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Light over Morristown, NJ

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UFO sighting on 7/12/01

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January 11, 2018 · 7:30 AM · TRIANGLE

Morristown, NJ

The event occurred traveling northbound on interstate 287 between Basking Ridge and Morristown. Visibility was good at street level but the sky was opaque with low lying cloud cover. At approximate 7:30am EST, a dark triangle moved through my field of vision on a westerly trajectory, through the clouds, disturbing the cloud around it as it traveled like a hand through smoke. I could not get a definitive view as it was using the cloud cover. All that was visible was its triangular shape and that it was black or very dark grey. It was silent, had no lights and was moving at a fast rate of speed. Viewing lasted for about 4 seconds. My best estimate is that the object was about a half a mile downrange and maybe 200-300 feet above the ground, Just high enough to use the cloud cover. Considering the distance and size of the object in my field of view my best guess is that it was about 100' from edge to edge. Morristown does have a small airport, but whatever this was, it just didn't look like a plane or anything you would normally see.

November 29, 2017 · 7:46 PM · DIAMOND

Morristown, NJ

2 Bright lights in the shape of diamonds, hovering about a mile in the air over route 287 South after the exit in Morristown. The diamond shape light was bright yellow to white. Around the shapes you can see halos around the edges horizontally from the center of the subjects. The lights descended down and disappeared into the horizon after reaching Easton Exit to Route 78. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

August 17, 2014 · 1:00 AM · TRIANGLE

Morristown, NJ

A few nights ago at around 1:00 am I was sitting on my porch, smoking a cigarette, before I went up to bed I noticed a circular craft flying over head very fast it had multiple light but was flying very high in the sky so I couldn't get a great look at it behind that craft was 2 fighter jet looking aircraft flying side by side as my attention was focused on the sky I turned my head to the right and spotted a very low flying boomerang shaped air craft it had 6 red lights and a few blue lights under the craft what was strange to me was how clear these lights were they also had no reflection it's hard to explain but the lights were projecting differently then anything I have ever seen there was absolutely no aura or haze around the lights at all the craft was only about 200 feet away and it didn't make a sound in fact when the aircraft passed everything seemed to go silent

October 24, 2013 · 7:30 AM · LIGHT