As reported

Sphere over Bloomfield, NJ

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

I saw at first one at a time, then occasionally a few closer together, orange spheres that were very bright and only semi-flickering moving slowly across the night sky from west to east, towards New York City. They moved from different heights but approximately all the same speed. However, they seemed to originate at a low point and progress upward and then level out a bit in the sky as they moved across. I watch the stars in the night sky daily and have never seen anything even close to like this before. I feared they were some type of missile with all the terrorism lately. The most recent New York report (I believe it was 6/22) sounded a lot like what I saw. They appeared silent.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #128143). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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December 31, 2019 · 3:26 PM · OVAL

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https://youtu.be/p1A1_Cnnw60 I am an experiencer. I've had several other sightings which I did not report. I'm reporting this sighting because of the video. There is a lot of air traffic in the area which I have a lifetime of familiarity with and I know this was not traditional aircraft.

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