Unknown over Jackson, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Amazingly bright white slow moving flashes. Some brighter than others. It circled the sky for about 10 min before it took off extremely fast.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #122590). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-10-02 → 2015-10-19
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January 5, 2016 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
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Went outside for cigg, looked into the night sky towards the south/southeast and could see a light that would flicker often. After about 20 seconds, light began to move south in bursts of speed for a second, then turn and head a different way, sometimes moving up and down. Only a white light in the sky, no ship or craft spotted. Watched for 2 hours. Was able to see it again the next night.
August 23, 2015 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
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I was sitting in my garage watching some tv, when my dad runs out of the house and yells for me to come out back. I ran out there, and there was a very bright, deep-orange ball in the sky. It would come over one of the tree-lines, then make its way to a spot on the other end of the sky, and then flicker out-anywhere from thirty seconds to twenty minutes later, the exact same thing would happen again. It'd appear in the same place, then the light would die in the exact same place. It was flying low, underneath the cloud cover. During this time, we went and grabbed our four neighbors across the street and eventually they all saw it. My boyfriend also came over and saw it happen twice. I know what a plane looks like, I know what a satellite looks like, and I know what I paper lantern looks like-it wasn't normal. Three years ago on Fourth of July, my dad, uncle, aunt, and cousin saw the exact same thing. Same lights, same origin, same endpoint, except there were only seven that time. As far as backrounds on the witnesses go, I'm seventeen now, my boyfriend is eighteen, my dad is 47, and my neighbors were 29, 31, and the other two in their late 50's.
June 25, 2015 · 9:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Jackson, NJ
I seen a big light and a little light with a big black void in the center just to the west of Venus and Jupiter then it rotated counter clockwise until it was one light then just blinked out 5 mins after i see low flying military air craft weird stuff also dropped a call on my phone which is why i was out side in the first place. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD