In eerie footage shot by a local news helicopter, a mysterious orb-like object appears to zoom over the Hudson River and past Lower Manhattan.
A Fox 5 news report that aired Monday accidentally caught an object or light seemingly gliding in the crystal clear New York sky, making an arching pathway toward the news chopper filming from south of Battery Park.
The orb appears white in the distance and takes on a blue tint as it approaches the camera.
The speckle appears to outpace every boat on the Hudson and quickly arcs its way past the news chopper’s camera.
But some of the world’s foremost ufologists have doubts that the orb is a real-world object.
Avi Loeb, a theoretical physician, cosmologist and Harvard professor, believes the apparent orb is a trick of the lights.
“This is most likely an optical artifact from the helicopter glass in front of the camera, namely a bright spot from the reflection of sunlight as the camera gradually changes its orientation relative to the sun and the ground,” Loeb tells The Post.
“But even if it was a real object, the apparent speed is of an order the speed of sound and not extraordinary,” Loeb concludes.
Tim Gallaudet, a retired rear admiral in the United States Navy and CEO of Ocean STL consulting, agreed.
“For several reasons, looks like an artifact and not an actual UAP,” Gallaudet told The Post, using the acronym for “unidentified aerial phenomenon.”
A rep for “Good Day New York,” which originally aired the clip, said they couldn’t say when the footage was recorded — but that it was likely within the last calendar year.
Some have theorized the image is of a drone that appears to be moving faster than it actually is because of the speed of the helicopter and the movement of the camera frame.
A similar “parallax effect” was just used as an explainer for the famous “GOFAST” UAP FLIR radar video, which the Pentagon reportedly solved on Tuesday.
“Good Day” also confirmed that the footage has not been tampered with by digital editors on its staff. The orb appears to be opaque, not transparent or translucent.
