Light over Stockton, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At first I assumed it was a high flying plane that was reflecting sunlight. I thought it was odd but didn't think much of it really. After a few minutes I looked up again, not expecting to still see it there, but it was, and seemed like it had barely moved at all. So at that point I started really paying attention to it and noticed it was slowly getting brighter then dimmer and even disappearing from sight completely sometimes. Over the next hour or so it very slowly moved across the sky from the northeast toward the south, never actually reaching the horizon. The kids eventually got bored at the playground, so we moved on to go walk across the foot bridge, and by the time we made it through the trees and into clear skyline, again, I couldn't relocate it. I did attempt to take a few pictures with my iPhone, because it is all I had, but nothing can be seen in the photos.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #136522). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-09-28 → 2017-10-15
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