NUFORC Sighting 43454

Occurred: 2004-11-24 21:30 Local
Reported: 2005-04-13 00:48 Pacific
Duration: 0:45
No of observers: 1

Location: New York City (Manhattan), NY, USA

Shape: Light

Night-time sighting of UFO over Midtown NYC

I had just come from a gathering on West 38th Street and was walking back to my home on West 43rd up Ninth Avenue. As I reached 43rd I turned east towards 8th avenue. I live between 7th and 8th. Halfway down the block, I looked up into the sky, it was clear and I noticed a bright object making circles in the sky. The light was a bright steady white. I stopped and continued to watch as the circles that the object made tightened and at a speed that no air-craft I know of could make, not even a helicopter.

Let me say that it appeared that the object as far as I can tell was at an altitude of several thousand feet, so that the circles it was making encompassed at the beginning, I would say aproximately a mile or so in diameter and doing this in just a few seconds, as the circles it made became smaller perhaps several hundred feet were being covered. And this is what convinced me that this was no ordinary plane.

As I stood watching a man was walking towards me and I said out loud purposely to catch his attention "Yes, no doubt about it, that is a U.F.O." and I pointed. But at that very moment, before the man could turn around to look, it winked out! And that was very strange. Is it possible that this craft was aware of my observation of it from a relatively dark street below and did not want to be pointed out to others?

Have been interested in the subject of UFO's since childhood and this made me since that time a keen observer of the sky and what usually is in it. This was like nothing ever observed before and the nature of it's movement convinced me beyond a doubt that this was indeed an Unidentified Flying Object, since nothing I have ever seen or heard of when it comes to aircraft could have possibly duplicated what this object did. That it was under intelligent control I have no doubt either. Have seen balloons and other objects subject to wind currents many times in the sky, this was like neither of those.

Remarkable that far from being in a remote rural location this happened right over mid-town Manhattan! Will submit a graphic image of the observation soon.

NUFORC Note:

Possible landing light on an airliner approaching local airport? PD

Posted 2005-05-24