Light over Asbury park, NJ

The report, as filed

We were on the beach alone watching the moon (sitting on the lifeguard stand) and we saw a fire ball of light appear. It was fiery orange, brilliant and bright. I saw it come from the corner of my eye, coming closer and from the southern horizon line - it glided quickly and swiftly as it came closer approaching our particular eye line of the horizon. We stared at it starting making jokes and then realized it could not be a drone or an aircraft due to the rate it moved and continued to loom out there in the distance. Just as it came into plain view, it instantly shot up into the sky and disappeared. I had my doubts, until a few a weeks later when I went back out there on my own to experience an entire different display of lights and movement - at or around the same time. Will document in next form.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #164946). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.