This image was taken at sunset on a winter day in Brooklyn (Red Hook docks). Look closely to the area left of the Statue of Liberty and you'll see seven flying objects that have a sort of figure-eight flight path. I took a few more shots of the same scene and the other images have different counts of the flying objects: one image has four, another five...

This area is on route to the airports in Queens, but I also took images of this same scene with airplanes in them and you can clearly see the planes' lights and wings. These flying objects have none of those features.

Also, why would that many airplanes be flying so close to each other?

This area is

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