Triangle over Nortvale, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Looking east southeast is line of hills that separate me and Hudson River. I witnessed a white light rise up from behind the hill horizontal through the low lying cloud cover. This is just south of the Tappen Zee bridge. From a standing stop it jumped about two miles in the blink of an eye to the north. I leaned into the window to get a better look at were it had stopped. I watched it rotate on its axis then shoot off to the north at high speed. When it stopped I could see it had three dull white lights in the shape of a triangle. Since this is such a highly populated area I wondered if anyone else saw this?
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #115839). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-10-27 → 2014-11-13