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Jen Carlson
Published Nov 12, 2009
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Are aliens checking out Manhattan? One man says he filmed a "red craft" UFO for four nights straight this month, and has some footage to back up his claim. He says he filmed from The Great Hill in Central Park, saying, "When I started filming, it hovers about then suddenly I descends near the Reservoir. Slowly and vanishes. After about 30 min, when I got home, It popped up again for about 40 more minutes and morphed into a Plane... I know its sounds crazy... Its been out for about 4 nights so far... For some reason it knows I'm filming it."
Paranoid? Hoax? Too much liquid marijuana? Or are things about to get all Independence Day up in here...
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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