As reported

Cone over Alpine, NJ

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The report, as filed

I saw a shape that looked like a large upside down silver teepee descending quickly in-between the trees and the Hudson River. I only spotted it for a couple of seconds. I couldn't see it any longer when it went down past the trees off the Palisades Parkway.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177428). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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July 14, 2019 · 9:20 PM · CIRCLE

Alpine, NJ

The road was a bit hilly and I was driving upward close to the intersection on 9W right before stopping at a red light, when all of a sudden, an illuminating bright light sped quickly straight across right before the intersection across my path and stopped abruptly a few yards behind a tree on the right corner of the intersection. Then surprisingly, a second later, another bright, illuminating light sped quickly just as the first light and stopped right before the first bright light stood. As soon as the second light met up with the first light, they both zoomed straight out to the right and quickly disappeared. These bright illumination lights happened in a matter of 2-3 seconds only. That’s when I realized that I just encountered a mysterious sighting that happened in a split second.