can you help me identify this small aircraft?

Hello all, I decided to post this here..not sure if its supposed to go here but I am certain this wasn't a UFO because the propeller noise was loud and clear.

Anyway, around Easter over a very rich and wealthy part of Bedford NY, I went outside with a few family members and saw this amazing aircraft. 100% sure its not someones DJI drone or something. This was way bigger than any drone Ive seen. It could easily fit a person or two in it. I would say the span of the " wings" was around 20 ft I would say.

I snapped some photos because I never seen anything like it. My uncle said,"yah thats one of those planes the billionaires fly in"

I am intrigued and did some digging and think it was maybe one of those Cobalt luxury personal aircrafts maybe? any help would be great!

A rustom-1?

originally posted by: Awalltheone
I snapped some photos because I never seen anything like it.

Rutan Varieze

or Rutan Long-EZ

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Bitchin machine.

google canard wing aircraft and see if you can spot it. There are many different kinds, but that's basically what you have up there. Zaphod58 probably knows.

a reply to: Awalltheone

Long EZ.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Hey hey hey, it COULD be a Beechcraft Starship...

There has to be at least ONE still flying despite Raytheon's best efforts to pull an EV-1 with them, doesn't there?

Rutan as bitchin as it is
the airplane has a 1 in 8 chance of going splat
and you have a 15% chance of dying in said splat.

a reply to: UnderKingsPeak

I always though that he must have had some bitchin designs he sold to the government since his commercial stuff never did well. I wonder how many of those designs focused on space programs considering he has had his hand in the white world space program

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Awalltheone

Long EZ.

Except the OP image plane's dihedral is not the same as the Long EZ.

Maybe a variant?
or it could be an Airelle Aeronix.

Matches the slight dihedral of the OP's image

I'm starting to think one of the questions I asked was answered by smart asses. I need to dig up that thread. I saw a bizarre looking small plane fly overhead and when I looked up the answers from ATS, the best match was some crazy low production plane, like 15 built.

Now I think there was snickering.

My thread

I agree with Zaph. It is a Rutan Long EZ, IMO.

Hey Phage, I think you may like Burt Rutan! He has written several pieces on AGW. Google it and enjoy!