Probable conventional

Circle over North Arlington, NJ

A conventional explanation is favored by the record but was never formally confirmed.

The report, as filed

I have a home security camera in my window . I have a short video clip of a tricolored circle shaped object flying from behind the clouds and stopped in the middle of the sky then continues to fly again. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #179012). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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December 4, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIRCLE

North Arlington, NJ

Me and two of my friends were outside of my car in Rutherford, NJ. When my one friend said to look up and we all saw a straight line of unevenly spaced white, bright circles. It's unknown how many there were but from my video I could count at least 22 visible circles. they were moving in a completely straight line at a constant velocity and seemed very high up in the air. we watched it/ them cut across the sky for about a minute before it/ them just disappeared. We live in a very bright area where seeing stars is hard, these could not be confused with stars due to the fact that they were moving and could also not be confused for a plane, we see plenty of planes in our area and none have ever looked like this. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]

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