Gotham may soon need parking meteors.
The Big Apple registered 30 UFO sightings with the National UFO Reporting Center last year, up 7% from the 28 flying saucers seen in 2022 and 10% from the 27 in 2021.
A pill-shaped object spotted on Oct. 28 over McGuire Fields was one of the 12 UFOs reported in Brooklyn, which led the city to spacey sightings.
“We saw something that looked strange in the sky. I have video and pictures but what I saw with the naked eye is something I never saw before,” the transfixed observer wrote in his post to the Washington state-based database.
An “egg-shaped” UFO was at the center of a July 30 close encounter in Bay Ridge, captured on two videos.
The poster and his mom were taking a walk when “we started seeing a . . . bright light moving differently than any other flying object or airplane.”
A true believer in Bedford-Stuyvesant lodged a report on June 13 of a “freely rotating tic-tac shaped metallic, reflective object that suddenly disappeared.”
The observer — who included a 70-second clip — added: “I looked away for 5-10 seconds and it was gone. It would have to have moved 100s of miles per hour to disappear from my field of view in the time that I looked away.”
Manhattan reported nine extraterrestrial experiences, followed by Staten Island with five.
Otherworldly tourists visited Queens and the Bronx twice each.
The truthers often claim to see “orbs,” “circles” and “cylinders.”
One stunned individual reported a bright light hovering over the Empire State Building on the afternoon of Aug. 1 and included a video of the hovering craft he eyed for 25 minutes, according to the database.
A Staten Islander was putting out the garbage . . . Jan. 20 when he spotted “two formations of orange objects seen crossing sky.”
He noted: “My attention was drawn to what I thought were 3 aircraft flying in an odd formation past and a little higher (in perspective) than the neighboring rooftops across the street. Each had one orange light, with no other lights visible. “
Overall, there were 156 sightings of flying saucers across the state this year, the UFO Reporting Center stats show.
The Center, founded in 1974, “makes no claims as to the validity of the information in any of these reports,” the website says, but “obvious hoaxes have been omitted.”
Most reports “have been posted exactly as received in the author’s own words.”
“I believe we are being visited by extraterrestrials on a regular basis,” Peter Davenport, 75, who directs the Center, told The Post.
The Center’s webmaster, Christian Stepien, said the tin foil hat jokes stopped in July when former Air Force officer and intelligence official David Grusch told Congress he believes the government is hiding captured UFOs.
“There’s been a lot of buzz about UFOs and what the government’s been clamping down on for all these years, ” Stepien, 64, noted. “We’re obviously happy that things are more out in the open — that there’s more open discussion. It should have been that way a long time ago.”
Stepien believes only 5% of those individuals who see UFOs report them.
As for why there has yet to be that definitive “take us to your leader” UFO video, the Western New York native quipped, “They seem to be willing to fly their ships around in front of everybody’s eyes, but they don’t make public appearances.”
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