CRAFT FLYING ACROSS THE NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE

I WAS ELEVEN AND SITTING ON THE FIRE ESCAPE AT MY GRANDMOTHERS APARTMENT LOOKING TOWARDS THE NEW YORK SKYLINE AROUND DUSK.  i SAW THE GOODYEAR BLIMP GOING TOWARDS THE CITY AND THEN I SAW SOMETHING THAT APPEARED TO BE OVAL SHAPED WITH DIFFERENT COLORED LIGHTS AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF THE OBJECT.  THE LIGHTS WERE ROTATING AROUND THE OVAL SHAPED CRAFT.  THE CRAFT WAS GOING ACROSS THE SKY IN A STRAIGHT LINE AWAY FROM THE CITY.  THE SKY WAS ABSOLUTELY CLEAR AND THERE WERE OTHER AIRCRAFT IN THE SKY AT THE TIME AND THIS DID NOT LOOK LIKE ANY OF THE OTHER AIRCRAFT IN THE SKY.  A FEW YEARS LATER, I WAS LOOKING AT A "LIFE" MAGAZINE, I THINK THE YEAR WAS 1966 AND THEY HAD A BIG WRITE UP ON UFO'S.  THE PICTURE OF WHAT I SAW WAS ON THE FRONT COVER.  I TOTALLY FREAKED OUT AND HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THE HEAVENS EVER SINCE.  THE LIGHTS AROUND THIS CRAFT WERE RED,YELLOW,BLUE AND GREEN BUT THE COLOR SEEMED TO EXPAND AROUND AS IT ROTATED AROUND THE CRAFT.  IT WAS VERY STANGE BECAUSE I HAD NEVER SEEN AN AIRCRAFT WITH LIGHT LIKE THAT.
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