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Video: Close Encounters Above Central Park?

Are aliens checking out Manhattan? One man says he filmed a "red craft" UFO for four nights straight this month, and has some footage to back up his claim. He says he filmed from The Great Hill in Central Park, saying, "When I started filming, it hovers about then suddenly I descends near the Reservoir. Slowly and vanishes. After about 30 min, when I got home, It popped up again for about 40 more minutes and morphed into a Plane... I know its sounds crazy... Its been out for about 4 nights so far... For some reason it knows I'm filming it."

Paranoid? Hoax? Too much liquid marijuana? Or are things about to get all Independence Day up in here...

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  • Dwayne Hoover

    Maybe the aliens read the FAA rules.

  • cjp42

    why would an alien spacecraft need a flashing red light? if it were trying to observe without being noticed (i'm guessing, since if it wanted to be noticed it would have done something less subtle), why would it require the light at all? just to avoid collision with earth-air-crafts?



    so, after traveling light-years through space in a sophisticated piece of alien technology, you are telling me that it needs a blinking red light to avoid a 737 while it spies (in plain sight of idiots everywhere) on Woody Allen's UES condo?



    these paparazzi aliens need to get a life...

  • sowhtifithppnsitwll

    Maybe it's aliens looking at our water reserves wondering why we are blowing the shit out of their home looking for water?

  • Mr. Know-It-All

    I should be more embarrassed to admit I watched this nonsense for this long, but in the close-up it's pretty clear that that's not a helicopter; it's a laser light. Someone's pulsing it on and off and jiggling it quickly back and forth and it's reflecting off the cloud cover.

  • Snoopy

    It could also be reflections off the clouds of cars that are approaching the Lincoln Tunnel and using their turn signals to change lanes.

  • NannyState

    "One small step for a Znargh, one giant leap for Znarghkind!"

  • Snoopy

    Funny you should mention Znargh's. Just the other night I was at 1OAK and I happened to get into a conversation with a female Znargh, I must admit that Znargh women are hot, hot, hot. Unfortunately their command of English and the basic concept of communication is lacking. Perhaps when they go back to their mother ship over Central Park they will take a course on how to intercourse with us earthlings.

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  • jtj74

    "There are UFO's over New York, and I ain't too surprised"

  • pinball29

    To serve man. (dont get on!! Its a cookbook!!)

  • Wza

    This whole Droid push is annoying now.

  • zodak

    kang & kodos love messing with people.

  • rlhbomb

    If it knows you are filming it it probably knows you are a moron. Next thing he is going to tell us that ufo's are on the top of every tall building in NY, their red blinking lights speaking to him.

  • Dwayne Hoover

    Someone needs to inform this guy that flashing red lights are standard FAA collision avoidance lighting on planes.

  • Snoopy

    UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!



    I have ventured uptown to the area that these orange based ships have landed and met with the leader and his co-leaders. It appears they come from the planet Xeron in the galaxy ZV7N1205. They mean no harm. Their leader Zordov said they come in peace. All they want is the carbon and oxygen based items on our planet. I repeat his final words, "They mean no harm" so saith Zordov.



    All praise Zardov.



    Somehow I've heard the same shit in different forms for the last 4,000 years.

  • robingee

    It morphed into a plane? I once saw a dragon that morphed into a city bus.

  • the3rdbridge

    Holy crap, I need to go to bed...Seriously, one of the nicest things about living in new york is that I never worry about alien abduction.

  • Snoopy

    Strangely enough considering there are probably several thousand New Yorkers out there with camera phones and other more sophisticated recording devices that have not confirmed and documented the sitings as well as this individual.



    "For some reason it knows I'm filming it." Like extraterrestrial beings would give a shit if some unemployed wacko is filming them. They traveled eight billion light years to come here and they are shifting their plans because a guy got a deal on a ten meg camera with motion capture at B&H photo?



    If you want a real laugh check out one of the supreme comics of our time, Dan Akroyd, doing his thing about UFO's.



    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDyWZmMtqg

  • Willie Nillie

    It's the big gay ice cream truck

  • r1b2

    It didn't HAVE TO be crappy videography. That's only if you're shooting Bigfoot.

  • Is there some decent footage of this? We live in the 21st century--why isn't this in 1080p?? How is he going to prove that aliens exist with that crappy, low-rez footage?



    Come on.



    I don't take anything below 720 seriously. We've got to have standards, people.



    >_

  • PSS

    Alien family admitted to setting up this hoax to make themselves marketable to a Art Bell 'Coast to Coast' segment.



    The 232 year old alien toddler was hidden in plain view, sporting a 'Che' t-shirt, offering pedicab rides in Columbus Circle.

  • butterbutter

    dude. set the camera down and prop it up if you didn't have a tripod.



    second. don't shoot through trees.



    third. it's a helicopter.

  • TheKlaus

    great content choice.

  • SC

    I find this grainy, night-time video of a blinking light moving through one of the most congested urban airspaces in the world to be incredibly convincing.



    The truth is out there.



    And it's a helicopter.

  • Wza

    It's a helicopter at night spazzing out.

    Durr.

    Smh..

  • hotstepper

    watch your back nerdman, with all that fancy equipment in the park at night. CP is gritty baby.

  • valeriob

    Is there NO approval process to what gets posted here?

  • dk28

    Purple monkey dishwasher.



    (No.)

  • just saying

    I never realized that "magic" mushrooms could also be found Central Park.

  • Shinobi Shaw

    Most people don't know that most UFO sightings and abductions happen in the ASTRAL PLANE and that abductions are extremely rare in the physical.



    Occasionally you may se an interblend between the two planes and we have the result seen in the video (meaning the two planes of existences are interwoven).



    This may have been an intelligence that 'crossed' over between the ASTRAL and the PHYSICAL.

  • nivek

    Maybe you should go on a coffee date with felixthecat2

  • Shinobi Shaw

    And from our perspective we see Astral objects as luminous lights of luminosity (hence the name 'Astral' because the starry substances interblend).

  • seven

    Um...I think you call that a helicopter.

  • Quenepa

    Thank goodness he sees it being the only one in Central Park at night! If not for him then who?

  • whatstheproblem

    Of course it's a UFO. The guy filming it is also clearly a professionally trained UFO observer. How could you question such high quality footage of an event in New York? Especially at the end when the UFO gets lower and lower.

  • barryap

    You know those aliens, always hovering over places like NYC where there's no one around to see them.

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