New York UFO sightings were likely balloons

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 By

Flying saucer

The New York UFO sightings weren't flying saucers, and neither is the cooling tank in this photo. Image from Wikimedia Commons.

Reports are beginning to emerge of a New York UFO sighting. It seems that some unidentified objects appeared over New York City on Wednesday. Almost immediately, New Yorkers took to Twitter and began tweeting about the UFO in New York City skies. Balloons can be mistaken easily for flying saucers, if seen at the right angle and with the right reflection. Reports of China UFO sightings have been rampant as well.

New York UFO sighting likely balloons

Around midday Wednesday, some New Yorkers began seeing multiple flying objects that were reported as a UFO NYC sighting. Twitter exploded with claims of a UFO over New York City, according to the Huffington Post. However, not every New Yorker was buying it. Almost as soon as claims of a UFO in NYC came out, so did the explanation that what people saw was a raft of large balloons that appeared silver in color. Video of the events in question only reveals tiny silver objects floating far away. Balloons with a silver tint can easily appear metallic with glare from sunlight. Making the imaginative leap to visitors from another world isn’t too difficult, either.

UFO China sightings

Over the past year, several UFO sightings have occurred in China. An unidentified flying object closed several airports over the summer. The most recent sighting occurred a few weeks ago. A flight into Baotou, Inner Mongolia, reported seeing something in the air that air traffic control observed on radar. The airport rerouted flights for more than an hour before the object left. It wasn’t the only report of a UFO over China during the summer. Xioashan Airport closed temporarily in July under similar circumstances.

Prediction coming true?

It’s worth noting that retired Air Force officer Stanley Fulham, according to Yahoo News, released a book online, titled “Challenges of Change” in September. The book predicts that extra terrestrials would make their presence known on Oct. 13, 2010, when the U.S. would see UFO displays over its “principal cities.” The book is available on Fulham’s website.

Sources

Huffington Post

Yahoo! News

Website for Stanley Fulham

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  • Joe Primo

    If these objects were balloons. Why is the FAA reporting they did not have ANY radar contact with anything in the area? Why are eye witnesses reporting the objects where stationary for up to 45 minutes at a time and not floating in the wind?

    No police department has jurisdiction of the air, the FAA does. NYPD where telling people they were merely weather balloons rather than the alternative; that they were UFOs, we have no idea what they are, and if they started firing green laser blasts at the City, you're on your own citizen. The FAA has aerial jurisdiction of the entire United States air space. Remember that next time you spot a plane spraying poison over your town or a "balloon" that doesn't show up on radar shooting green crap at you. PEW PEW PEW

    • PeterStone2112

      Well, Joe – there's something not everyone knows. You see, wind occurs differently at different altitudes. The wind and air currents that a low flying plane at an altitude of a couple thousand feet may not even blow in the same direction as the wind on the ground, or wind or air currents at 35,000 feet. Thus, it is perfectly feasible for balloons to be stationary, or appear stationary, to people that feel wind on the ground. It turns out that even the FAA knows that.

  • chris

    I have frends that saw this event today. They all agreed on seeing large silver balloons reflecting sunlight off the Hudson.
    Mexico City, Moscow and Chinese Airport vendors got the same cheap deal on these things and found out the hard way that their profits just float away causing these distractions.
    I'm sure all these defective balloons are beng pulled off the market by our Government right now and let's hope we've seen the last of this stuff!
    How did I do?