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UFO Sightings in New York City Explode in 2020

Article by Ricky Hunter                                         December 16, 2020                                  (thejewishvoice.com)

• 2020 has been quite possibly the strangest year on record. From the COVID pandemic, to the bizarre BLM riots in the streets, to the controversial US elections – the world has never seen anything quite like 2020. And to top it off, UFO sightings are way up.

• Sightings of UFOs in New York City this year have gone up by 31 per cent from 2019. This year, 46 UFOs were spotted over the city, compared to 35 such sightings in 2019. That’s a jump of 283% according to data from the National UFO Reporting Center.

• The New York Post reported that on July 21, 2020, a Staten Islander saw an “oval” aircraft which sounded like a helicopter. However, the witness claimed that it unleashed a surge of radiation in his body. “[H]onestly thought it was the government putting something into the air with everything going on during these times, and I thought I would wake up and find it all over the news or on Instagram,” said the witness.

• On June 8th, a Bronx resident reported 30 objects flying in perfect synchronicity across the night skies, resembling stars in movements. Observers tend to not identify themselves. National UFO Reporting Center director Peter Davenport has no doubt observers are seeing what they’re seeing. “I believe we are being visited routinely by these things we call UFOs,” Davenport told The Post, adding he has had “five sighting experiences.”

• Asked why outer-space types would want any part of our crazy world, Davenport said, “You are going to have to talk to the aliens. I do not know what these creatures are up to. What their objective might be in being here.”

 

2020 has been quite possibly the strangest year on record.

From the mysterious COVID pandemic and the tremendous toll on human life and economic destruction, to the draconian lockdowns, which are

                 Peter Davenport

paralyzing the mental health of Americans and the entire world, to the bizarre violent communist BLM riots in the streets, to the controversial US elections; the world has never seen anything quite like 2020, and to top it off, UFO sightings are up.

Sightings of UFOs or Unidentified Flying Objects in NYC this year have gone up by 31 per cent from 2019. This year, 46 such objects were spotted in the glitzy skies of the city, compared to 35 such sightings in 2019.

Compared to 2018’s number, the 2020 sightings have jumped by 283 per cent, according to data from the National UFO Reporting Center.
NY Post reported on the increased UFO sightings.

On July 21, 2020, a Staten Islander saw an “oval” aircraft which reportedly sounded like a helicopter. However, the witness claimed that it unleashed a surge of radiation in their body.

The Islander told the media: “honestly thought it was the government putting something into the air with everything going on during these times and I thought I would wake up and find it all over the news or on Instagram.”

On June 8, someone from the Bronx say 30 objects flying in perfect synchronicity across the night skies, resembling stars in movements.

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A UFO Tugboat Abduction Memorial Has Popped Up in The Battery

by Nicole Saraniero                October 23, 2018                   (untappedcities.com)

• On July 13, 1977, New York City experienced day one of a two-day city-wide black-out. Many neighborhoods saw a surge in crime and flaws in the city’s infrastructure and emergency preparedness were brought to light. Patrolling the New York Harbor between Battery Park (or ‘The Battery”) in lower Manhattan Island and the Statute of Liberty on Liberty Island was the tugboat named ‘Maria 120’.

• Suddenly, the crew of the Maria 120 saw a bright streak in the night sky and what appeared to be a private aircraft crashed into the harbor. The tug radioed the Coast Guard a distress signal and informed them that they were going to try to tow the crashed vessel to shore. But when the Coast Guard boats arrived to help there was no aircraft, and the tugboat Maria 120 and her six-man crew had vanished.

• A Staten Island-based sculptor, Joe Reginella, has created a statute and monument located on the water’s edge at The Battery, with a plaque describing how the tug boat and crew had vanished in 1977, never to be heard from again. The statute depicts a longshoreman crewman gazing up at what can be presumed to be an alien spacecraft as an extraterrestrial figure lies at his feet. The statute/monument will be on display on weekends through November.

• Reginella has also produced a documentary that follows the son of one of the abducted crewmen as he seeks to uncover the truth of his father’s disappearance. (see the 2:19-minute trailer below)

Standing at the edge of the water in The Battery, with the Statue of Liberty just behind it, is a monument dedicated to the crew of the tugboat Maria 120. According to the plaque on the pedestal of the statue, the six man crew and vessel mysteriously vanished from New York Harbor in July of 1977. Perhaps this story doesn’t ring a bell because that summer is better known in New York City for the two-day city-wide blackout or the terrifying crimes of serial killer David Berkowitz. Or perhaps, it’s because it never happened. This fun and farcical memorial, which depicts a longshoreman crewman gazing up at what can be presumed to be an alien spacecraft as an extraterrestrial figure lays at his feet, is the latest public art piece from Staten Island based sculptor Joe Reginella. Reginella’s previous installations include the Brooklyn Bridge Elephant Stampede monument and a monument to an octopus attack on a ferry in Staten Island harbor.

As in his previous work, for the NYC Tugboat Abduction monument Reginella draws from true New York City history to add credibility to the story. The blackout of July 13th was a very real occurrence that happened during the summer of 1977. Many neighborhoods saw a surge in crime and flaws in the city’s infrastructure and emergency preparedness were brought to light. Reginella frames his fictional story in the context of this real life event. In the story of the Maria 120, crewmen were patrolling the waters between Liberty Island and Battery Park when in the pitch blackness, a bright streak of light shot through the night sky and what appeared to be a private aircraft crashed into the harbor. The crew immediately radioed the Coast Guard a distress signal and informed them that they were going to try to tow the crashed vessel to shore. However, when the Coast Guard boats arrived to help, there was no aircraft, and the tugboat Maria 120, as well as her crew, had vanished.

2:19 minute trailer for NTC UFO Tugboat Abduction documentary

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39 UFOs Were Spotted In New York City In 2017

by Noah Manskar           December 31, 2017           (patch.com)

• Peter Davenport, the director of the Washington state-based National UFO Reporting Center (NURC), says, “I know that this is the greatest scientific question that has ever confronted man… whether we are alone or not.” “And I submit to you that we are visited on a frequent basis. This is the biggest story in the world.”

• UFO sightings are most frequent in California and Florida where 13,033 and 6,190 UFOs have been reported, respectively, since the database’s inception in the 1990’s.

• In 2017, residents of New York City reported 39 UFO sightings. This number is down compared to 2016, when the city reported 47 sightings to the NURC’s online database. New York City’s sightings accounted for about 23 percent of the 169 reported across the state of New York in 2017.

• New Yorkers reported seeing flashing lights or objects of varying shapes in the sky for as little as 30 seconds to as long as 30 minutes. Lots of the events came late at night or early in the morning, though some were reported during daylight hours.

 

NEW YORK, NY — The truth is out there – and it might have visited the Big Apple in 2017. New Yorkers reported 39 sightings of unidentified flying objects across the five boroughs during the year, according to the National UFO Reporting Center.

Most reports came out of Brooklyn, where 15 people spotted unusual lights or shapes floating through the skies. Ten sightings came from Queens, nine from Manhattan, three from Staten Island and two from the Bronx.

UFO sightings are down this year compared to 2016, when the city reported 47 sightings to the NURC’s online database. Manhattan saw 18 UFOs that year, Brooklyn saw 14, Queens saw 11, the Bronx saw six and Staten Island three.

New York City’s sightings accounted for about 23 percent of the 169 reported across the state this year, NURC’s database shows.

New Yorkers reported seeing flashing lights or objects of varying shapes in the sky for as little as 30 seconds to as long as 30 minutes. Lots of the events came late at night or early in the morning, though some were reported during daylight hours.

“All of the sudden, I see 2 triangles made up of lights floating by in the sky,” wrote one Astoria, Queens, resident who was looking out of a fifth-floor apartment window over the East River at 9:29 p.m. on Oct. 20. “There 1 second gone the next. One triangle was made of red lights and the other craft made of blue.”

New York City is far from alone in seeing UFOs. The NURC has reports from every U.S. state and other nations. Sightings are most frequent in California and Florida — sky-watchers there have reported 13,033 and 6,190 UFOs respectively since the database’s inception in the 1990s.

The U.S. government became interested enough in flying saucers that in 2007 it launched a Department of Defense program to study sightings of them, according to a bombshell report in The New York Times this month. Former government officials, including the program’s former director, say the effort is still active, though federal funding for it ran out in 2012.

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