Unexplained

Light over Hackettstown, NJ

Investigated by a competent body and left unresolved. The rarest grade, and never awarded by us — only recorded.

The report, as filed

Hackettstown, New Jersey. 4 a.m. Witness: Mrs. Nina Cook, an experienced private pilot and wife of a Pan Am flight engineer. A large light, blinking at 10-15 times per minute, moved up and down along a mountain range.

Held as-reported from Project Blue Book, United States Air Force. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Routed to: National Archives and Records Administration · records window 1953-03-08 → 1953-03-25

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September 22, 2019 · 1:30 AM · CIRCLE

Hackettstown, NJ

So it passed by at about 22 degrees above horizon moving west to east no sound. Red ball no tail. Traveling in straight horizontal there was a plane traveling before it at a speed of 13 to 14 seconds, ufo was behind it traveled same space in 3 to 4 seconds

January 31, 2015 · 1:42 AM · CIRCLE

Hackettstown, NJ

I was looking out my window because I noticed the weather was strange with high winds. Saw a circular shaped object above treeline with 3 white rotating lights facing me then just disappeared. Saw several other strange lights darting at a high rate of speed over the mountain.

December 25, 2013 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT