Sphere over Cranford, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
About 10:30pm last night, 8/8/2020, I was outside walking my dog when a light caught my attention, it was a bright red/orange solid orb in the sky, it went left extremely quick from the position it was in and then right to the same original location, it then came towards my location at en extreme rate of speed. I then noticed that 2 V-22 Osprey were following it, I've seen them multiple times since Bedminster Golf Club is just a few miles from here, in the video you can see the ospreys lights blinking showing the navigation lights while the orb I saw never blinked and when it passed me went straight up into the air extremely fast and was gone. Before it disappeared, a fighter jet of some kind went flying over extremely fast and loud as well seeming to be chasing whatever was in the sky.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #158353). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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