Circle over North Arlington, NJ
Resolved to a known cause by an investigating body, with the identification on the record.
The report, as filed
Me and two of my friends were outside of my car in Rutherford, NJ. When my one friend said to look up and we all saw a straight line of unevenly spaced white, bright circles. It's unknown how many there were but from my video I could count at least 22 visible circles. they were moving in a completely straight line at a constant velocity and seemed very high up in the air. we watched it/ them cut across the sky for about a minute before it/ them just disappeared. We live in a very bright area where seeing stars is hard, these could not be confused with stars due to the fact that they were moving and could also not be confused for a plane, we see plenty of planes in our area and none have ever looked like this. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #165729). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-12-01 → 2021-12-18
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