Circle over Burlington, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Had to be huge maybe half the size of a football field, but circular, Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131943). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-12-28 → 2017-01-14
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January 1, 2019 · 10:54 PM · LIGHT
Burlington, NJ
I went out to smoke a cigarette in the right corner of our deck of the back yard, while I was standing there I seen and witnessed an orangey, yellowish light that seemed to be traveling from the northwestern to the Southeastern sky. I never in my life seen such a light quite as strikingly bright orange like it was, almost like it seemed to look much like a star burst kind of orange light. It's very difficult to explain how it actually looked like maybe, something like straight out of, "STARTREK". Very strange indeed and it made not one sound. I was expecting to hear something. You know, maybe a helicopter or some kind of airplane type of sound. Nope, nothing of the sort. Zilch, notta! And, it moved with such grace not to mention that it only seemed to be five to seven or so hundred feet up in that night sky. I thought it might have been a shooting star the way that it came into view but, no, just this magnificent bright orangey star burst kind of light that shimmered as if it we're a diamond. I'm sorry, I couldn't make out a body or fuselage. I felt that I had little or no time to go get my parents to witness the event but, my luck had changed when Mom came to the back door to throw out recycling. I called out to her, "Hurry up mom, and come to where I am so you can see what I am seeing." She replied, "I can't move to fast or I'll fall." But, she made it in time to see it traveling south bound out of sight. Wow! What a way to start off the New Year.
April 26, 2018 · 4:15 AM · CIRCLE
Burlington, NJ
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August 20, 2016 · 9:52 PM · LIGHT
Burlington, NJ
At approximitely 9:53pm, on the night of August 20, 2016, I went out back of my house to smoke a cigarette and looked up to the sky, as I always do. As I looked I saw a dim light move across the sky, and at first I thought it was a satellite which I have seen numerous times. As I continued to watch the object it suddenly became very bright as if a spotlight was turned on, only to dissapear into the sky as if it was never there. The total sighting took around 15 seconds, while the brightest part before it disappeared lasted about 5 seconds. The best description I can give on the location would be straight above the moon's current location and traveling in a horizontal direction. Possible Iridium satellite? PD
July 14, 2016 · 6:00 PM · CIGAR
Burlington, NJ
Slow moving cigar shaped and flying over our development. Saw it in the sky from my backyard, which is SW...the object was in the NE sky over the front of the house. By the time I ran through to the front of the house it was miles away and and much smaller in the sky. No way it could have gotten that far at the slow speed which was travelling. When it was closer, I thought "the plane" looked funny at that angle...like it had no wings. Then I noticed it was making a westerly turn and expected the wings to be revealed...but there were none. That's when I went to the front of the house to get a better view in case I lost sight of it behind our trees. (My house is only 30 feet long and I ran!!) At first I thought it disappeared, but my husband and I saw it really small and very far away...in the NE sky...still moving very slowly. Then it was gone. There were no lights and no vapor trails. Also, no sound!
September 19, 2009 · 7:50 PM · CONE
Burlington, NJ
7:50 PM, cone-shaped object, three spot-light type lights. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
August 28, 2001 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Burlington, NJ
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