Sphere over Staten Island, NY
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The report, as filed
Ate thanksgiving dinner, and went out onto my back porch for a smoke, followed by my two sons, my oldest son (4 years old) points towards the Moon and says, "What's that?" and i look up preparing myself to say "it's the moon" when I noticed two stars zig zagging left to right from each other like so o<------> <----->0 meeting up then going apart this was going on about 4 inches away from the moons right side if you were to use actual inches and pointed it at the sky. then all of a sudden the dropped rapidly and were now about 100 feet off the ground in formation one behind the other, to which I started yelling at all my guests in the house to come outside quickly, My friend and my wife came out, and we witnessed two spheres glowing orange and pulsating kind of like they were made of flame, the flickering type of light movement and my friend was trying to see if they had the usual plane lights ( red and green) somewhere within these crafts , and they did not. They just stood there for about 2 minutes then they proceeded to "drift" slowly towards the ocean ( this is all happening on top of Father Cappodano Street right by the beach) the drift was going in an easterly direction parallel to the Verazzano bridge, in other words these spheres were heading towards Brooklyn ( Bay Ridge area). By the time they reached about waterfront level, the first globe sped away and became a small dot real fast and disappeared then the second one followed suit in the same manner. Absolutely No sound and we made a remark about it because there was a plane flying real high in the sky ( with contrail)and we could hear the plane very well. these spheres were 100 feet off the ground and made no noise, they only slickered in a bizarre way and they were opaque orange kind of like a flame off a campfire, but solid spheres. the most amazing thing i have ever seen in my life, and i pray that there were many witnesses because the Bridge is right there and it was very busy because at around 9 pm the mall opened for a huge sale and people were out and about. (( We spoke briefly
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #124403). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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