Unknown over Rio grande, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was about 4:45 am when I saw this object with two white lights just staying perfectly still in the sky above the bay around 2500 feet above sea level. Could not make out the shape, i continued to watch it for about 30 minutes not moving just hovering. Then about 5:30 am when it started to get light out, the object began horizontally ascending away from its point of origin into the sky and disappeared. All this happened within 5 to 10 seconds, there were no planes in the area. The area is not a commercial or small plane fly zone.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170280). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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