Circle over Toms River, NJ
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The report, as filed
Bright light coming down at 45 degree angle northeast of Toms River NJ 10/14 @ 9:45 PM
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2012-10-11 → 2012-10-28
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February 16, 2023 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Toms River, NJ
At first I thought I was looking at a star (same size and white color as the other stars in the sky at that time), but then it started moving in a straight line. It wasn't a plane (only one light, and too small or far away to be one), so it had my curiosity. As I watched and it seemed to lose some brightness, all of a sudden it made a sharp left turn. Now I'm definitely interested. It now travelled on a straight line in its new direction. After watching for a few minutes, it seemed to get less and less bright, until I could see it no more. The entire time I viewed it was approximately ten minutes.
January 13, 2023 · 5:03 PM · CHEVRON
Toms River, NJ
I was looking at sky from car, I opened window stuck phone out to take sunset. In the photo appears two objects. I didn’t notice them when I took photo at first. But then when I zoomed in on photo & looked back in sky they were gone.
September 23, 2022 · 8:30 AM · DISK
Toms River, NJ
Driving a few blocks north of trs school and looked up and saw the two objects floating in the air in the plain clear sky.
May 30, 2022 · 12:58 AM · FIREBALL
Toms River, NJ
My partner and I walked out back of our house on Route 571 to check our camera footage we take of the foxes, opossums and other animals that come out at night. As we moved from the first camera to the second, I look up into the northeast sky behind our property and see what looks like a single fireball hovering a moment before slowly moving west (the same direction we were walking). The fire looked like it was swirling in like a clockwise rotation but it was difficult to tell. I only checked off the "lights on the object" box below only because the light from the fireball itself was all we could see. The aura was the sphere it seemed to make as the fire was moving. I vocalized and pointed at it to my partner to which she then noticed it as well. It must have been only for two or three minutes, but we both noted how there was no sound to it at all. We live by a four lane highway, so we are used to hearing noises of cars, but at this exact moment there was no other noise at all. The object did not move at a constant rate either. It seemed to move slow and slightly pick up speed but move slowly again. Finally, it continued northwest towards Jackson Township passed the tree line and was out of sight. The diagram attached shows the spots it sorta slowed down and when we first saw it to when we lost it. We never took our eyes off of it. Side note: Right before witnessing the craft we both heard a loud crashing sound in the development facing where the craft was. Probably unrelated.
January 15, 2022 · 2:45 AM · LIGHT
Toms River, NJ
When I viewed my ring video, I noticed something that looked like a fireball falling from the sky. As watched the video, I realized theat it was a very slow decent which took about 2 hours before it touched down behind my neighbors house. At the moment of it landing, a bright light lit up inside of their garage then it went out, but the light behind the house stayed on. About an hour later a small single light was seen passing behind one house to another.
October 19, 2021 · 3:11 AM · CIRCLE
Toms River, NJ
I'm a School Counselor in a public high school. I was driving on the NJ Garden State Parkway going south around 3:00PM. Around 3:10 I noticed a very bright object in the sky, it looked like descending shooting star or a meteor.. it was lingering in the sky but slowly descending. Soon after, I noticed two additional bright balls in the sky nearby. They were all near each other. I actually called the Brick, NJ police station at 3:13 PM to ask whether others were reporting three bright objects next to each other in the sky. The operator said that if it was on the Parkway it would State Police jurisdiction, however I was driving and was unable to look up the phone number. The bright balls hovered near each other and slowly moved in docent directions. I was able to follow two of them in the sky for about 20 minutes. I was able to take a few videos and photos of the objects.