Cigar over Nutley, NJ
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The report, as filed
As I was viewing the planet Jupiter at night with a high-power binocular (25x100), a bright cigar-shaped object shot upwards very quickly to the left of Jupiter. Jupiter was at about 45 degrees above the horizon at the moment it happened. I assume that the unidentified object was going up into space. The binocular was on a steady tripod that my husband had set up.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #158692). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-08-05 → 2020-08-22
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