Circle over Wayne, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My wife and I were driving westbound along Route 80 in Wayne, NJ just after midnight on Saturday, February 19, 2022. Above us, traveling in the same direction but remarkably faster was a circular object. This object had one bright red light at its center surrounded by a bright white ring of light. The object flew overhead quickly before stopping on a dime mid-air. The object then shot straight up out of sight even faster than it had been traveling parallel to the ground. My wife and I were both taken aback as we have never seen anything like this. I consider myself pretty open-minded but my wife is a huge skeptic and even she feels like what we saw was not any kind of technology known to the general public.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #166921). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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