Well,\u00a0dots\u00a0odd \u2014 even for New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A trio of mysterious, luminous dots was recently spotted hovering over Gotham, triggering a fresh wave of conspiracy theories and suspicions.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI came out of my house in Corona, Queens,\u00a0and looked up to what I thought was a shooting star, but then [two] more joined it,\u201d Charlie Correa captioned the 18-second Reddit clip<\/a>. \u201cThey looked to be chasing each other around before [I] recorded this.\u201d<\/p>\n Charlie Correa, a Reddit user from Corona, Queens, shared viral footage of a strange trio of objects flying over New York City on Sunday, March 8, at 8:30 p.m. NYPost Composite<\/p>\n Visuals of the spectacle show the orbs traveling in erratic unison, in a mostly triangular formation, across the night sky.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI have a drone, and it either emits a green or red blinking light or no lights when recording,\u201d Correa explained beneath the vid, time-stamping it on March 8 at 8:30 p.m. \u201cGovernment drones? UFOs.\u201d<\/p>\n Or maybe a few aliens just wanted to see the NYC sights.\u00a0<\/p>\n The faint orbs stood still over NYC for a few seconds before darting away into the darkness. Reddit\/u\/Chewy718<\/p>\n Representatives for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) exclusively told The Post that the agency \u201c\u2026documents Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings whenever a pilot reports one to an air traffic control facility.<\/p>\n \u201cIf supporting information such as radar data corroborates the report, the FAA shares it with the\u202fUAP Task Force<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The authorities declined to comment specifically on the Reddit footage.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMultiple U.S. government agencies have individual programs or processes to study and document UAP. However, the agencies also work collaboratively on the topic,\u201d continued the spokesperson. \u201dThe Department of War All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office\u00a0serves as the\u00a0centralized clearing house for UAP reporting impacting national security or safety.\u201d<\/p>\n The FAA told The Post that it documents Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings whenever a pilot reports one to an air traffic control facility. astrosystem \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n Still, social media sleuths did their best to guess the origin of those little shiny dots, wondering aloud if the oddities might have been birds, planes or even mischievous celestial bodies.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe birds [and] the luminosity is coming from exterior sources (the ground),\u201d a Redditor suggested.\u00a0<\/p>\n Others blamed it on Correa\u2019s proximity to heavy air traffic. But the Queens resident quickly quashed that notion, writing, \u201cLa Guardia Airport is probably 1 mile north from where I live, so it would be weird to not catch a FAA call or something?\u201d<\/p>\n Rather than a flock of winged animals, wayward aircraft or Big Apple-curious aliens, one jokester wrote, \u201cNah, those are just stars playing tag.\u201d<\/p>\n But UFO sightings aren\u2019t exactly a laughing matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n A troubling 66 of the freakish misfits were spotted\u00a0zipping through the heavens above New York\u00a0<\/a>during the first half of 2025, according to data. And a commercial flight\u00a0had a \u201cnear miss\u201d encounter\u00a0<\/a>with an unknown \u201ccylindrical object\u201d while traveling over the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of the Empire State in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n Following the incident, the Pentagon\u2019s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was forced to release a statement assuring spooked Earthlings of their safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt is important to underscore that, to date,\u201d reps for the office wrote in a report,\u201cAARO has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well,\u00a0dots\u00a0odd \u2014 even for New York City.\u00a0 A trio of mysterious, luminous dots was recently spotted hovering over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[7436,232,57,9,24,63,122,124,123,12190,6786,1688,11318],"class_list":["post-162563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-aliens","tag-lifestyle","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-reddit","tag-ufos","tag-viral-videos","tag-weird-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}