Egg over New York City (over the Hudson), NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A looming, glowing, egg-shaped object appeared in the sky at around 10:30 pm and began to hover left and right up and down across what was guesstimated to be the JFK bridge. The egg flashed between red, white and a greenish tinge but would resume to a glowing white while stationary and didn't move at all. It suddenly would go off (become dark but still slightly visible) the bottom of the shape was dimly lit. The object was in the sky for a good 30 minutes repeating the movements and changing of color as it crossed along the back of Manhattan from the view of outer Manhattan. The object then began to hover slowly along the Manhattan line (behind the city/the Hudson presumably) and stopped right about at the Upper West Side area and disappeared in a split second completely.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #128569). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-07-14 → 2016-07-31