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UFO Sighting Over 9/11 Memorial, New York At UFO Alert Level 3!

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All you gullible sheep out there will glance at this photo and dismiss it as just a pizza box blowing in the wind, and that's fine. That's how you live your lives, head buried in the sand as the lizard people in The Syndicate tighten their greasy grip around your complacent throats! But the Mutual UFO Network knows better. A photographer shooting lower Manhattan from The New Museum recently snapped several shots of this mysterious, diamond shaped UFO in the air near the World Trade Center site, and he or she wants to believe. On the UFO sighting message board, this person writes:

The event occurred last Saturday 9-17-2011. In the early afternoon. I was taking digital photographs from the roof terrace of the new Museum located on Bowery in Manhattan's Lower East Side. I was shooting a series of images of the downtown Manhattan skyline to get some pictures of the Freedom tower construction.

Because I had no tripod I was shooting at a very fast exposure rate 1/500th of a second. In addition I was shooting in continuous mode at a frame rate of about 4 Frames per second. I took my pictures and left the location. Last night upon looking at the images, I noticed a diamond shaped object moving very close to the horizon in four frames of my images.

On closer inspection I noticed what appeared to be regular markings and windows on the craft. I had to be moving at an incredible rate of speed for it to have moved as far as it did give the frame rate it was captured at. It seems to be faintly emitting both blue and red light from the openings on its back area. A helicopter was also present in the nearby vicinity. At first I thought it was a flag or something, but soon realized there was no flag pole and from frame to frame it's shape stays regular. I'm hoping an expert in this type of thing can help me to rule out any other possible explanations for what they think this might be.

The Examiner (ahem) reports that New York State is a current UFO ALERT 3 rating, with a high number of UFO sightings nationally. New York had 46 reports in August 2011, the 5th highest reporting state. The last time we recall this happening was in Williamsburg, so it seems the aliens, having tired of probing hipsters, are now more interested in studying how our pitiful government wastes billions of dollars. We wish them luck, and hope they know not to get caught taking photos! [Via Bowery Boogie]

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  • Christopher Pappas
    Here's another example of the same type of ufo recently spotted over texas:

    http://projectavalon.net/forum...
  • Yes! Time to go put my Scully power suit on!
  • Look. I'm open minded to this sort of thing but if we are run by the lizard people why'd they let everything crash?
  • robingee
    The aliens are tired of flying over Nebraska and came here to find some decent bagels.
  • Tim Schreier
    Why didnt NYPD shoot it down?  or pepper spray it at least?
  • I told you this was going to happen.  I blogged about it last year.  http://www.hereforthewrongreas...

    Don't say you weren't warned.
  • angry_pickle
    Yeah sure. Millions of people in NYC and a pizza box UFO flies over in broad daylight and nobody sees it except him.
  • notreallyfunny
    Nothing to see here. Just move along...
  • ButtPlugs
    I believe!!! Ya'll are just haterz
  • 6Doctor6Strangelove6
    Why do you play with doubtful imagery? Why not show them the real "things?" On Youtube, there are tons of more convincing images of "Grey Aliens" in 1942.
  • nayerr
    Well, I've seen things over the skies on NYC that aren't supposed to be there more than once, so I'm not counting anything out. If the US government tell us that theres no such thing as UFO's then guess what? there probably is such a thing.
  • pendejito
    Damn out of towner! Its NOT a UFO and nobody cares how fast your camera takes pictures.
  • By definition anything Flying that is Unidentified and is obviously some sort of Object is a UFO. UFOs don't necessarily come from outer space.
  • Mike_Nesmith
    It's a banner hanging off the side of the building.
  • colonelcasey
    This person is a moron.  Planes fly over the Hudson all the time with those stupid ad banners flapping behind them.
  • MattyGC
    I mean, like when reading the comments on this board, sometimes I think to myself "these people exist?" And then I look at the people around me, and I get scared...
  • MattyGC
    It amazes me how many functioning insane people there are in our society.
  • Politburo
    There are also real-life trolls, and this may be an example of that.

    But I guess the two aren't mutually exclusive..
  • Give the guy a break - he wasn't sure what it was, so from his point of view it actually WAS an unidentified flying object.
  • ennuipoet
    There is a reason why no actual civilizations from the cosmos would ever visit us, and that reason is people who see a banner advertisement towed by a plane and think it is an UFO.
  • CityFace
    You've tried the rest, now try the best, Earthman!
  • FU Boy
    It's obviously an Urkan cloaking device.  Any reports of rubber piggies running amok in the area as well?
  • diablofreak
    I, for one, welcome our new pepperonian overlords.
  • HJaySimpson
    Its a Geico Ad from a banner airplane. See the gecko on the bottom left?
  • The parallelograms are here!!
  • pendejito
    Its obvioulsy a banner from one of those Ad Planes that fly by the beach.
  • sluggita
    Looks like a piece of newspaper, you can see the column grid! Where are the supposed lights?
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