Changing over Forest Hills (Queens; NYC), NY

The report, as filed

I was on the phone with my friend when I saw a red light over Flushing Meadow Park. I am always on the lookout for bizarre objects in the sky, so I knew this light was out of the ordinary. I kept my eye on it. Sure enough, the light began to shift. While I was observing it, still on the phone with my friend, it began to shift into a beautiful green light shaped like a butterfly. It ended up looking like one of the alien space crafts from the video game Galaga. I was so nervous that the spacecraft would disappear if I caught video of it, so I just kept observing. It finally shifted into a blue light, and shifted into a shape that looked like a helicopter and landed somewhere beyond the horizon. It came back up into the sky and shifted color to something that could look like an airplane. It was definitely aware of me observing it. As I was leaving the park, it stopped several times, but every time I looked at it after that, it began to move across the sky again as if it were just an airplane. Flushing Meadow Park is located near several airports, so UFO activity can often go undetected.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #166519). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.