As UFOs Arrive In News, See Latest NYC Sightings

NEW YORK – Something is out there. Mysterious objects zipping at hypersonic speeds with no discernible engine or exhaust fumes were recently reported by Navy pilots.

The report was enough to have a group of Senate lawmakers receive a classified briefing in June and President Donald Trump recently said he was briefed on UFOs.

And the country needs to know what it is, whether it’s “weather balloons, little green men, or something else entirely,” Rachel Cohen, Virginia Democrat Sen. Mark Warner's spokeswoman, told CNN. The Navy has drafted guidelines to allow pilots to report UFO and so that the military can track them - though it's reluctant to use the term UFO.

“So, we don’t actually use that term,” Joseph Gradisher, a spokesman for the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told Patch.

“We constitute anything unknown or unidentified in the airspace as an ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon,’ no matter what it is,” he said.

Patch took a look at the most recent UFO – or UAP – sightings in NYC using a database compiled by the National UFO Reporting Center.

Brooklyn, 5/25/2019 , 8:19 p.m.

Summary: "Observed a round boomerang shaped object gliding through the sky."

Duration: 90 seconds

New York City, 5/22/2019, 8:37 p.m.

Summary: "Cigar-like object, brownish in color, seemed to travel in tighter and tighter circles until disappeared, leaving strong odor."

Duration: 4 minutes.

New York City, 5/11/2019, 4 p.m.

Summary: "High Altitude UFO sighted over New York City during daylight."

Duration: 1 hour.

Woodside, Queens, 5/9/2019, 10:20 p.m.

Summary: "Crimson light alternating with orange within the clouds at night."

Duration: 10 minutes.

New York City, 5/9/19, 9:55 p.m.

Summary: "See though triangle shaped craft with lights, silently glides over Manhattan's Upper West Side buildings along the Hudson."

Duration: 5 seconds.

According to data compiled by the Center, there were nearly 500 sightings across the country in May and more than 300 in January, March and April. The most recent sighting logged by the trackers was June 6 in Roseville, Minnesota, just east of Minneapolis and north of St. Paul. In that sighting — which lasted all of four seconds — a resident was looking at the stars on a deck around 3:10 a.m.

“I talked really quiet out loud saying, ‘If there are any aliens up there please show me your space ship; do something,’” the person said, according to the incident report.

Sure enough, an object lit up for two seconds to the east and zoomed north, according to the account.

“I said, ‘Thank you; please do it again,’” the person reported.

And roughly one minute later, the witness saw the same thing, this time to the northeast, and moving in the same direction. The person described it as “what people who see UFOs call a power-up,” but noted it was for a very brief amount of time, almost as if “they only wanted me to see them.” The light was described as being in an oval shape and located about a mile away.

The Navy seems convinced of the existence of UAPs, telling POLITICO in a statement there were reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft “entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years.”

"For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report,” the statement said.

And Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress, told The New York Times in May that he was one of multiple pilots who saw mysterious objects. The pilots began seeing the UAPs in 2014 after receiving upgraded equipment.

Initially they believed they were getting bad readings.But the sightings kept happening, showing up at 30,000 feet, 20,000 feet and even at sea level. The objects could speed up, slow down and then reach hypersonic speeds.

“These things would be out there all day,” he said. “Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”

Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report.