2000-09-08 - New York, NY - Rectangle

slow moving object in fast paced NYC

My workmate and I were sitting at lunch in the cafeteria in a manhattan building that looks over central park. It was September 8th, 2000 and we first saw a police helicopter circling around and we concluded that the helicopter was there because of the UN 2000 conference/meeting of world leaders. Then, I saw a reddish/amber object which seems stationary at first but then seems to move very slowly, I then asked my workmate "what's that red thing there in the skies?" he replied, "oh, its one of those baloons." But, for some reason I kept on looking and the object now was showing a bright white color also, so I pointed that out to him and we decided to focus on the object and the helicopter. It was'nt long before we noticed that this thing was acutally moving in a circular fashion, that is, it was traveling and spinning, this was evident because we would see the bright white color and the reddish/amber, sometimes it appears that this was a two-colored object sometimes one. We became more curious when we realised that this thing was really moving upwards and getting smaller and that we now would only recognise the bright white color. By this time we knew it was not a baloon, nor a helicopter, nor any other object that we can recognise. In the midst of the whole scene we would look at each other and ask "what da hell is that thing?" Then one of us suggested it might be one of those flying saucers, we both laughed as if to say "yeah right." The object mounted so high that had it not been for the bright white light we would not be able to recognise it with our natural eyes. It disappeared when it mounted beyond some clouds so to us the clouds covered or blocked our view but it had gone so high already. I must say that it seems to pick up in speed as it climbed higher. Although maths is my favorite subject I am not good at estimating distances and sizes so I will not attempt to estimate either at any point in this experience. All i can say is that when I first saw this thing it was probably a little above the distance the helicopter was and at that point it was quite visable; by the time it disappeared it became as the size of a miniature baseball. What is interesting is that there were other people(about 12-15) in the same cafeteria at the same time but we really never thought that we should bring it to anyone's attention because we were'nt sure what this thing was. There was a plane which was traveling ( in the opposite direction) high above the helicopter but this object was high above the plane. I am not going to conclude precisely that this was indeed an UFO for I still do not know what the heck this thing was but I know for certain that this was something like I aint never seen before. And the movement and awe startled me. If there's anyone who had a similar experience I would sure like to know what this was, maybe some expert can contact me or even someone who is a doubter. I know we were'nt dreaming, we had no strong drink, I dont smoke and i dont think my workmate does. Let me say one other thing, the direction in which the object move is as if it made a sideways V.