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22 The Day Manhattan Stood Still 22 The Day Manhattan Stood Still "The Day Manhattan "The Day Manhattan tood Still" S Stood Still" TRUE EYE- '' '' A A TRUE EYE- WITNESS ACCOUNT WITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE SOUTH OF THE SOUTH STREET STREET ABDUCTIONS '' ABDUCTIONS '' By Yancy Spence By Yancy Spence When I heard UFO MAGAZINE publisher William J. Brines speak at the recent MUFON conference in Rochester, NY, I was intrigued with what he said about “consecutive the plant, I took the Manhattan Bridge. At that them were screaming and looked like crazed evidence,” every step along the way. Later, time, both lanes under the pedestrians walkway birds locked in a cage, as others pointed back when I ran into Dr. Brines at the Hyatt Hotel, I were carrying Manhattan-bound traffic. At toward Knickerbocker. It was surreal and it told him my story had everything to do with exactly 3:15 AM, I was a third of the way over scared the hell out of me. such evidence. I am a witness to a remarkable the crest, with no traffic ahead of me, when my When I looked back toward UFO event, The Brooklyn Bridge Abductions, trucks lights and engine shut down, and the Knickerbocker there was a totally different which has been called by ufologists “the case of truck coasted to a stop. I tried the emergency light. It was bluish-white with a cloudy mist and the century.”Being an eye witness, I can easily lights, but they didn't work either. shaped like a stage spotlight coming down from say it's " the case of the millenniums." The I looked into my side-view mirror to see above. Within this light appeared what looked proverbial landing on the White house lawn, who was going to pile into me, and then saw all like four “balls” ascending in an arrowhead they just chose the harbor of lower Manhattan of the headlights of the vehicles behind me go formation. They were tumbling, and as they got instead. out. And they also slowly coasted to a stop. It closer to the source of the light, the balls opened If you follow the evidence, you get to felt like everything was going into slow motion. up like blooming flowers. I could see that there the truth of what actually happened on the The bridges lights went out and everything went were three gray aliens in dark jumpsuit’s in a morning of November 30, 1989. The facts of dark. In retrospect, I believe that a power grid in triangular formation surrounding an angelic- what I personally saw have yet to be made Lower Manhattan shut down. It was an eerie looking, dark-haired women in a white gown. public. Most of my recollections of that sight, to say the least. Outside of my window, I Her long hair flowed out in all directions, as if morning came back to me as instant, total recall. caught sight of a beam of red light playing in a pool of water. They all looked like they I eventually put things together with what went across the nearby buildings. The light changed were being pulled up by their mid-sections. I on at the Manhattan offices of the New York to a greenish-white color and became pencil thought, at the time, that each body was being Post right after the event – or abduction, if you thin as it traveled across the building facades. lifted on cables and that they were making a like – occurred. This took a lot of legwork, plus Whoever was outside at the time had to see it, movie. the help of some trustworthy gentlemen that I've because this beam of light was the only power That's all I remembered of the had the pleasure to work with and become close source working in the blackout. One of my experience at first. Over the course of the next friends with over the 28 years I've worked at the thoughts was that this must be some kind of four weeks, however, more details resurfaced, Post in the delivery department. laser test that the Brooklyn Navy Yard was and that's when I “remembered” the spacecraft. About a dozen people remember the conducting, but the source of the light stopped It was saucer shaped, and the bottom half was procession of stretch limos that was parked on before the East River. outer space black with angled sections like a South Street (where the New York Post is The shape of the light kept changing stealth fighter. The saucers top half was located). These obviously belonged to some from an oblong oval to a perfect circle. It mushroom shaped – very “organic” and smooth very important people. I, myself, remember the focused in on one of the top floors of a nearby with a gray metallic color. The construction ugly colored Rolls Royce parked at the end of building. At first, I couldn't make out what looked as if it was laminated. At the crown was the little pedestrian island that faces the loading building it was. But as if to answer my thoughts, an open donut-shaped hole, and inside was what bays for the delivery trucks. The Rolls was the beam of light shot down to street level and looked molten metal or some kind of fluid. parked the wrong way on South Street, and the ran the length of the block, exposing the two Whatever that substance was, it was percolating chauffeur was standing just outside the driver’s- sets of very distinctive 15-foot-high inverted like a volcanic mud bed. The rim was a bright side door. He had his driving hat off and placed metal fishhook gates. These were riot gates used red and the center was an even brighter yellow. on the Rolls’ long hood. His arms were crossed to protect the only two entrance ways into the In a fraction of a second, that molten mass like Superman, daring some crazy New York courtyards of the Knickerbocker apartment dissipated to the inside of the dome, turning to cabbies to run him down. The Rolls has been complex, on Cherry St.. liquid fire and spinning around linked to the then-Secretary General of the I've seen that building thousands of counterclockwise like a giant cotton candy United Nations. The four men I tracked down times. How could I not know it was the machine. The outside of the dome turned a all remembered the Rolls and line of more than Knickerbocker? The light beam then shot back bright red. And then the saucer and its a dozen dark limos. One of these men was Steve up to the top floor of the center building, the one occupants just disappeared. Dunleavy, Investigative Reporter, who with the exposed water tank, and focused on the Afterwards, I remember everyone remembers the limos but not the Rolls. bottom half of a double-pane window. There casually getting back into her or his vehicle, That morning, at 2:30 AM, I was was a window to the right of it that was half the starting them up, then continuing their drive off upstairs in the South Street Diner, which is on size, probably a bathroom window. This the bridge. They were all probably thinking the the corner of South Street and Catherine Slip. I greenish-white light beam started to grow same thing I was, that whatever it was we had was told to report in early for my route, which brighter and more intense. Then, for some just seen would be on the news or in the papers. didn't go out until 4:00 AM. One of my bosses reason, I looked at my side view mirror, and at But, by the time I went 10 feet, the entire asked me to give his cousin a ride to Shore that instant the sky lit up. I saw maybe two- incident was forgotten. Parkway, the “Riviera of Brooklyn,” or so he dozen people who were now outside of their told me before I dropped him off. To get back to stalled vehicles, the flash illuminated them Continued on Page 23 through the bridges superstructure. Some of