchat. Most people I sent this video to disregarded it as nonsense but two people responded that they totally saw what I was talking about.
This translucent pyramid craft. This was one of the scariest moments of my life. And unless there is a government in this world that has access to shape shifting, non jet or propeller propulsion crafts that can phase in and out of reality at will, I am certain I saw aliens right in front of my eyes that day.
New York UFO Sightings From 2019 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 35 reported sightings | 17.86% of all reports |
Circle | 34 reported sightings | 17.35% of all reports |
Triangle | 15 reported sightings | 7.65% of all reports |
Sphere | 14 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Other | 14 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Unknown | 13 reported sightings | 6.63% of all reports |
Disk | 10 reported sightings | 5.10% of all reports |
Cigar | 10 reported sightings | 5.10% of all reports |
Fireball | 9 reported sightings | 4.59% of all reports |
Formation | 6 reported sightings | 3.06% of all reports |
Cylinder | 6 reported sightings | 3.06% of all reports |
Changing | 5 reported sightings | 2.55% of all reports |
Flash | 4 reported sightings | 2.04% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 1.02% of all reports |
Cross | 2 reported sightings | 1.02% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 1.02% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.51% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.51% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.51% of all reports |
New York UFO Sightings From 2019 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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September | 35 reported sightings | 17.86% of all reports |
October | 28 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
July | 26 reported sightings | 13.27% of all reports |
December | 25 reported sightings | 12.76% of all reports |
August | 18 reported sightings | 9.18% of all reports |
November | 15 reported sightings | 7.65% of all reports |
January | 12 reported sightings | 6.12% of all reports |
May | 12 reported sightings | 6.12% of all reports |
June | 9 reported sightings | 4.59% of all reports |
April | 8 reported sightings | 4.08% of all reports |
February | 5 reported sightings | 2.55% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 1.53% of all reports |
New York UFO Sightings From 2019 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 35 reported sightings | 17.86% of all reports |
Monday | 33 reported sightings | 16.84% of all reports |
Thursday | 33 reported sightings | 16.84% of all reports |
Wednesday | 32 reported sightings | 16.33% of all reports |
Friday | 29 reported sightings | 14.80% of all reports |
Sunday | 17 reported sightings | 8.67% of all reports |
Tuesday | 17 reported sightings | 8.67% of all reports |
New York UFO Sightings From 2019 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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09/19/19 | 5 reported sightings | 2.55% of all reports |
09/07/19 | 4 reported sightings | 2.04% of all reports |
07/04/19 | 4 reported sightings | 2.04% of all reports |
11/30/19 | 3 reported sightings | 1.53% of all reports |
12/23/19 | 3 reported sightings | 1.53% of all reports |
New York UFO Sightings From 2019 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 96 reported sightings | 48.98% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 29 reported sightings | 14.80% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 27 reported sightings | 13.78% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 21 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 14 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 9 reported sightings | 4.59% of all reports |
All New York Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in New York, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in New York
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in New York.