Light over Laurence Harbor, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I pointed out a bright star to my boyfriend and he was trying to explain to me that it was an airplane because it started to move. I then agreed but noticed it stopped moving. When it moved, it moved diagonally and quickly. When it stopped it just hovered. After about 7 minutes I watched it shoot down a red blinking light. I quickly notified my boyfriend and he saw it too. He called his father to the room and he saw it too. Almost immediately after we heard and saw 2 planes head into the ssme direction the red lights went to. After the red light reached the water it hovered for about a minute and disappeared. The original white light (that was mistaken for a star/airplane) began to fade away.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #150481). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-11-05 → 2019-11-22
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