New York, NY - Disk

Lengthy observation of low flying, large spacecraft hovering just above Throggs Neck Bridge: September, 1964

I am now a retired attorney, and have been married for 40 years with 2 grown children. I have held several significant positions since my retirement. I say this knowing that my pedigree may mean nothing to my credibility once this story has been told.

While returning from upstate NY, and heading south along the parkway, we saw a large, lighted object in the distance, hovering over the Throggs Neck Bridge. We all thought it was a blimp. As we got onto the bridge the object, remaining stationery, was clearly visible as a flying saucer. It was above the center of the bridge with a span that was much greater than the width of the bridge. Around its center were white lights, revolving in a counter clockwise manner. The ship was silent. All passengers in EVERY other car, were looking at the craft, even the drivers! It was amazing that no one caused an accident that night. We were also motioning to one another to confirm that they saw what we saw, and they did.

Then as we were just under the ship, it went from hovering over the bridge to gliding along a path that followed the parkway to the Northern State (I believe) and turned east and followed the lighted road out to Suffolk County where it turned south and flew along the path of the Oyster Bay Expressway and out of sight. It was as if it was intrigued by the traffic and the lights of the cars and the roadways it was above. Until it sped off towards the southern portion of Long Island, it was cruising at speeds comparable to our cars' speeds. Then it darted off so fast as to become a blip in a matter of seconds.

There were times while we followed it that it darted up and down and east and west but did not deviate from the overall path I described above.

As soon as we arrived home we called up the Suffolk County A/F base and Newsday. Neither confirmed any other contact by others or that they had tracked anything on any Radar.

My brother and our 3 other passengers all spoke about what we had witnessed and, to this day, 45 years later, we still know that what we saw was a huge saucer shaped object, capable of unbelievable maneuvering and great speeds. We are convinced it was other worldly.

Were there other accounts in the area during the time I described (actually it was the first weekend of the month of September '64 and we were bringing a friend up to Albany State College to begin college.


((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD))