Disk over Mansfield Township, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On break at work. Looked up and saw a cool cloud so I took a pic. Then I noticed a black saucer like cloud in a clear blue sky so i took a pic. Then the black fuzzy cloud seemed to quickly away. But it left a hole in the cloud it faded into.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #166022). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-08-20 → 2021-09-06