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Fireball over Hackensack, NJ

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Glowing blue light vanishes in seconds.

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May 29, 2022 · 3:13 PM · CHANGING

Hackensack, NJ

On the Sunday before Memorial Day, my father and aunt were outside in his yard when they heard a military jet flying over low going to land most likely at Teterboro Airport. He ran to the front yard and pointed his iPhone camera up to get a quick video not paying much attention. After looking back at the video I noticed two white objects flying around the clouds behind the jet. One can be seen seeming to come from a distance to stop in between a group of clouds in front of the nose of the jet before flying to the left back behind the clouds. Another object seems to swoop down from the top left of the screen through or behind the contrails left behind from another plane. That object appeared to slow down and hover in between the military jet and another plane far in the distance. Both objects appeared white and round shaped but made sporadic movements that augmented their shape (more apparent when slowing the video down and zooming in) they almost appear to jump from spot to spot, or leap around the sky. They also have almost transparent like qualities. To my eye these don’t appear to be artifacts close to the lens, but have a sense of depth created by the clouds, contrails, sunlight, and planes in sky. I also became suspicious of the objects due to the recently disclosed UAP reports coming to light from Navy pilots.

November 1, 2016 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT