Circle over manchester, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Left my house and noticed Venus or whatever in the sky and stopped to admire what I thought was also Mars and got in my car. Realized that the orange thing was too big to be mars and kept staring as I was leaving neighborhood, which is when it started blinking briefly. I stopped my car at the exit of the neighborhood and noticed it was dark in the middle, as opposed to a solid orange circle. The orange ring did a loop and slowly moved southeast before disappearing. Forgive me if this is too hard to believe but even the deer were fixated on the orange ring.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #179148). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-10-25 → 2023-11-11