I’m sure many will call this a hoax and who would blame them. However, I’d advise that we not jump to conclusions here.

On 17, September, an as yet unnamed Photographer was talking pictures of the Freedom Tower from the roof terrace of the new Museum located on Bowery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It was late afternoon and he was getting free hand shots of the construction. It was a standard shoot and he noticed nothing out of the ordinary

That is to say, nothing out of the ordinary until later that night when he examined the pictures. It was then that he noticed the odd diamond shaped object in 4 frames of the set he had done. On closer inspection he noticed markings and windows on what appeared to be some sort of craft.

The object “had to be moving at an incredible rate of speed for it to have moved as far as it did give the frame rate it was captured at”, said the photographer. He also noticed faint blue and red lights coming from the UFO.

The photog immediately filed a report with MUFON.

On a side note: With 46 reports in August alone, NY is at Alert level 3 for UFO activity. I didn’t even know they had these “alert levels” for UFOs.

Here’s some additional information on this event from examiner.com:

A New York photographer shooting the new Freedom Tower from Manhattan’s Lower East Side submitted images of a diamond-shaped object that appeared in three frames shot at a fast exposure rate, according to September 23, 2011, testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

“On closer inspection I noticed what appeared to be regular markings and windows on the craft,” the witness stated. “It had to be moving at an incredible rate of speed for it to have moved as far as it did give the frame rate it was captured at. It seems to be faintly emitting both blue and red light from the openings on its back area.”

The photographer is looking for additional opinions on what the object might be. The MUFON report was filed on September 23, 2011. The event occurred on September 17, 2011. The above quotes were edited for clarity.

New York is a current UFO ALERT 3 rating, with a high number of UFO sightings nationally. New York had 46 reports in August 2011 – the 5th highest reporting state – while California had 127 UFO reports – the highest reporting state in the nation.

You can read more details about other recently reported cases at the UFO Examiner home page.

The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

NY, September 17, 2011 – Taking photographs of downtown Manhattan skyline I captured and extremely fast moving craft of some sort. MUFON Case # 32025.

The event occurred last Saturday 9-17-2011

In the early afternoon I was taking digital photographs from the roof terrace of the new Museum located on Bowery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. I was shooting a series of images of the downtown Manhattan skyline to get some pictures of the Freedom tower construction.

Because I had no tripod I was shooting at a very fast exposure rate 1/500th of a second. In addition I was shooting in continuous mode at a frame rate of about 4 Frames per second. I took my pictures and left the location.

Last night upon looking at the images, I noticed a diamond shaped object moving very close to the horizon in four frames of my images.

On closer inspection I noticed what appeared to be regular markings and windows on the craft. I had to be moving at an incredible rate of speed for it to have moved as far as it did give the frame rate it was captured at.

It seems to be faintly emitting both blue and red light from the openings on its back area.

A helicopter was also present in the nearby vicinity.

At first I thought it was a flag or something, but soon realized there was no flag pole and from frame to frame its shape stays regular.

I’m hoping an expert in this type of thing can help me to rule out any other possible explanations for what they think this might be.

Please contact me A.S.A.P. as I am curious to get another opinion, especially an expert one.

The three images I have supplied are lower resolution details of the actual four images that were taken as described above.

Source: Examiner.com

Now I don’t want to give anyone the impression that I know what this UFO is, but it does look an awful lot like a street sign or possibly one of those (very light) foam core signs. I could very likely be wrong and it wouldn’t be the first time.

I’ll leave this up to you the reader to decide for yourself.