Dramatic Surge in ‘UFO Sightings’ in NY State Stirs Fears of Looming Alien Invasion

According to reports, 2019 was big on UFO sightings across the United States, with New York reportedly registering a 52 per cent surge in reports, triggering heightened media attention focused on the controversial and fascinating phenomenon.

Skygazers have reported a huge increase in sightings of alleged unidentified flying objects in New York State, according to the National UFO Reporting Center.

​While in almost all of 2019 there were some 151 such reports, the first part of 2020, a year that has brought numerous challenges triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, has witnessed some 84 sightings of reportedly unexplained flying crafts or eerie lights in the skies above state.

The descriptions offered by alleged witnesses to the unusual phenomena range from bright lights and strange sounds to particularly oddly shaped objects.

​A scary account was offered by one person in Staten Island, who is cited to have felt a burning sensation following a UFO sighting.

Other accounts described “glowing green UFOs” spotted while people had their gazes fixed on the skies to observe the Perseids – a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle.

Stars seen as streaks from a long camera exposure are seen behind Arnotegui Hermitage, in Obanos, northern Spain, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015

Another witness claims a spotted UFO was accompanied by a sound that resembled a military aircraft.
“The green lights were revolving in a figure eight as the craft moved quickly From east to west towards Manhattan. The military Aircraft that appeared to follow it was very loud,” said the person,

The National UFO Reporting Center claims to have registered thousands of witness accounts of UFOs submitted to the center nationwide.

Hunting for UFOs

Ever since Kenneth Arnold, a businessman piloting a small plane, filed the first well-known report in 1947 of an alleged UFO sighting over Mount Rainier in Washington, hunting for alien craft in the skies has fired people’s imaginations.

Back then Arnold claimed he saw nine high-speed, crescent-shaped objects zooming along “like saucers skipping on water,” and although his description of the “alien craft” did not suggest saucer-shapes, nevertheless, the analogy is reportedly what popularized the term “flying saucers.”

2019 was said to have been a year noted for an increase in UFO sightings across the United States. New York alone was believed to have witnessed a 52 per cent increase from 2018, with some suggesting the spike in media attention was linked with the US Pentagon’s admission of having investigated the phenomenon.

In 2017, three videos featuring a mysterious Tic Tac-shaped unidentified flying object (UFO) being tracked by the US Navy were leaked, purportedly dated to 2004.

The videos became the subject of extensive media coverage and investigation before being spectacularly declassified by the Pentagon in 2020.

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