85 UFO Sightings In New York City Over Past Two Years

By International Business Times

New York City experienced 85 UFO sightings in the past two years, according to the New York Post Saturday.

The information comes from a database collected by the National UFO Reporting Center based in Washington state. The organization takes submission of UFO sightings by phone and online.

“Do I believe in UFOs? I absolutely believe . . . I believe what the data says,” Peter Davenport, the center’s director told the Post. “Read the cases and you come to the realization that these objects we’ve been calling UFOs for 70 years are being seen across the country and around the world on a daily basis.”

New York City’s borough of Manhattan experienced the most sightings — racking up 27 since 2016. The details of the sightings run the gamut from a paltry amount of information to much more descriptive.

“[I was] Looking out my 5th-floor apartment window in Astoria, Queens, which overlooks the East River and Manhattan's Skyline of the Empire State Building. All of the sudden, I see 2 triangles made up of lights floating by in the sky. There 1 second gone the next. One triangle was made of red lights and the other craft made of blue,” reads one entry from Oct. 20, 2017.

The bulk of sightings are mysterious lights viewed in the sky, sometimes for a few seconds, sometimes for much longer. 

“Three very bright lights in sky, still. One would move away, then rejoin. Often a pair would be so close as to look as one light. Hovered over Queens … for at least 15 minutes. I saw from more than a mile away and the lights were very big and bright. Very still,” reads one report from the New York City borough of Queens from Nov. 1, 2017.

Davenport said that reliable and clear photos of these mysterious UFO sightings are hard to come by because people typically only have a few seconds to react. The sightings the organization compiles are self-reported, meaning there are only verified by the viewer. 

In December, the New York Times revealed that the Defense Department ran a classified program between 2007 and 2012 to study UFO sightings, dedicating $22 million a year to the research. Former NASA space shuttle engineer James Oberg told the Times he was doubtful about the possibility of extraterrestrials but welcomed the research.

“There are plenty of prosaic events and human perceptual traits that can account for these stories,” Oberg said. “Lots of people are active in the air and don’t want others to know about it. They are happy to lurk unrecognized in the noise, or even to stir it up as camouflage.”

Report of UFO sighting in the north

By Staff Reporter

A UFO was spotted over the Kasivera area in the north on Thursday night, according to Turkish Cypriot Kibris newspaper.
The paper published photos of the purple flying object along the coastal area which were reportedly taken by astronomer who uploaded it to his website.
UFO sightings have been reported in the north on occasion in the past.

UFOs are Real & They're Here!

By  JIM "PAPPY" MOORE

In 1947 a UFO crashed near Roswell, New Mexico.  The modern age of UFO reports and denials began. The event is well-detailed at The UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico.  The evidence is impressive.

Since 1947, for the past seventy years, there has been a systematic campaign to undermine UFO reports, to make those who see them and report them appear to be less than credible.  Mainstream media has typically scoffed at the notion, citing government information which attempts to rebut those claims.

Suddenly, in recent weeks, the dam has broken. Suddenly, government investigators have provided compelling evidence to none other than The New York Times, which has published stories which make clear: UFOs have been here. They are intelligently designed and operated aircraft. They possess speeds and skills far in excess of anything ever created by humans on this planet.

Reports by Navy pilots have been provided, with tracking for alien aircraft, demonstrating speeds far beyond anything we have ever seen in aircraft, and revealing maneuvers we have never seen in aircraft created by humans.

A few years ago, a group was formed and funded to investigate UFOs anew.  For several years the group, led by people with significant military and intelligence backgrounds, went about their work.  Their findings are nothing short of earth shattering.

Consider the statements of Luis Elizondo.  He headed up the Pentagon's group tasked with investigating UFOs anew.   He is a heavyweight in his arena. He is a career intelligence officer whose experience includes working with the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, the National Counterintelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence.

"My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone," Luis Elizondo said in an interview on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."  He has stated that beyond a reasonable doubt, UFOs exist.  We may not be alone.  Let those words sink in.

"These aircraft -- we'll call them aircraft -- are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of," Elizondo said in a published report by CNN.

From The New York Times to other well known news organizations, these stories have come out the past month and it appears they are just the leading edge of the what could be a massive amount of new information provided the public this new year of 2018.  

Fifty years ago, I wrote my term paper in the 12th grade about UFOs. My teacher scoffed at them.  Too bad she never lived to see the top news organizations reveal such information direct from the Pentagon.  It's about time the public found out what its government has known about UFOs for the past seventy years.

Government agency on ETs means we need to share message

By Brad Stanhope

The truth is out there. And we need to spin it. Stat!

A report last month by The New York Times confirmed what those of us who celebrated the crop circles near Larry’s Produce in 2003 have long believed: Extraterrestrial aliens are real.

Just ask the U.S. Department of Defense.

Well, kind of.

The DoD (as insiders call it) may not confirm that extraterrestrials are real, but it takes them

seriously enough to investigate.

The Times reported that an agency called Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) existed for years, getting about $20 million a year in funding from the government until it was shut down in 2012.

Allegedly shut down.

Insiders say it still exists.

AATIP began in 2007, largely at the request of Nevada Sen. Harry Reid (Area 51 is in Nevada, by the way. Coincidence? Hardly). Most of the government money went to a research company headed by a man who told “60 Minutes” that he was convinced that aliens exist and have visited Earth.

They have visited Earth! That part’s obvious. Is there any other explanation for Gilbert Gottfried?

But our government pursued them.

During the AATIP’s years of official standing (which coincided with Alex Smith’s career with the 49ers. Coincidence? Hardly.), the program compiled reports that described sightings of aircraft with technology that went beyond contemporary aeronautical science. The UFOs weren’t possible for humans.

Members also studied video of encounters between UFOs and American military aircraft.

Of course, this is nothing new: The Air Force investigated more than 12,000 UFO sightings from 1947 to 1969 (Which is when Woodstock happened, which allowed the government to ascribe all UFO sightings to brown acid. Coincidence? Hardly.).

Regardless, let’s make the obvious jump: UFOs are real and the government knows it. Otherwise, why spend millions of dollars every year?

Fellow humans, we need to be proactive. Aliens are investigating us, so we need to communicate with them.

The next step is to fashion our message. They are among us.

I’m here to help and the work begins with where marketing professionals always begin: Who is our audience? What is our message? How do we best communicate it?

Audience: It’s obviously extraterrestrials who are curious enough to visit us.

Message: It should be simple: Don’t hurt us. We stay in peace. We want to be your friend. Phone home. Dilly dilly.

Method: Social media is likely outdated to anyone with technology to visit far-off planets. Television and radio signals – the preferred method in decades past – are already passe on Earth. Sometimes the best method is simple and here’s my recommendation:

Reprint this column. Leave it out for the aliens to see. Refer extraterrestrials to the Daily Republic web page. Read it aloud, in case they’re listening.

And if you’re an ET and you’re reading this, here’s what we have to say:

Don’t hurt us.

We stay in peace.

We want to be your friends.

Phone home.

Dilly dilly.

Manhattan reported more UFO sightings than any other borough

By Dean Balsamini

Houston Street, we have a problem.

Manhattan has gone from Studio 54 to Area 51, leading the five boroughs in sightings of unidentified flying objects over the last two years, data from the National UFO Reporting Center reveals.

Otherworldly tourists have included travelers in a “round orange orb,” a crew in a “cigar-shaped” craft and even “an unknown creature” that rudely “teleported” into one New Yorker’s back yard, according to reports made to the Washington-based group.

One Manhattan true believer claimed a close encounter — just by looking outside the gym window.

“It was rotating like a drill as it was also moving off axis and in a line towards the east,” the person explained. “As it rotated, you would be able to see four lights that would only be on one side and seen after it fully rotated. It has to be hundreds of feet long. Then after it appeared, four other smaller craft appeared that were to me saucer or spherical that blipped in and out.”

In all, there have been 27 spacey sightings in Manhattan since 2016, with Brooklynites close behind, reporting 24 strange objects — from a “very bright, round-shaped light in the sky” to a “fireball” of lights.

Queens denizens described 20 unexplained episodes, with a particularly impressive arrival last June.

“Group of about 7 UFOs, with a leader to the side, and a cluster to its north,” one witness reported.

Just eight mysterious incidents originated out of the Bronx, while Staten Island residents got interstellar a paltry six times.

“Surprised a UFO that was hovering silently above me, then it shot away,” one Staten Islander shrugged last January.

The reports include time and general place of occurrence, but can be painfully short of detail. Last May 3, someone in Brooklyn simply reported, “UFO.”

The center’s director is confident that the truth is out there.

“Do I believe in UFOs? I absolutely believe . . . I believe what the data says,” Peter Davenport insisted. “Read the cases and you come to the realization that these objects we’ve been calling UFOs for 70 years are being seen across the country and around the world on a daily basis.”

The most common claim the center receives is “lights in the sky that they can’t identify.” Davenport noted that, since May 2012, “we started seeing a type of report of clusters of red, orange, amber, yellow or gold lights.”

“Good photos, reliable photos” of UFOs are “scarce” because people have just seconds to capture “objects capable of moving at tremendous speeds,” he explained.

The group says it has catalogued more than 128,000 mysterious sightings worldwide since 1974, with most in the United States — 13,033 — originating in California. New York has collected just 4,500 in that time.

“There’s this sense that this is New York . . . there can’t be a UFO,” Davenport said. “Or they just don’t want to get involved.”

UFO sighting reported at Hervey Bay

By  Matthew McInerney

THE truth is said to be out there, but could it be in our backyard?

As the world's science fiction television fans anticipated The X-Files's eleventh season premiere on January 4, a Fraser Coast woman revealed details of her own experience.

The image is, er, sketchy at best, though a Hervey Bay resident described the moment she saw an unidentified flying object - a UFO - at her house on Tuesday, January 2. 

A sketch based on the eyewitness account of an unidentified flying object (UFO) near Hervey Bay, Queensland. Facebook/UFO Research Queensland

In a post uploaded to UFO Research Queensland's Facebook page on the morning of January 5, she described the appearance of a "crescent-shaped object about 2 metres above her roof".

"It was very dense, black, silent and still, then took off at high speed," the post reads.

Hervey Bay, Queensland.
Tuesday 2/1/18 about 8pm (This is a third hand report so details are limited. Witness sketch supplied)
A woman saw a crescent-shaped object about 2 metres above her roof. It was very dense, black, silent and still, then took off at high speed. Previously she felt called to go outside and look. The night before she heard a low humming for part of the night. If anyone from the area has seen anything please contact us.

The post calls for more information about sightings in Hervey Bay on or around January 2 to be added to their page.

It is not the first time sketches have been used to advertise UFO sightings.

These five Central Queensland sightings were described in October, 2017, while a further 21 were described here.

The X-Files originally ran from 1992 to 2003, before it's triumphant return to screens last year.

Foxtel airs The X-Files' eleventh season on Showcase every Friday at 8.30pm.