"Mystery shiny objects floating over Manhattan spark UFO frenzy"

[Rman]

A mysterious shiny object floating high over Manhattan's West Side set off a flurry of reports and wild speculation Wednesday that a UFO was flying over the city.

Police and the FAA said they began getting flooded with calls starting at 1:30 p.m. from people reporting a silvery object hovering high over Chelsea. Other reports and a video noted several objects in the sky.

Law enforcement sources said they believed the object was likely some sort of balloon, but as of late Wednesday they had not confirmed exactly what it is.

A Daily News reporter could see a tiny, silver dot floating approximately 5,000 feet above 23th St. and Eighth Ave., where dozens of people gathered late in the afternoon to catch a glimpse.

"It's been hovering there for a while. I'm just kind of baffled," said Joseph Torres, 49, of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, who spotted the object after leaving a movie. "How can it be ordinary? There is something going on."

Despite clear skies, it was not easy to make out the tiny object shimmering overhead.

"You really have to look up to see it," said one witness, who gave only his first name, Rico. "It's a little crazy. I guess that's why they call it an unidentified flying object because they don't know what it is."

Not long after the first sightings, messages began appearing on Twitter linking to a month-old press release announcing the publication of a book by a retired NORAD officer predicting that UFOs would buzz the earth's major cities on Oct. 13.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it received several calls to its operations center but after reviewing radar data, the agency could not find anything out of the ordinary.

"We re-ran radar to see if there was anything there that we can't account for but there is nothing in the area," said spokesman Jim Peters. "There was some helicopter traffic over the river at that time and we checked with LaGuardia Tower. And they said they had nothing going low at that time."

"Nothing that we can account for would prompt this kind of response," he said.

Peters said if it was a weather balloon or any kind of organized balloon release, authorities should have been notified in advance. Police officials said they had received no notification.

Some of my co-workers saw this yesterday.  It's right in the neighborhood I work in.

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[BlueTsunami]

"It's a little crazy. I guess that's why they call it an unidentified flying object because they don't know what it is."

 

[Great Rumbler]

Apparently they're just yellow balloons.

lol

[ManaByte]

Talking to NY Post, witness Daniel Calhoun, 52, admitted, "Common sense says it wasn't a UFO. Common sense says it was a plane or a balloon, but this thing stopped everyone in the street for two blocks. Any New Yorker will tell you, that alone is extraordinary."

Another witness as reported by NY Post, said, "I saw five or six lights shining in the sky. There was no way that thing was a balloon. There was something weird about it. Light just doesn't reflect off balloons like that. If Martians were to land anywhere, New York is a much better location than some backwoods town in the Midwest."

[ManaByte]

[Dickie Dee]

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HOLY FUCK A GIANT ALIEN EYE

[Mr. Gundam]

Let us all welcome our giant eye overlords.

[Great Rumbler]

Another witness as reported by NY Post, said, "I saw five or six lights shining in the sky. There was no way that thing was a balloon. There was something weird about it. Light just doesn't reflect off balloons like that. If Martians were to land anywhere, New York is a much better location than some backwoods town in the Midwest."

BALLOONS HOW DO THEY WORK?!

[Great Rumbler]

GUYS LOOK AT THIS PICTURE I TOOK OF ALIENS LANDING IN MY BACKYARD

[Robo]

Relax people; it is well known that our latex visitors have co-existed with human society peacefully for many decades, relying on us to give them sloppy rusty trombones for their ascent into adulthood.

[Fresh Prince]

They came from Jersey.

[Raban]

GUYS LOOK AT THIS PICTURE I TOOK OF ALIENS LANDING IN MY BACKYARD

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this made me in real life, haha

[BlueTsunami]

New York is a much better location than some backwoods town in the Midwest."

What a douche New Yorkers are even smug about New York being the place for first contact.

[Brehvolution]

GUYS LOOK AT THIS PICTURE I TOOK OF ALIENS LANDING IN MY BACKYARD

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"They're comin'' right for us!"

[Fresh Prince]

When I think of aliens from jersey I think of this

[Dickie Dee]

I wouldn't worry, they'll just be caught unawares by the thumbtacks that don't exist on their world and die out.

[Diunx]

I blame the jews for this.

[Joe Molotov]

New York is a much better location than some backwoods town in the Midwest."

What a douche New Yorkers are even smug about New York being the place for first contact.

Only New York can appreciate the level of balloon technology these aliens are capable of.

[Fresh Prince]

Terrorist and aliens agree, New York is the place to be.

[Himu]

[MyNameIsMethodis]

this isnt funny as a survivor of seeing real UFOs.