1995-12-18 - New York, NY - Triangle

Over 28th & Lexington Ave, A Huge, hovering, triangleish shape hovering probably over 1000 feet above crowd including 4 NYC Cops

Over 28th & Lexington Ave, A Huge, hovering, triangleish shape, obscured by what seemed to be manufactured clouds or fog, hovering probably over 1000 feet above crowd of about 20 or so passerbys, including 4 very befuddled NYC Cops, who stopped to look... I was walking home from work about 8-9pm, 12/18 for a fact, possibly '94, '95, or'96 ...going down Lexington Ave in Midtown NYC...walking by like 29th or 28th street in front of Rocky's Bar, when I saw several people and 4 Cops looking straight up into the sky... I almost kept walking...but something in me said, "no look, don't be an idiot" ... so I followed their eyes up, up, up and WOW! way up beyond what seemed for some reason like fake clouds was a HUGE plane-like triangleish shape with several lights at various points (which might have blinked different colors) which when I connected the dots in my mind the first thought I had was: Space Shuttle. But this was MUCH, MUCH bigger, at about 1000 feet up I could bracket it with my hands being about 8 inches apart... As more people walked by some stopped till there were about 20 people watching....just looking at each other and oohing and aahing and saying "oh my god" "oh my god" ... the 4 cops were shaking their heads, shuffling their feet, and putting their hands on their heads like they were wondering whether or not they were going to report this...or just agree to all keep their mouths shut... one Cop next to me looked at me and we shook our heads and he said..."Definitely a UFO" and I said "definitely a UF Something" ... after about 5 minutes or so, the craft started rising up into the sky and it got smaller as it rose and went completely out of sight into the clouds or fog... I started walking home amazed...it had been my 3rd UFO sighting (my first being '78/79 over Poughkeepsie, NY) and by far the best....a few blocks down was a guy standing outside the old Tom O'Reilly's bar across from the Armory on Lexington & 26th...he was looking straight up with his hands forming a viewfinder ar! ound his eyes as if to focus better... I started to ask him "HEY, did you see..." when he cut me off and said something like "that big thing in the sky? yeah! Did you? Were you up there (pointing to where I'd been) by all the cops?" I said yeah! wasn't that amazing? and he went "YEAH!" And then a buddy of his came out of the deli next door and he screamed his name and said that he'd just saw something up in the sky and that I had to and had been standing a couple blocks away with about 20 people including 4 cops...and I confimed that to his friend and we were both very excited and pumped up...and at that, as though he at least now had a friend as a witness who had at least witnessed me confirming the sighting and the crowd and the cops, he went running back into the bar screaming "HEY GUYS! HEY GUYS! ...."

((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate. We wonder whether the date might have been Friday night, September 15, 1995, the date an object was seen by hundreds of witnesses on the Staten Island ferry to rise out of the water between the ferry and Governor's Island. PD))