A mysterious orb caught on video zooming over NYC is just latest Big Apple UFO here are some famous cases

There’s more than one type of skyscraper above Manhattan.The mysterious orb caught on video zooming over the Hudson River is just the latest “UFO” incident in the Big Apple, even though the densely populated borough filled with high-rise buildings seems like an unusual setting for brushes with the unknown.A controversial alleged Stuytown alien abduction case has been the subject of a recent documentary on Netflix while there have been dozens of reports in the last year, including a dramatic close-call recently detailed by the Pentagon.One of the most famous — or infamous — alleged close encounters in the city is now the subject of “The Manhattan Alien Abduction” on Netflix, with Linda Napolitano’s claims the subject of as much attention as they were doubt.Napolitano, then 41, lived with her husband and two sons in an apartment near the Brooklyn Bridge at the time of the alleged abduction 35 years ago.The native New Yorker said that on the night of Nov.30, 1989 she was lifted out through her apartment wall in a beam of light, soared above the East River into the sky over Manhattan, and into a clam-like alien spaceship that appeared to contain volcanic fire.Napolitano shared her story with Budd Hopkins, a ufologist who was in the midst of documenting a case study centered around what he believed to be a credible individual.The alleged abductee’s hypnotic regression in the days after the event is shown in the docuseries.“Oh I feel like electricity just went through me,” Napolitano says in one exchange with her eyes closed and Hopkins leaning over her, head in his hand.“There’s someone in the room,” the allegedly hypnotized Napolitano says in the footage.She then describes being lifted through her solid door, floated in the air in her nightgown, and drawn into a fiery clam.Interview footage, both contemporary and from the early 90s, show witness accounts of varying credibility and veracity.

Many critics later poked holes in her claims.A comm...