New Yorkers along Manhattan's west side flooded the Federal Aviation Administration's phone lines Wednesday afternoon with reports of shiny silver objects floating high in the sky.

Unsure of what they were seeing, some onlookers swore the objects were UFOs, while others dismissed them as gray or yellow balloons. Regardless of what the objects were, New York media outlets rushed to send reporters and camera crews to the streets to capture footage of the mysterious objects.

A New York Daily News reporter witnessed a silver dot floating over 23th Street and Eighth Avenue, along with dozens of other gawkers.

"We re-ran radar to see if there was anything there that we can't account for but there is nothing in the area," a spokesman for the FAA told the Daily News. "There was some helicopter traffic over the river at that time and we checked with LaGuardia Tower. And they said they had nothing going low at that time."

A CBS news station in New York claims that its cameras captured images of yellow balloons rather than spaceships from another planet.

UFO mania is spiking worldwide. Just last month, there were eight reported UFO sightings over China. Those sighting prompted some Chinese airports to halt flights temporarily.

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