Unspecified over Lafayette, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At about 9PM last evening I was driving with my 18-year old son in rural Lafayette, NJ, when my son alerted me to a light anomaly that he was seeing in the sky: one large, round white light attached to a cluster of smaller, white lights via a long beam of oval, translucent light tapering at each end. None of the lights were moving. I could only see one, large round light. As we drove in a Southerly direction, toward home, the lights remained stationery and in view until they became obscured by mountains. He and I had been attending his High School sports awards ceremony. Earlier, at about 8:05 PM, I'd taken a photo of the restaurant where the ceremony was being held (which I'll be forwarding by email). When we looked at the photo we saw that, in actuality, there were two, not one, large, round bright lights (at upper right), and two clusters of smaller white lights. And as you will see in the photo, the clustered lights appear to be triangular in shape.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #141759). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-06-02 → 2018-06-19
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