Disk over Oak Ridge, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
If appeared only in my smartphone screen, when I looked up there was nothing but when I looked down it was on my screen. I do have a picture and it's pretty clear. A "hat-shaped" object does, indeed, appear on one of the photos sent by the witness. We do not know what it is. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #116140). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
Ask for the records
What would the paper say?
For a dated, located U.S. sighting, FAA radar data and ATC communications are the records most likely to exist. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-12-18 → 2015-01-04
From the same sky