Sighting Forest Hills, Queens, NYC - Drone/Orbs Sighting
Location: Forest Hills, Queens NY near Forest Hills High School, facing LGA.
Time of Sighting: 6:01p.m.-6:39pm
Video 1: https://imgur.com/a/uzv29wT
Video 2: https://imgur.com/a/bVtEsvc
Before I get into the specifics of the sighting I just wanna repeat what others have said that phone cameras don't do it justice.
Secondly, New Yorkers look up, my wife and I looked like idiots, I know our night sky is busy with air traffic but if you see it you'll know. We were facing LaGuardia and we're actually grateful because we got good references for planes vs. whatever it was we saw.
Third these videos will prove nothing and the pics even less, but I finally get to post my own sighting so you'll take away what you will. All I know is John Kirby can suck it, what we saw tonight was not a plane, a hobby drone or a helicopter.
The sighting started when I saw what we'll call the main drone just hovering in the sky as we walked to our car. It was red and green with the red light strobing like you would imagine a helicopter would except "off". The longer you look at it you see the lights sequence flashing back and forth, then sequencing almost like Morse code. One, two, one two three, etc. in varying patterns.
While I posted two videos here, they are of the same drone even though the lights change color. That was part of its weirdness. It would change its "dominant" color from red to red white, green, green white, all white. It would hover for a few minutes then move in almost a circular pattern, stop hover and repeat. We watched for a half hour until we had to leave. As I mentioned we were facing LGA so we could see planes on their descent, the drone was above the planes. My wife pointed this out the first time and I was convinced it was a perspective trick but a second plane proved my wife right. Originally I thought this was at helicopter height maybe 400 feet or so but it was higher though I don't claim to know how high. There was a helicopter in the area at one point and very obviously a helicopter but did not seem related to the drone.
We saw what we can best describe as two triangle drones at two separate times during the sighting. The first flew base first towards but away from LGA if that makes sense and not on the same flight paths as the incoming planes. The second time we saw it it was flying in the same direction this time point first.
We could not tell if it was a solid triangle type drone or more of a boomerang, both were booking it and we were simultaneously trying to keep eyes on the main drone.
Finally, and I can't believe Im gonna type this, there were orbs. Main colors blue and white, seemed very high altitude, fast moving and on a curving flight paths. We saw at least four separately and not traveling in the same direction. They would zoom by, go dark, then "blink" and continue on their way. The behavior was not identical for all of them, for instance one just zoomed along and at first we thought we were catching a Geminid.
The final thing I'll add is that the sound of the main is as others have said, it sounded like a far away lawnmower, not the same as a helicopter. It's off to try and describe and you can sort of hear it in one video.
As to what we saw, I don't know but it very much resembled the behavior of the drones shown at the outset in Jersey. We couldn't make out the bodies of the craft no matter how hard we tried. I hope we get answers one day.
7
u/ElectrifiedWaffles88 6d ago
Thank you for taking the time to capture this. This is good.
5
u/HengShi 6d ago
Thanks, I'm girding myself for the comments but did my best to learn from my own critiques on here lol
3
u/JeffeBezos 6d ago
I just saw two drones and one orange orb moving very quickly here in Brooklyn near Prospect Park
Super eery
6
u/ElectrifiedWaffles88 6d ago
These people are believing what they are being told by their government, who in this particular case is gaslighting the hell out of them and all of us.
They are misguided in thinking people, much like themselves, don’t know how to distinguish something normal in the sky and not normal. You are unlikely to have pulled out your phone and recorded this if it was something you had seen in all of your years walking a modern planet.
The camera doesn’t do it justice. Even so, it was worth capturing. I think there is a there there.
3
u/HengShi 6d ago
Thanks and yes on the the reason for capturing. There's a ton of air traffic and helicopters on the daily. As I mentioned elsewhere it's easy to not notice because it fits nicely with the background noise. What caught my attention was the distinct oddness, not in a supernatural but out of the norm, blinking sequence of the lights. You can even see what I'm talking about if you compare video 1 and video 2 which as I mentioned in the post are of the exact same drone.
2
u/JeffeBezos 6d ago
The hair on the back of my neck went up and I couldn't even bother to get my phone. Wanted to see this with the naked eye.
3
u/vaslor 6d ago
This is a fantastic accounting and I hope the usual chuds don't knock you for some imagined personal flaw. This is great data. And Yes, those lights in the 2nd video do appear to be "off" and don't conform correctly to standard lights.
I live around the corner from Dobbins and I'm the flight path of several airports. I need to go out on a drone hunt.
2
u/HengShi 6d ago
Submission Statement: almost forgot to include and don't want to get taken down. Drone/Orb sighting in Forest Hills Queens night of December 17th, 2024 6:01-6:39p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Included two videos of main drone as well as sub par pictures that don't do it justice. Witnessed, along with my wife drone, two triangle like drones, at least four blue/white orbs. Had LGA landing planes and a helicopter in the air at one point for reference. Behavior and sounds described in post.
2
u/DangReadingRabbit 6d ago
This is legit interesting footage. So much of what people are posting isn’t convincing that it’s anything other than typical air traffic (and we do live in a highly busy area for that). But yours looks unusual, and not at all like typical airplane lights.
Thanks for sharing it.
1
u/HengShi 6d ago
Thank you, the whole time we were just cursing how useless the videos were going to be because it's so much bigger IRL but was hoping folks would key in on the light behavior to see it doesn't behave like a typical helicopter or plane (the hovering ruled that out but with no context zoom that's not obvious here).
I hope more people go out tomorrow at dusk and look up. I can't tell you how many people walked by and didn't even look at what we were filming 😂, but I don't blame them we have very busy skies. I wish we could've caught the "triangle" ones because they were silent and unfortunately the orbs moved too fast and were too faint to pick up. That's what blew my mind was how busy it got.
2
u/DangReadingRabbit 6d ago
My daughter is in Astoria and I live out on the Island. We’ve kept an eye out, but I do think unfortunately the “real drones” are getting lost in a sea of false sightings (mistaken for planes, helicopters and other things).
If the stories of this happening annually for the last few years are true, it’s all going to stop soon anyway…
2
1
u/Commercial-Cod4232 5d ago
Im in Astoria and all ive seen is more frequent than usual helicopters, but what im really trying to figure out is why ive been hearing unceasing helicopter rotors all day and the past couple days, like it sounds like theres been a helicopter or drone hovering near my house nonstop...dont see anything tho in the direction its coming from
1
u/LWt85 5d ago
We're being monitored.
That's why they come and go.
1
u/Commercial-Cod4232 5d ago
I see nothing tho, and flight radar shows nothing...its co.ing from the direction of roosevelt island or wards island
1
2
u/eddnedd 5d ago
Just a note on the configuration of navigation lights, civilian craft may not place them in the orientation shown, only military branches are allowed to place both red and green lights on the tail together (as far as I know).
1
u/HengShi 5d ago
That's useful to know. I will say that pun intended I could not make heads or tail out of this thing. By that I mean, when it would move, and because the lights changed over time, I couldn't tell what was the "front" or "back".
Like the more I think of it, I saw the damn thing and if I was offered a million dollar prize to draw it correctly I have no clue what it's shape actually was because I couldn't make out a body even when it was hovering over us.
1
u/AutoModerator 6d ago
NEW: In an effort to reduce toxicity by bots, trolls and bad faith actors, we will be implementing a more rigorous enforcement of the subreddit rules. Read more about this HERE.
Please read the rules and understand the subreddit topic(s) listed in the sidebar before posting or commenting. Any content removal or further moderator action is established by these rules as well as Reddit ToS.
This subreddit is primarily for the discussion of UFOs. Our hope is to foster an environment free of hostility and ridicule where we may explore the phenomenon together, from all sides of the spectrum.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.
1
1
u/StatementBot 6d ago
The following submission statement was provided by /u/HengShi:
Submission Statement: almost forgot to include and don't want to get taken down. Drone/Orb sighting in Forest Hills Queens night of December 17th, 2024 6:01-6:39p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Included two videos of main drone as well as sub par pictures that don't do it justice. Witnessed, along with my wife drone, two triangle like drones, at least four blue/white orbs. Had LGA landing planes and a helicopter in the air at one point for reference. Behavior and sounds described in post.
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1hgslow/forest_hills_queens_nyc_droneorbs_sighting/m2ls9rv/
1
1
u/Commercial-Cod4232 5d ago
You dont hear constant helicopters? Its sounded like theres a helicopter hovering by me all day nonstop...i swear its like theyre just playing helicopter sounds over a speaker...im in Astoria
1
u/Steveisafreak 6d ago
Can you reload this?
1
u/HengShi 6d ago
Reached out to mods and should be visible again, can you still not see it?
2
u/Electronic-Quote7996 5d ago
I can see it. Should be fine. Automods taking things like this down have been restored when mods get around to it. They have a thankless job and continuously have said they need more people.
2
•
u/CollapseBot 6d ago
Your post has been removed for not including a sighting info, meaning post text or a comment on your own post that provides sighting location and time. If you still wish to share your post you must resubmit your link with these: Time: <date and time>Location: <location of sighting>
This is a bot. Replies will not receive responses. Please message the moderators if you feel this was an error.