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Memory Of Unexplained Lights From Beneath Hudson River

 

 

From: Sambuco Sambuca <[email protected]>
Subject: Unexplained lights disappear into the Hudson River
Date: August 6, 2016 at 8:36:34 PM EDT
To: [email protected]

Greetings...this incident happened in 2011 and I reported it to Ossining town officials and to MUFON...I just watched a tv show that had a young man describing lights like I saw but they flew away into the sky and I was curious to see if there were any reports like mine...at the time MUFON invited me to show up for an interview but I declined as I have health issues and am an 80 year old 3 time cancer survivor...I feel it's important to point out that since a child in grammar school I have been a science based person requiring proof and evidence throughout my life and skeptical of many areas of societies beliefs ...
especially ufo's etc...until the following incident happened to me...I was traveling north along the east side of the Hudson in my 22ft cabin cruiser and it had just become dark as I passed under the Tappan Zee bridge...the only lights on my boat were on the bow...a 6 inch red and green light and I was staying about 100 yds off the east bank keeping the towns lights on my right to stay north to my destination of my dock in Newburgh...I noticed after passing under the bridge about 200 yds ahead of me 2 red and 3 white lights the size of car headlights would be at that distance...shooting back and forth independently as though racing back and forth ...at the distance I was looking at them I said...well...this must be some teenagers on jetskis having some fun....I started to steer left to stay away from them...I was moving very slow about 10 mph and then I saw as I was getting closer that these were lights but no jetskis...shooting back and forth about 3 or 4 feet above the water...now I decided to go closer to see what in the hell am I looking at here...as I got closer they started closing the distance between themselves still shooting back and forth about the same speed as jetskis until....oh btw...this incident took place in about10 or 15 minutes...they came together on the surface now about 50 ft from my boat and I decided then...admittedly a little scared of I didn't know what...to slowly approach to get a real good look...I did...and I looked right over the edge of my boat that I stopped now and the 2 red lights and 3 white lights were the size of grapefruits and formed in a circle the size of a large pizza...what struck me immediately was that the lights were shining UP FROM BELOW as though from bright flashlights...then...and this was really thought provoking...they started to approach each other as though "kissing" ...is the only way I can describe it...and then after a minute or so they started spinning slowly in a circular clockwise motion and faster and faster and spun down into the deep till I didn't see them anymore....
I often think of this incident and wonder but know that I will never know in my short life remaining what in the hell did I witness...have you any reports over the years of similar sightings...sincerely....ss

 

UFO Makes Surprise Appearence Above Paranormal Conference In Blackpool ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2795292/we-want-believe-silver-dome-shaped-object-spotted-sky-paranormal-conference-ufo.html

We want to believe: Is this silver dome-shaped object spotted in the sky above a paranormal conference a UFO?

• A silver object was captured on film by UFO believers at a conference
• It hovered in the sky for an hour before vanishing under passing clouds
• Hundreds attended the Probe International Conference in Blackpool
• Organisers saw a silver cylindrical object at a meeting three years ago 

By Jenny Awford for MailOnline

This is the silver dome-shaped object spotted by hundreds of UFO believers at a paranormal conference.

Footage of the glowing light was captured by a film crew at the Probe International Conference in Blackpool on Sunday, prompting references to the X Files, with its slogan 'I want to believe'.

Onlookers said they thought the UFO was a balloon at first but it hovered in the sky for an hour before vanishing from sight under the cover of passing clouds.

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The silver dome-shaped object in the sky above the Probe International Conference in Blackpool

 

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Onlookers said they thought the UFO was a balloon at first but it hovered in the sky for an hour before vanishing from sight under the cover of passing clouds

This is not the first time Sam Wright, 70, from Blackpool, who runs Probe International, and his followers have seen a UFO at their conference.

He said: 'We have one or two conferences a year over a weekend and they are attended very well by around 400 people or more over the two days.

'I've seen UFOs and ghosts but I don't really like to talk about it because people think you're an idiot.

'We last saw one three years ago at a conference but only about 20 people saw a silver cylindrical object zoom past us very fast.

 

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Around 200 people attended the conference, which attracts guest speakers from around the world flock to discuss crop circles, paranormal phenomenon and UFOs

 

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Organisers said this isn't the first time they have spotted a UFO at their conference, as 20 people saw a silver cylindrical object zoom past three years ago

'This time the UFO stayed hovering in the sky and we were lucky we had a film crew to record and enlarge it.'

Around 200 people attended the conference, which attracts guest speakers from around the world flock to discuss crop circles, paranormal phenomenon and UFOs.

A couple spotted a mysterious flying object hovering in the night sky above their home in Eltham, south London.

Charlie and Gemma were having a cigarette outside when they noticed an unidentified object hanging motionless in the distance and took pictures on their mobiles.

 

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This strange light was seen hovering in the sky above Eltham in South London by couple Charlie and Gemma

The mystery 'UFO' spotted floating over Eltham

 

A mysterious object captured hovering above Fullabrook wind farm in Devon.

Matt Naughton, from Devon, said: 'Driving to Torrington on Thursday night, I saw strange bright lights in the sky and the car had flashes of blue in it. Very creepy!'

Erica Whiteley reported her husband had spotted something 'unusually bright' above Fullabrook - adding: 'He was joking around saying he had seen a UFO'. 

 

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A strange shape was captured floating above Fullabrook wind farm in Devon by a professional photographer

The Ministry of Defence revealed that around 2,000 UFO sightings nationally have been reported between 2000 and 2009.

But the government's UFO hotline - or 'X-Files desk' - was closed in 2009.

Documents from The National Archives showed there were more than 600 that year, more than double the previous year and three times the usual sightings per year.

Can you see it? 'UFO' spotted near International Space Station

 

 

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New York Harbor WebCam Records UFO Hovering Over Battery

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UFO Caught on Hudson River Web Cam (Video)

by Tom Rose

 

A UFO was caught on a web cam trained on lower Manhattan as it hovered in the sky before zooming out of view. What is it?

The unidentified flying object suddenly appears at the 2:00 minute mark on the 4 minute video, casting a reflection in the waters around the Battery Park section of lower NYC. It hovers, motionless, for another minute before flying off out of camera range in the westering sky.

While the object may be a helicopter, the enlarged image doesn't match up with that profile. Also, the object flashes multi-colored lights, some of which are not the standard running lights for aircraft flying over the city.

The UFO suddenly appears on what looks to be a condensed, time-lapse outtake from the webcam video and seems to change shape and color as it floats in the sky. It makes for a spooky, mysterious sighting.

Here's the video:

Image courtesy of Blogger

 

 

 

El Paso UFO Resemble New York City Balloons ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1321751/After-New-York-UFO-sightings-explain-mirror-image-El-Paso.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

They said the 'UFO' over New York was just balloons... so how do they explain the mirror image over El Paso?

 DAILY MAIL REPORTER

It could, of course, just be an amazing coincidence.

First New York was gripped by sightings of UFOs in the sky last week. The fears were quickly debunked by the claim that the 'UFOs' were actually balloons released from a nearby school.

But this weekend lights forming a mirror image of the pattern seen in the sky over New York have been seen in El Paso, Texas - immediately sparking speculation that the little green men have moved down south.

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First New York... now El Paso? Left, what New Yorkers saw in the Big Apple on Wednesday. Right, what Texans saw over El Paso on the weekend

 

Witnesses in El Paso flooded local police stations and newsrooms with phone calls. Many reported seeing the same sequence of events in the night sky. 

First one light appeared to cascade from the heavens, separating into three, each with a tail behind it.

Then they are seen solidifying into three dots forming a triangle - a triangle that was the mirror image of the three 'balloons' in New York.

Next a fourth light appeared, the lights appearing to hover in the air - and then, suddenly, they all went out.

Because it was dark, it seems unlikely that these lights are balloons.

The lights were captured on video and have sparked a frenzy of speculation, especially after a local news station pointed out the simliarity between them and the sightings over New York last week.

The mysterious objects hovered over the West Side of the Big Apple, causing thousands of New Yorkers to wonder what exactly they were seeing.

Mystery: Local witnesses reporting first seeing a single light cascade from the sky

 

Then, suddenly, the light split in to three parts

The three lights then solidified into three points as they appeared to hover over El Paso

Suddenly a fourth light appeared - and then all four went out. The lights have not yet been explained

Traffic had ground to a halt and pedestrians stopped in their tracks to look skyward at the cluster of dots hovering overhead.

But those objects turned out to be nothing other than wayward party balloons from a school in Mount Vernon.

Angela Freeman, headteacher of the Milestone School in Westchester said she was astonished at all the attention her decorations caused: 'It was just a freak thing. Frankly, I'm shocked by it'.

The cluster of balloons were apparently inadvertently launched when a parent bought the balloons in for a celebration at the suburban school.

'The kids had an engagement party for a teacher, and a mother brought four dozen balloons, and she's coming through the door. It is very windy in Mount Vernon. Suddenly, 12 of the balloons let loose,' Freeman explained.

The truth is up there: Traffic ground to a halt and thousands looked to the skies at the strange object whizzing over Manhattan

New Yorkers came to a standstill as they watched the lights in the sky last week

As for the lights in El Paso this weekend, speculation is rife on the internet - and no definitive explanation has yet been given.

Many have suggested a military explanation. One observer at Headhot wrote: 'They are magnesium flares on parachutes. They are used to light up battlefields.

'A single mortar is launched, then the three flares ignite and drift down on parachutes. Then they burn out and go dark.

'Odds are there was some national guard training going on.'

Other users suggested they were a night skydiving team practicing for an airshow. 

In New York, the shiny balloons which were meant for language arts teacher Andrea Crapara were released at around 1pm. The first 'UFO' sighting was just thirty minutes later.

NYPD revealed that the sightings prompted several 911 calls and brought parts of the Chelsea district to a complete standstill.

Mystery: Police and the Federal Aviation Authority were deluged with calls and despite mounting an investigation were unable to ascertain what it was

Veteran UFO spotters had come forward even before the school balloon explanation and were cynical that the object floating in the sky would be unexplained.

Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center in Washington DC said at the time: 'It had the flavour of a cluster of balloons in my opinion'.

 

Most people were sceptical that the objects were extra terrestrial life, yet remained transfixed nonetheless.

Witness Daniel Calhoun, 52, said: ‘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.’

Witness Pete Bryant, 32, added: ‘There was no way that thing was a balloon... Light just doesn't reflect off balloons like that.’

Some blog posts linked the sighting to a book published by a retired U.S. Air Force officer which said that October 13, the very day the sighting happened, would witness ‘a massive UFO display over the world's principal cities'.

A cluster of tiny silver dots hover over Manhattan yesterday

NYPD & FAA Receive Reports Of UFO Sightings Over Manhattan

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Objects over Chelsea cause UFO stir

FRANK ROSARIO

 

Has Chelsea become so trendy even Martians are scouting for co-ops?

A silvery vision of a dozen balloon-like dots hovering in yesterday’s clear-blue sky over West 23rd Street had thousands speculating the mysterious objects might be UFOs.

Callers began phoning the NYPD and Federal Aviation Administration at 1:30 p.m. with reports of the strange, silver objects high in the sky.

"Some people saw something described as yellow with blue lights surrounding it," said FAA spokesman Jim Peters. He added that if the objects were weather balloons — as some suggested — his agency had no prior notification they’d be launched.

 

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."

Pete Bryant, 32, 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."

Tim Powell, 28 , described the objects as "the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen."

"It looked like a jellyfish made of lights that just hovered in the sky like it wanted to be seen," he said. "I was half expecting the aliens to beam down and introduce themselves."

And Richard Molina, 42, compared what he saw to the "creatures from ‘Predator.’ "

"It freaked me out. It was a real Superman moment, too," he said.

"Everyone looked up in the sky. It really was an event."

Additional reporting by Doug Auer and John Doyle

25 Years Removed Hudson Valley UFO Phenomenon Lives On

Reprinted From : www.ufologie.net/ hv/index.htm

From 1982 and on, thousands of people have reported seeing UFOs in the Hudson Valley, a magnificent area just 40 miles north from Manhattan, New York. While "UFO-skeptics" claim that UFOs are seen only by lone people in retired areas and never above cities, these sightings occurred in a very populated area, and hundreds of multiple independant witnesses came forward and described what cannot be anything commonplace. Article Reprinted From : http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1269843,ufo-westchester-putnam110908.article New Yorkers stand by 1980s UFO sightings in Westchester, Putnam counties Y ROB RYSER | The Journal News One generation ago, a boomerang-shaped object as bright as a city street and as big as a football field appeared in the night skies over southern New York state, drawing such mixed reactions from some 7,200 witnesses that it never turned into the cosmic public event that it really was. Now, 25 years after the well-documented but not necessarily well-remembered UFO phenomenon put Putnam and Westchester counties on the map as paranormal hot spots, the massive case study that has resulted is elevating the Lower Hudson Valley to the status of one of the three major UFO vortexes in the world. The other two are Stonehenge, England, and Sedona, Ariz. In a land with a heritage that celebrates Washington Irving’s iconic Headless Horseman every Halloween, the sightings are also yielding new theories about why these quiet suburbs apparently are so haunted. The most fantastic theory is developed in four books by one high-profile UFO investigator who teaches middle-school science in White Plains, N.Y. He believes that ancient European explorers built stone chambers in nearby Putnam to mark anomalies in the Earth’s magnetic field that may open windows into the fourth dimension, thereby giving the supernatural universe a portal into suburban life. Teacher and author Phil Imbrogno was among the first on the Lower Hudson scene with national UFO experts to record eyewitness accounts in 1983. At the time, hundreds of people in Westchester and Putnam were calling police to report a huge but silent lighted ship that the witnesses were certain they had never seen before. The Federal Aviation Administration explained the strange sights as light aircraft flying in formation - a possibility that many eyewitnesses said they rejected when they spoke to Imbrogno and the other investigators. The best pilots invariably break formation, and their engines are always audible from the ground, said Lt. Kevin Soravilla of the Yorktown police. He was a patrolman on duty the night of March 24, 1983, when he twice saw a silent and massive delta-shaped lighted ship. The government explanation of conventional aircraft was perhaps to be expected. The Air Force studied 12,600 UFO reports from 1947 until 1969 and then stopped, in part because it said it was a waste of taxpayer money and in part because the sightings did not represent new technology or a national security threat. As a result, the government turned all investigations over to private groups. And the Lower Hudson UFO legend only grew. People came out in groups to watch the night skies for UFOs. New-age seekers toured the stone chambers in the woods of Kent for the chance to see a spook light or perhaps a druid ghost. More than 1,500 people packed a one-day UFO conference. Support groups started for people certain they were contacted by extraterrestrial beings, including a monthly gathering called the UFO Roundtable in Yonkers. Cable networks sent production crews to dramatize an already remarkable story with special effects. In March, the History Channel aired a program that called the Lower Hudson sightings the biggest UFO vortex mystery of all time. And why not? The Lower Hudson Valley always has been a place, as Irving writes in ‘‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,’’ where ‘‘stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country’’ and where people are ‘‘given to all kinds of marvelous beliefs, subject to trances and visions.’’ Patterson-based real estate broker Freddy Vicente found that out while driving April 27 on the Taconic State Parkway, when, he said, a circle of 12 or more clearly oversized lights glided past his windshield and out of sight into the night. The burden of handling the UFO sightings - which came in the hundreds on the same night across town and county lines on at least three dates during the peak - fell on local police departments, whose officers sometimes also witnessed the same unidentified object as the public they were protecting. ‘‘We are sworn to uphold the law and help citizens, but that night we didn’t know what we had,’’ said Soravilla of the Yorktown police. ‘‘It was mind-boggling.’’ Departments often had little recourse beyond calling airport control towers to find a conventional explanation. The Lower Hudson UFO story remains more legend than popular history because the witness experience is so personal and varied. Some people screamed out in fear at the sight while others felt awe and even an attraction to it - especially those who sensed a wordless communication from the object not to be afraid. ‘‘Maybe years from now the Hudson Valley UFOs will be looked at like ’The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,’ ’’ Imbrogno said.

Naturalplane Blogspot "Saucer Shaped UFO Over Hudson River" Photo

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Photo: Saucer Shaped UFO Captured Over Hudson River, Manhattan, NYC - 9/11/08

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