NY UFOlloon Update

Strange how FMPU loves to be held accountable for the points of view we spew.  However, today it appears there could have been a mistake in writing off the UFO sighting in NY.  Apparently many people are serious in their view that these objects, written off in earlier reports as balloons, were UFOs. 

This story has been just under the Drudge marquee with a link to the New York Daily News article since late this afternoon.  It appears that the initial balloon claims are getting dq'd because of the claims that these were stationary objects (not sure how many).  Now if you asked my sister you'd know that this "another one of those stupid fucking stories" that shouldn't be addressed.  UFOs scare the ladies, that's why UFO fans don't get laid enough, if at all.

So for now I'll stop right there, but the comments are pretty good so far. Here's some selected picks:

brooklynknight41

9:44:18 PM
Oct 13, 2010

I was there and I did see something shining up in the sky, it hovered for a few minutes and then it slowly moved away. I couldn't defensively say what it was, it was too far for the naked eye to see. Someone was telling me that its been hovering for over 4 hours in the same spot. So who knows what it was, I still don't know.

sabotka

10:48:27 PM
Oct 13, 2010

I was there at about 2:30. When i was there, only 3 or 4 of the objects could be seen in the sky. They would mostly stay still, and maybe move VERY slowly. One was blinking, and then completely vanished. A couple of people said there were 20-30 of them up there a half hour earlier. When i first saw people looking up in the sky, i thought they were insane, but every single person that spotted the objects IN PERSON was bugged out by it. It was legitimately bizarre. There's a youtube vid of it too, showing a whole bunch of them

goldorg

7:09 PM
Oct 13, 2010

It's a balloon with Falcon Heene in it.

soupy

8:38 PM
Oct 13, 2010

Oh for Christ's sake. It was a paraglider. I've seen them many times in the sky above New York and sometimes over to Jersey. There was another small dot below the bigger dot, this was the person dangling underneath. I saw it about 1pm when it was closer and you could clearly make out the curve of the sail. He was riding the thermals, they can do this all the way up to the clouds if conditions are right. I saw a bunch of morons in Chelsea standing watching this dot and talking about whether or not it was a UFO. I thought these people were dumb, now I go online and see that people have been calling the cops and it's in the freaking papers. Oh my God.