Disk over Garfield, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Was waking my dog, on the phone with my mother and as I look up to admire the sky I see a hyper white disk go into warp speed so fast it left a light trail from dipping down some and launching upwards. (No sound) I’ve seen meteorites and shooting stars before at high altitudes, they almost stain the sky at that distance. This object was about 6 stories high over the neighborhood and vanished in about 5 seconds as it left a trail the soon vanished after it. No smoke of exhaust, and I could count over 10 planes in the sky leaving and landing from LGA & Teterboro Airport slow as snails.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174288). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-01-30 → 2023-02-16
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