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OK...well, I just received a few phone calls from associates in New York City. There seems to be some kind of event. I'm not sure what is happening but I'll try to update...Lon
NOTE: I also heard that there was a ruckus at the Indian Point nuclear facility sometime early today.
UPDATE - 6:08 pm: xomba - New Yorkers are claiming to have seen a UFO today hovering above the city. It has been speculated that the sightings were just an observation of balloons, however there are many people claiming that these are definitely alien spacecraft.
The dots in the sky were very high up and looked yellow and circular in shape. There were approximately three of them hovering in the air.
A lot of this chatter has started up because of a retired NORAD officer who made claims that aliens would make contacts with humans on October 13th, 2010 in a book.
There are many people on social media websites that are claiming to have seen strange lights in the sky today. No doubt, many people are keeping their eyes towards the sky due to this retired officers claims.
There are multiple other sources claiming to have seen over a dozen silver objects floating over New York City as well.
UPDATE - 6:14pm: The Huffington Post is now claiming that these are balloons. I'll keep looking for updates...
UPDATE - 6:33pm: nydailynews - Mystery shiny objects floating over Manhattan spark UFO frenzy
A mysterious shiny object floating high over Manhattan's West Side set off a flurry of reports and wild speculation Wednesday that a UFO was flying over the city.
Police and the FAA said they began getting flooded with calls starting at 1:30 p.m. from people reporting a silvery object hovering high over Chelsea.
Law enforcement sources said they believed the object was likely some sort of balloon, but as of late Wednesday they had not confirmed exactly what it is.
A Daily News reporter could see a tiny, silver dot floating approximately 5,000 feet above 28th St. and Eighth Ave., where dozens of people gathered late in the afternoon to catch a glimpse.
"It's been hovering there for a while. I'm just kind of baffled," said Joseph Torres, 49, of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, who spotted the object after leaving a movie. "How can it be ordinary? There is something going on."
Despite clear skies, it was not easy to make out the tiny object shimmering overhead.
"You really have to look up to see it," said one witness, who gave only his first name, Rico. "It's a little crazy. I guess that's why they call it an unidentified flying object because they don't know what it is."
Not long after the first sightings, messages began appearing on Twitter linking to a month-old press release announcing the publication of a book by a retired NORAD officer predicting that UFOs would buzz the earth's major cities on Oct. 13.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it received dozens of calls to its operations center but after reviewing radar data, the agency could not find anything out of the ordinary.
"We re-ran radar to see if there was anything there that we can't account for but there is nothing in the area," said spokesman Jim Peters. "There was some helicopter traffic over the river at that time and we checked with LaGuardia Tower. And they said they had nothing going low at that time."
"Nothing that we can account for would prompt this kind of response," he said.
Peters said if it was a weather balloon or any kind of organized balloon release, the NYPD should have been notified in advance. Police officials said they had received no notification.
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