Cited: ABC News and Daily News
The infamous Manhattan skyline was the scene Wednesday of mysterious objects or UFOs that hovered above New Yorkers as they froze in their tracks trying to figure out what they were.
“We are not able to make an identification of what the objects were,” Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Arlene Salac said today. “We know they weren’t aircraft or helicopters. We wouldn’t be able to say if they were balloons or something else.”
Authorities have no answers about the mysterious object floating over Manhattan.
Described as bright white lights or glittery silver balloon-like objects, the floating balls seemed to separate and converge on Manhattan’s West Side high above the trendy Chelsea neighborhood.
The New York Police Department said it received dozens of calls about the unidentified flying objects, but would not speculate on their identity.
“Maybe [it's] Superman, maybe Wonder Woman,” one bystander told ABC News affiliate WABC-TV, who confessed he would rather it was Wonder Woman.
“I think it’s a balloon,” said another man, adding, “but then again balloons don’t stand still.”
Objects May Have Been Balloons
But balloons, if clustered, would travel together slowly along the same wind currents, occasionally separating from each other, just as the objects over Manhattan, said Benjamin Radford, author of “Scientific Paranormal investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries”
Radford said the object looked similar to many previous sightings of balloons.
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“These are actually identical to clips I’ve seen of silver Mylar balloons that we investigated in Buffalo, N.Y., several years back,” Radford said.
“We had the same thing, reflective objects in the sky. Through study, we could tell they were balloons. This is actually just the latest in a series of sightings like this,” he added.
“One thing that tips us off that this is not a UFO, is that in the video the objects are able to move independently of each other, not like lights in a fixed position on an aircraft.”
On Thursday, October 14, the mystery was solved as some NYC kids say no, it is not a UFO. The mysterious floating orbs were balloons that escaped from their teacher’s engagement party.
All those theories about Wednesday’s mystery UFO sightings over Manhattan are about to go “pop.”
A Westchester elementary school believes the puzzling orbs floating over Chelsea were likely a bundle of balloons that escaped from an engagement party they held for a teacher.
“UFO? They’re crazy – those are our balloons!” said Angela Freeman, head of the Milestone School in Mount Vernon. “To me it was the most automatic thing. But it’s all over YouTube.”
A parent was bringing about 40 iridescent pearl balloons to the school for language arts teacher Andrea Craparo when the wind blew a bunch away around 1 p.m.
“They looked big and they were all together, so it looked like one UFO,” said fourth-grader Nia Foster, 9.
Awestruck gawkers began calling the NYPD and the FAA starting about an hour later when mysterious flying objects appeared over Manhattan.
Meteorologists with the National Weather Service said the wind was blowing south at 5 to 10 m.p.h. at the time which would make the engagement balloon theory possible.
Police have said they believe the puzzling objects were likely balloons.
The sky was very clear at the time, making high-flying objects extremely visible from the ground.
Also, helium-filled balloons tend to change shape at high altitudes as the gas expands – making them look abnormal from below, experts say.
As with anything related to the paranormal, other possibilities abound. Following with the balloon theory, some suspected an event in Times Square where a number of yellow balloons were released to celebrate a joint-tourism agreement between New York and Madrid.
Of course, there is always a prediction by Stanley Fulham, a retired NORAD officer, who recently published a book. In that book he predicted it the world’s major cities, including New York, would be this vid by UFOs on October 13. Reporters attempted to contact him, but he had not returned any calls and no one knows his whereabouts.
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My Take: I am one of those believers! Yes, I believe that there is life elsewhere in this beautiful universe of ours. I do not believe that God is a wasteful God so why would he waste so much space and only create life in one spot? It is a lot of wasted space if we are the only intelligent life form in the universe!
It was very good those kids to admit to what those UFOs really were. Maybe somebody should reward them with new kids desks. If not desks, maybe blackboards or chalkboards, I’m sure the school can use them or even display cases to put their trophies in.
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