New York Scanned by Airborne Sharks With Fricking Lasers! (Minus the Sharks)

Airborne lasers  shooting at the streets of New York. I know: putting those phrases together in a sentence makes it sound like a plot for an Austin Powers movie, but take a chill pill--it's for your safety and convenience, New York. 

From April 14th to April 30th this year, an aircraft patrolled Manhattan at a height of 3,500 feet, sinisterly tracking back and forth in the sky and firing laser beams at the city. Fricking laser beams! From space! But alas, there were no space craft or even...