The Empire State recorded 8,314 UFO sightings since 1974, or one for every 1,003 residents. Delaware holds the top spot.
New York has climbed two places to rank third among the most likely states in the United States for alien abductions, according to Casino.ca's annual ranking published to mark National Alien Abduction Day on 20 March. The gambling guide compiled the list by sifting through 150,000 sighting entries on the National UFO Reporting Center covering the period between 1974 and 2026, cross-referenced with social media data for sighting details , to calculate UFO sightings per capita across all fifty states. The list arrives at a moment of renewed public interest in UFOs and extraterrestrial life, weeks after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to release classified government files on extraterrestrial life and UFOs, and days after two new federal government website domains related to aliens were registered by a US agency, fuelling fresh speculation about what the government may be preparing to disclose.
