Unknown over Hawthorne, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My wife and I were sitting on my porch and I noticed what looked like a light in the distance. It was hovering and moving in different directions. its directional patterns changed quickly and drastically then stopped and hovered. it seemed to have disappeared then re appeared again and made a quick b line movement toward the horizon where it stopped, hovered, then came back towards us for a few seconds then zipped off to the horizon and it was gone.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #156203). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-04-30 → 2020-05-17
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