From an article on About.com’s Paranormal section, about flying humanoids:

Brooklyn Batman: Over 100 years ago, a man named W. H. Smith told the New York Sun that he saw a ‘winged human form’ flying over Brooklyn, New York on September 18, 1877. Just about three years later, there were multiple reports from Coney Island, Brooklyn, of a man with bat-like wings flying overhead at approximately 1,000 feet. The man was flying toward the New Jersey coast, witnesses told the New York Times, and that he bore a ‘cruel and determined expression’ on his face”

Hehe. He’d have to be “cruel and determined” to fly into New Jersey on purpose. Who would do such a heinous thing?