So all day I have been hearing about a drone show that took place over Lower Manhattan on Wednesday night, creating a three-dimensional outline of the Twin Towers, but not a single person — and I have talked to dozens now — saw it for themselves.

ABC7 had a story about it here, but no other outlets seem to have original footage. I received no press releases about it; my friends were at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum dinner at Cipriani’s and never heard about it; other friends were out strolling last night and saw nothing. Howard Lutnick had a picture of it on his Instagram. And there’s this IG post, but something seems off…

J. found the information below on PR Newswire, which said the drone show was sponsored by the New York Foundation of the Arts, but there is nothing on that organization’s website. And the only video online is a weird assemblage of what I think are renderings on a YouTube channel for APT News, which has pictures of Trump and Putin on its masthead.

How did none of us see it??

Here’s the PR Newswire release; I am not running the images.

NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On Wednesday, September 9, a commemorative public art installation designed with voices of the 9/11 family, survivor, responder community was unveiled in the skies over New York Harbor. The free public act of reflection and unity is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation of the Arts.

2,977 lights rose over New York Harbor and rebuilt the Twin Towers at full architectural scale, one light for each life lost on 9/11, in a community gathering of remembrance.

The aerial artwork was shaped by a collective of voices from the 9/11 community, including Brenda Berkman (FDNY First Responder, Artist), Tim Brown (FDNY First Responder 1993 and 2001), Terry Strada (family of Tom Strada, President of 9/11 Families United), Jim Smith (family of NYPD Moira Smith), and Genevieve Siller (Daughter of Stephen Siller). Its members acknowledge that no one can speak for all.

Designed in dialogue with the iconic “Tribute in Light”, “2,977 Lights Over New York Harbor” suspends 2,977 individual lights in the night sky as a breathing constellation of lives. The lights gathered in a helix, swirling upward before assembling into the Twin Towers at full architectural scale.

The helix in “2,977 Lights Over New York Harbor” intentionally recalls the THINK team’s World Cultural Center, the unbuilt proposal for the rebuilt World Trade Center: a civic and cultural vision rather than another office development, its open latticework towers rising around and above the original footprints without touching them, carrying public space into the sky. The installation carries that civic proposition back into the air above the harbor.

The commemorative art work is a collaboration between artists, producers, and 9/11 families, survivors, and responders; which includes creative director Addison Mehr, producers Sky Elements, designer Yan Paul Dubbelman, artistic advisors Studio Drift, and Shigeru Ban and Dean Maltz.

The work is scored with recorded music chosen for reflection. Featuring works by Philip Glass, along with “On The Transmigration of Souls” from John Adams, written for the victims of 9/11. Additional works were provided by Max Richter, including “On the Nature of Daylight” from The Blue Notebooks.

“2,977 Lights Over New York Harbor” was produced by Addison Mehr and Sky Elements.

Production is funded entirely by private philanthropy and in-kind contribution with major support for the public art installation generously provided by The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund and 9/11 family members. Major support was provided by The Blavatnik Family Foundation, with additional support from Pershing Square Philanthropies.

“2,977 Lights Over New York Harbor” is given as a gift to the city of New York along with everyone whose life was, and continues to be affected by September 11. The production was made possible by Sky Elements Drone Shows, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and IDEKO who led federal and city permitting, safety and security operations.

“2,977 Lights Over New York Harbor” is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization founded in 1971 to serve the arts community throughout New York State and the United States.