New York City
LocationNew York City
LocationDense U.S. metropolis whose crowded skies and media reach have made local sightings—including John Lennon's 1974 account—part of UFO culture.
Dense U.S. metropolis whose crowded skies and media reach have made local sightings—including John Lennon's 1974 account—part of UFO culture.
New York City is one of the world's most observed urban environments, surrounded by major airports, controlled airspace, helicopter routes, dense high-rise lighting, and heavy media coverage. Those conditions generate a steady stream of unfamiliar lights and videos, but they also supply many conventional candidates—aircraft, balloons, drones, advertising, celestial objects, and reflections—that can be difficult to judge from a short street-level view.
The city's most durable celebrity account came from John Lennon. Lennon and May Pang said they saw a brightly lit, disc-like object from their Manhattan apartment in August 1974. Lennon referred to the experience publicly, including in the liner notes to Walls and Bridges, and it became part of his New York biography. The account is testimony from two observers rather than a sensor-documented case, and no surviving image establishes what they saw.
New York's cultural reach magnifies sightings that might remain local elsewhere. News helicopters, rooftop cameras, and millions of phones can produce multiple views, but viral circulation often strips away direction, time, lens behavior, and air-traffic context. Modern reports over Queens, Manhattan, and the harbor therefore range from quickly identified objects to cases that remain unresolved because the available footage is too limited—not because the city itself has been established as a single zone of unusual activity.
The city matters to UAP history as a setting where personal experience, celebrity, journalism, and urban observation meet. Lennon's story shows how one reported sighting can persist for decades through a witness's cultural influence. More recent videos are best treated as individual events tied to exact neighborhoods and times rather than added indiscriminately to a generalized New York legend.
cigar-shaped, submarine-like objects often reported to come from under water and then fly in the air was photographed over New York City on March 20, 1950. The photographer's name was deleted from Project Blue Book's file, as were most names when the material was released, including these two photographs.
Today is the 52nd anniversary of John Lennon's UFO sighting!!! Do celebrity sightings actually help move the needle towards disclosure of UFOs/ NHI? Sure it increases talk of the topic but does it reduce the whole Phenomenon to a funny anecdote and feed into the noisy spectacle that the UFO topic has endured since the 1950s? &list=RD94oS9XM4fgY&start_radio=1 sighting, John Lennon and May Pang Time: morning of 8/23/1974 Location: New York City Here is...
Just a couple of old New York City street rats smoking a butt. Thanks for the light, @MitchHorowitz 🔥 https://t.co/ZuZ7NmkV3J
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6/28/26 @ 9:45pm. Saw this the other night and then looked up and there it was again tonight, exact same location, behaving the exact same way. I checked my SkyView app, it’s not a planet, or a star. Stationary for hrs on end so not a plane or helicopter. Thought maybe a drone but considering how bright that light is and how high it is, I doubt it’s a drone. Appears to be just above the tip of the battery down past Fidi I assume over open water or Jersey. I’m facing west looking from downtown...
Time: 6/24 at 10am EST Location: 20-30 miles northwest of New York City I took a 10am flight out of LaGuardia this morning and as the plane was climbing out of NYC, a small metallic orb flew right past my window. It was exactly like other videos I had seen but I wasn’t quick enough to take a picture or video since it flew past us in the opposite direction. I was pretty taken aback for a while, but just wanted to share as a long time reader of this sub. This was my first experience with someth...
Just found this from last year. Sorry, couldn't figure out how to cut the sound because of my conversation with a neighbor. I thought it was a rocket, but we live 40 min north of NYC, so not sure how we would have seen something like this. Never seen anything like it before. Lmk what you guys think please and thank you.
This is wonderful. Wish I could have been in that crowd. Watched the game in a local bar and it hasn't sunk in quite yet. Champions! Wound up meeting this great couple, and what started out as basketball convos, turned into UFOs, Grusch, AAWSAP, Hitchhikers, and more. Loved it. [Quoted] 🚨BREAKING: Everybody in New York City is outside singing Empire State of Mind in the streets https://t.co/PVPlAJ7pn0
RT @MattLaslo: "Dear Leader @hakeemjeffries, Since 2006, I’ve proudly covered New York City for WNYC & WFUV, Long Island for WSHU and upst…
