2003-11-08 - New York, NY - Triangle

"V" shaped light formations over manhattan during lunar eclipse

we were outside on the roof of an apartment building at 39th street waatching the lunar eclipse. in the sky opposite the lunar eclipse we started seeing these strange light formations. the first one we saw came from the north west and headed south east and as it went by it seemed to be followed by a jet aircraft. the shape of the unidentified object was almost like a flock of birds but there appeared to be multicolored lights in a "v" or triangular shape and there was no noise at all. at first we thought it might be people in gliders or ultralights but that just did't make sense as we were in midtown manhattan only a few blocks north of the empire state building, you would think that activity like that would bring up some helicopters but there were none. we continued to seen objects that appeared high in the sky in the spahe of a "v" or triangle with multicolored lights, they would seem to appear from nowhere and fly off quickly, they all seemed to be coming from the west or north. what so noticable was the absolute lack of noise from these objects and the strange shape. I managed to take one picture but it is slightly blurry and doesn't do the object justice.