NUFORC Sighting 81774

Occurred: 2011-06-14 22:25 Local
Reported: 2011-06-14 20:54 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Astoria, NY, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object

Wingless airplane torso in the night sky close to LaGuardia airport.

I was outside my apt. building looking at the moon and thinking about the moon’s light shining through the clouds, when at 22:25 eastern time, I heard a mix between a loud engine and a whizzing sound coming from behind my 3 floor building.

When I saw it , the first thing I noticed was that the aircraft was flying a lot lower than a commercial airplane normally did.

As I began observing it thoroughly, I noticed its tail had very bright white and red lights going off. The red light was going off at one second intervals with the white in between.

I assumed it was a government aircraft like Air Force One because the tail lights were very powerful.

The second thing I noticed was that this mysterious aircraft did not have lights on the wings. My initial assumption was that it was a commercial plane flying lower than usual.

I began searching for wings on the aircraft to no avail. The aircraft flew in on a 90 degree angle which I thought was weird because I thought all commercial aircrafts could only fly at a 45 degree angle or at a certain angle; while this aircraft was flying in a horizontal line.

The aircraft flew, from what I could measure with my arms, in a 40 degree angle in 10 seconds. It flew through the lowest cloud formation I could see and the lights were so powerful I could still see it throught the cloud formation.

Seconds after the aircraft disappeared I saw a reflection in a window of a bright red light on the opposite building in front of me; as if to say the light was comimng from behind my building. As I looked behind my building I saw nothing. I still heard the aircraft about 3 seconds after it disappeared from my sight.

I went back into the building. About 10 min later I stepped outside and called the National UFO Reporting Hotline and realized the sky was completely clear.

NUFORC Note:

We spoke via telephone with this witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded and credible. We suspect that he is an excellent witness. PD

Posted 2011-06-20