Light over National Park, NJ
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The report, as filed
I went outside to my backyard to relieve myself because my family member at the time was using the bathroom, usually that’s what I do if I have to go bad. The way my backyard is setup is where it is covered but there’s and exit to the street so as I was looking up to the sky an object caught my eye. It was somewhat bright and circular. It was moving fast but it didn’t seem to be an airplane because of its speed and it couldn’t have been a drone because it was too bright and it most likely would have been out of distance from a drone operator. My hometown National Park is a geographically set up different then other towns, there’s an airport just right across the river. So close if your talking out in the streeet you have to pause your conversation until the plane goes past, especially at the local Park, the “ ACA “ building. So when you live near a town with a lot of aircraft flying above you get to know the sounds and sights QUITE often. I could have been mistaken for something else but I don’t think so, the odds are likely but something just stuck out tonight. I still would like to report it because I’ve heard that north jersey has heavy UFO sightings, could be mistaken be use I heard it from a comedian who is a native Joey Diaz. Could be wrong but if that is true, it was the right thing to have this reported.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174189). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-01-26 → 2023-02-12
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