Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Large as well as somewhat oval shaped. Not very noticeable but clearly seen from up high. Took some time to actually notice it's odd appearance considering how far away it was, as well as the bright city lights and other helicopters and planes around it. Showed an odd variety of colors. Most of the time, before it started to slowly move away and shrink it seemed to be purple, however when looking at it from a microscope it seemed to be a mixture of various reds, blues, and possible shades of white. It might have seemed greenish at points, although I'm not sure. When at the end it began to fade away it appeared as a faint orange.

Size of Object(s)

This is sort of hard to describe. Relative size to a star or celestial object, let's say the moon, would be about 1/4th or 1/5th of the moon in terms of visible size.

Description of Area / Surroundings

It was a highly populated urban environment with a lot of light pollution. The only "special sites" I knew of near the "ufo" I guess were the sky scrapers of New York that tower over the relatively high buildings of the city. Other than that I'm not sure, I mean it's new york, I'm sure there are millions of not really noticeable "special sites". I mean you could describe the military recruiting station in Times Square as "special".

Full Description & Details

I was looking out the window from a room on the 37th floor of my friends building with her and another friend. I randomly brought up the topic of aliens as i sometimes do and then stopped the conversation(not that that's of any importance, i highly doubt that ET's were reading my thoughts). We then continued to go about our business when we noticed a somewhat large, faint object in the sky. I thought it was probably a helicopter or something but in addition to being slightly larger, it also had no definite shape and was displaying a wide variety of colors. I still didn't think anything of it but the ONE thing that got me, the ultimate skeptic convinced was when I saw a small orange object that was definitely a helicopter or something fly near it. When the human craft came very close to the larger object, the object quite literally vanished. The orange helicopter flew on and then seconds later, with the helicopter on the other side, the object appeared again. It was a small sighting but for me it was simply incredible. We were looking towards the northeast, and were located in the 60's on the upper west side. We looked on for about 35 minutes or so simultaneously joking about our new ufo hysteria, and also genuinely looking at the odd object in the sky that was quite far away, although definitely noticeable. Our sighting started at approximately 9:45 p.m. It was on August 31st, 2010. That vanishing affect is the one thing that still haunts me. I have always been very interested in cosmology and most of all astro-biology. I am fascinated by the prospects of extraterrestrial intelligence in the cosmos. I don't think we can possibly even begin to expect anything since creatures from other worlds will be different from anything we have ever seen on earth and quite possibly too alien for us to understand or communicate properly with. I do believe that intelligent life is rare, however that being said "rare" on a cosmic scale still means hundreds if not thousands of different civilizations. It may be nothing but i think it's important to regard some ufo sightings with respect since they can sometimes come from people like me. 99% of the time I do not believe in any of this ufo, crop circle, ancient alien stuff. I still don't, but this one sighting was indescribable and very odd. I think it's important to try to scientifically understand the UFO phenomenon. Maybe these aren't ET's but then we should work on discovering what they are. Even if 95% of the time they can be explained, what about the countless other reports that are genuine, and truly cannot be. Many governments around the world, including the U.S., have now released UFO files in which they publicly list reports by their own gov.'t/military personnel of objects they can't identify or understand.......that say's a lot doesn't it?

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

highly unlikely.

Witness Background

high school student

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I usually regard 99% of the ufo phenomenon as completely bogus. I now view about 90% of it as bogus.

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