Light over Greenwood Lake, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We had a fire on the beach of Greenwood Lake on the border of New York State and New Jersey. We saw three bright blue lights flying in formation resembling a triangle with one light trailing behind the group. The three lights that were in formation realigned themselves as a straight line with one light circling another. The trailing light took off in a different direction then later continued to follow the other three lights. The lights were moving at a high rate of speed and traveling at an altitude greater than 5000 feet (estimate).
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #129837). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-08-31 → 2016-09-17