A New York resident has captured video of what he described as three glowing objects ‘chasing each other’ across the night sky over Queens on Sunday 8 March, fuelling fresh debate over a possible UFO sighting in one of the busiest air corridors in the United States.
For context, the footage emerged from Corona, a neighbourhood less than a mile south of LaGuardia Airport, where aircraft, helicopters and drones are a routine backdrop. Yet the brief 18‑second clip, shared on Reddit and reposted widely, has drawn attention precisely because the objects do not behave like the usual traffic that threads across New York’s skies, at least according to the man who filmed them.
‘I came out of my house in Corona, Queens, and looked up to what I thought was a shooting star, but then [two] more joined it,’ wrote Reddit user Charlie Correa, who posted the video and described the incident as happening at about 8.30pm. ‘They looked to be chasing each other around before [I] recorded this.’
The video, though grainy, shows three faint, luminous orbs shifting across a dark sky in what appears to be a loose triangular pattern. At points they seem almost to hang in place, then drift or dart away in what viewers have interpreted as co‑ordinated movement. The quality is exactly what you might expect from a phone pointed upwards in a hurry, which has not stopped online commentators poring over every frame.
Correa, who said he owns a drone himself, used that experience to push back on one of the more prosaic explanations. ‘I have a drone, and it either emits a green or red blinking light or no lights when recording,’ he wrote under the clip. He then offered two stark possibilities, neither of them especially comforting or mundane, asking: ‘Government drones? UFOs.’
Officials Cautious As UFO Clip Gains Traction
The video’s spread coincided with heightened interest in UFO incidents across the US, but federal authorities have kept their distance from this specific case. Representatives for the Federal Aviation Administration told the New York Post that the agency records Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings whenever a pilot reports something unusual to air traffic control, and that any radar or other data that backs up such reports is passed on to the government’s UAP Task Force.
However, the FAA declined to comment on Correa’s footage in particular. In other words, there is no official confirmation that the objects were seen by pilots or tracked by radar, and without that kind of supporting material, the clip remains exactly what it appears to be: a curious fragment of video from the ground. Until more data is released, any attempt to pin down what the objects were should be treated with caution and, frankly, a grain of salt.
A federal spokesperson noted that several US agencies now run their own programmes to log and study UAP, while sharing information between them. The Pentagon’s Department of Defense All‑Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, better known by its abbreviation AARO, acts as a central clearing house when a sighting is judged to have implications for national security or aviation safety.
That sounds suitably high‑tech and thorough, but in public at least, AARO has been at pains to cool the more dramatic theories. After a separate incident involving a commercial aircraft and a mysterious ‘cylindrical object’ over the Atlantic near New York in 2024, the office reiterated its bottom line in a report. ‘It is important to underscore that, to date, AARO has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology,’ officials wrote.
New York’s Recent UFO History Weighs In
Still, New York is not exactly a blank slate when it comes to unexplained lights in the sky, and it is that recent history that gives episodes like Correa’s extra charge. According to data cited in the report, there were 66 UFO sightings recorded over New York in the first half of 2025 alone, a tally that ranges from fleeting glints over Manhattan to more elaborate accounts by pilots and residents along the coast.
Most of these incidents never rise above the level of local curiosity. Planes, satellites, weather balloons, birds catching stray beams from the city below: those are the usual suspects marshalled by sceptics when mysterious videos surface. Social media users duly lined up the options after Correa’s upload, with one commenter suggesting the orbs could simply be birds reflecting light from the ground.
Others pointed the finger at the area’s heavy air traffic, implying that the lights might be ordinary aircraft photographed at an odd angle. Correa rejected that reading, pointing out that his Corona home sits extremely close to LaGuardia. ‘La Guardia Airport is probably 1 mile north from where I live, so it would be weird to not catch a FAA call or something?’ he wrote, arguing that the pattern and behaviour of the lights did not match what he routinely sees.
Reddit being Reddit, levity crept in alongside speculation. ‘Nah, those are just stars playing tag,’ one user joked, a reminder that even in a thread about a possible UFO, the internet does not entirely abandon its instinct to mock the unexplainable.
Yet for all the banter, there is a more serious undercurrent. The word UFO may have been officially retired in favour of UAP in bureaucratic circles, but it still carries decades of cultural baggage, from Cold War scares to blockbuster cinema. When three pale dots appear to dance above Queens, people reach for familiar stories, whether that means top‑secret Pentagon hardware or visitors drawn to the lights of Manhattan.
What is missing, for now, is precisely the kind of evidence that might nudge this New York sighting from internet curiosity into the pile that officials have to wrestle with. Until a pilot logs a report, or radar shows something odd, or a government office says otherwise, Correa’s orbs will remain what they currently are: three unexplained points of light on a phone screen, dragging the word UFO back into everyday conversation in a city that has seen almost everything.
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