NUFORC Sighting 101394

Occurred: 2013-08-21 21:40 Local
Reported: 2013-08-21 20:22 Pacific
Duration: 40 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: New York, NY, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

red and green lights on something moving in one direction, stopped, hovered, changed directions, stopped again, then flew out of sight.

Around 9:40pm, I looked out my window to admire the beautiful (1-day post full) moon rising, when instead what caught my eye were the big bright red and green lights (2 of each) in a square/diamond formation moving silently across the sky perhaps about 10-15mph in a southwest direction, seemingly only about 1/4 or 1/3 of a mile high. Then it stopped, hovered for maybe 10", then changed directions and moved northward for perhaps about 300 feet before stopping and hovering again for about 20-30".

Then it flew westward and out of my visibility, and while it could have been a helicopter, I didn't hear anything that sounded like one, and I haven't known choppers to have big bright red/green lights but no white headlight.

Shrug... I'll probably never know!

Posted 2013-08-30

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