- New York City's Central Park UFO Filmed
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- Date: June 20, 2004
- Time: Daytime Sighting
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- Hi Brian: Here are the UFO photos (vidcaps) taken
from the few seconds of video that I shot on June 20, 2004 while in New
York City's Central Park. The day started great when I and my wife
decided to go for a walk and the minute we stepped out on to the street
from our apartment building I looked up, as I've trained myself to do,
and saw a UFO flying due East and visible between clouds; a good portent
of things to come. Even though I had my digital camcorder with me I was
so excited that I forgot to use it! While in Central Park I went to Belvedere
"Castle" which is really a weather station but looks like a medieval
castle and allows a wide view of "The Great Lawn" and the buildings along
the west and east avenues of Central Park and north of 110th Street. I
started videotaping distant airplanes for reference and to improve my handling
of the camcorder when using its 20X optical zoom at maximum. I was
shooting from the rock stairs that overlook "Turtle Pond"
and the "Delacorte Theatre."
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- Looking northeast I could see airplanes ascending from
LaGuardia Airport and visible just over the top of the distant apartment
buildings. I started shooting with an overall view of the visible
foreground area of the park in front of me and zoomed in on an airplane
that had just become into visible above the buildings on the east side
of 5th Avenue. I did not zoom in on the plane but the area into which
the airplane was going to fly into as it ascended. At the same
time I zoomed in and grabbed a few seconds of video of the airplane, I
lost my footing on the stairs and started to topple forward. I don't remember
now if I was aware of the white spot that would eventually become identified
as a UFO, but looking at the video I must have been aware of it since when
I did get my balance back I started looking for the white spot and
passed by it without realizing it.
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- The reason I couldn't find the UFO again with my eye
looking through the viewfinder (which is my preferred method of videotaping)
but the camcorder did get, has to do with I consider a big problem that
some video-graphers have to deal with and that is the resolution
of the camcorder's color viewfinder. The built-in monitor may have more
resolution than the viewfinder but I don't think it's still good enough
to show such small details as the white spot identified as a UFO. In the first
overall-scene photo you cannot see the white spot which
as you can see in the close-up photos is a real UFO.
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- I've had to return earlier camcorders because of this
same viewfinder resolution problem when I tried videotaping a balloon
and couldn't see the balloon in the viewfinder even though I could
see it with my naked eyes and hunted all over the sky and gave up.
That camcorder did not have a monitor. And since in the above Central
Park situation I didn't know that I was going to include a UFO in
my "practice" shooting, I could not have relied on the monitor
screen.
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- I'm sorry to say that after the above incident I had
two other UFO sightings that would have been impressive if I hadn't, first, run
into technical problem, and not having the camcorder with me for the second
and long-lasting sighting that drew the attention of other passersby after
they noticed me craning my neck for what had to be about 5 minutes!
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- Re: the photos below:
- #1 - Overall view. The UFO will become visible above
and between the two buildings in the center of the photo.
- #2 - Close-up of the center buildings with the UFO just
becoming visible in the clouds.
- #3, #4, #5 - Various similar scenes removing all doubt
about the reality of a UFO.
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- Photos are © 2004 Edward Lopez. Also Edward can
be contacted:
- nyceddie@earthlink.net
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- Thank you to the witness for sending in the photos and
report.
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