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UFO Or Empire State Building? NYers Report Strange Sightings In Sky

New Yorkers have reported orbs above the Empire State Building, space crafts hovering over a beachside manhunt, and people frozen in time.

New Yorkers made 14 reports of UFOs so far this year, according to the National UFO Reporting Center.
New Yorkers made 14 reports of UFOs so far this year, according to the National UFO Reporting Center. (Shutterstock)

NEW YORK CITY — The truth about UFOs is out there, by which we mean, in Queens.

Or so claimed an anonymous Kew Gardens resident who reported a close encounter with an "actual being" to the National UFO Reporting Center.

Their report of an hour-long visitation — presented by Patch without edits — is as follows:

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"It was not a craft it was paralyzing I was visited by 4 or 5 4th or 5th dimensional beings they phased like some Kind of digital image and moved through my through furniture and my body as they tried to touch me."

Patch is sharing this report in honor of World UFO Day on July 2 — which commemorates the supposed Roswell, New Mexico, spaceship crash — and by taking a closer look at New York City-related sightings.

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New Yorkers made 14 reports about strange lights, spheres and discs in the sky, along with the aforementioned apartment crashers.

One New Yorker, and former police officer, told of an NYPD search for a missing man on a nearby beach, a glimpse into the sky with night vision googles and a strange vision, a report from the night of March 2 shows.

"I raised my camera up and noticed two spheres in tight formation," the ex-cop reported. "They flew over the ocean and onto land extremely fast and silent, I filmed until I could no longer see them."

The officer, who had offered to help in the hunt for the missing man, said the sighting felt momentous.

"I had an overwhelming feeling inside like it was meant for me," the UFO-spotter wrote. "I yelled so load (sic) I was shocked what I seen."

On Feb 4., another New Yorker spotted a suspicious haze in the skies above Manhattan, which some unsuspecting city dwellers might have called the Empire State Building.

This New Yorker snapped several photos of the building and the next day noticed six orbs floating in the mist around the skyscraper, they wrote.

"The glare from the Building light was so bright I didn’t noticed the orbs at the time," they wrote. "And I can understand why this might have not been noticed by anyone on the ground."

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Another New Yorker shared a strange experience from 1970 in which "missing time was experienced."

That city dweller, holding a new baby, looked out an apartment window and saw a "Massive Disk with light" descend from the sky to hover close to the building.

"This UFO," they wrote, "was extremely quite (sic)."

The person didn't know how long the encounter lasted because "everyone [was] frozen," they wrote.

"Myself and about 20 other were frozen or suspended in time so I can't say the length of time of this unusual event or sightseeing," the person wrote.

"I've been trying to tell what I saw since 1970. Only shared with Psychiatrist, friends and family. I don't know if anyone took my experience seriously."


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