Disk over Pompton Lakes, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was driving in a car. I saw a saucer metal shaped object, a metal I've never seen before, hovering in the sky, above the falls. It se
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1997-05-23 → 1997-06-09
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October 23, 2021 · 8:28 PM · SPHERE
Pompton Lakes, NJ
As I walked out my front for to my car on the street out of the corner of my eye I saw a bright orange/amber light moving across the sky. It did not have hard edges so I believed it to be in the clouds. As someone who likes watching the ISS I stopped to watch it and quickly noted that it was 1) too big to be the ISS, 2) too orange to be the ISS, 3) moving too fast to be the ISS. As soon as the first object (that is, the first one I saw) moved out of sight behind my home I saw flickering behind the trees and a second object made its way from behind the trees into the clearing, loving in the same direction as the first, at the same speed, but seemingly farther away. This repeated several times and I saw 5 objects in total. I was unable to film the one of the objects as it was behind the trees but seemingly below the horizon. This object was not high enough to appear in the clearing. I did a quick Google and Twitter search and found Tweets and web posts from FOX23 NJ and PIX11 — both NYC-area news outlets. These posts were five days old (posted October 17, assumedly) and reported on a large cluster of similar objects over Paterson, NJ. There was video of the event.
August 13, 2020 · 5:00 PM · OVAL
Pompton Lakes, NJ
I was sitting on lower patio looking at trees in my yard when this football shaped object entered the yard to my right flying to my left in a u about 10 feet off the ground out the other side of the yard. It then reappeared over my pool about 40 feet off the ground stopped and remained still for a couple of seconds then out to the left again, still no sound. It was about 2.5 to 3 feet in length and about 1 foot in height in the middle, I couldn’t tell top from bottom, no lights no wings no tail, no markings and no sound. It’s color was light grayish blue like over cast sky. This wasn’t a drone, I have 2 DJI phantoms and the kids up the street have the Mavic type drone and you hear them before you see them. This thing was fast and Quiet.
April 1, 2020 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Pompton Lakes, NJ
A few weeks ago i got home from work around 9pm est and noticed that the stars were really bright and the sky was clear.i noticed an object that looked just like a distant star. I took a second look and realized that they were moving in a straight line across the sky. perfectly spaced and symmetrical. One after another.They all vanished at the same part in the sky. No flashing lights no sounds just a faint glow like a distant star. i thought it was a satellite but when i saw another coming from the same path i knew it was not. there were about 8-10 of these. i had enough time to run and get my wife/binoculars but the objects were so high up the binoculars did not help. 100% not a plane or any human made device considering how high up these were (not in our atmosphere high)
June 29, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Pompton Lakes, NJ
Venus and Jupiter in conjunction. PD
August 31, 2014 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Pompton Lakes, NJ
Our town had finished its Labor Day fireworks show, and we were just sitting on my lawn, talking. Suddenly we noticed through the trees behind my building, a red-orange light rise up, over the treeline, and hover. It hovered for close to 2 minutes. We speculated that it looked like the flames in a hot air balloon but it was 9 pm, it had been raining and thundering off and on all day, and fireworks had just ended about 15 minutes ago. I tried to record it on my cellphone but the light looks white or even yellow-ish on camera. As we're watching, the light suddenly makes a sharply-angled turn (almost like an L), and rapidly flies off and then suddenly just disappears. Seconds later, we see a second red-orange light rise up in the same place where the first one did, but this one did not hover. It made the same sharply-angled turn and also disappeared. Right before the second light disappeared, the third one rose--again from the same spot-- and made an ev! en sharper-angled turn and disappeared. The third light was faster. There was no sound, nothing else in the sky during this, although shortly after the third light disappeared, we did see an airplane because we compared it to what we had just seen. And though in my pictures and on my video, the light looks white or even yellow-ish, it was actually a vibrant, VERY bright red=orange. We wouldn't have noticed it and watched it otherwise.
December 16, 2003 · 5:15 PM · DISK
Pompton Lakes, NJ
saucer w/red and green blinking lights