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New Jersey UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 2,876 UFO sighting reports in New Jersey to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (495 reports, 17.21% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (367 reports, 12.76% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (580 reports, 20.17% of total).
- 07/15/01 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (20 reports, 0.70% of total).
- 2019 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (194 reports, 6.75% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (1,265 reports, 43.98% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in New Jersey
These New Jersey UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Looking west saw strange light that was stationary. It split into two . Visibility was clear.
At the sane time saw two aircraft. Saw light that split into two separate lights than converged back to one light Stationary but rotated. West of my vantage point.
Within a minute -saw two 2 aircraft. One headed west the other north. Faster than civilian prop driven aircraft.
7:45 pm Sunday. Clear skies night.
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Was covered in the shroud of fog- mist. Then a umbrella like fog mist was dropped White fog, mist.,,, an umbrella like fog emitted.
Very high up and appeared to have a secondary star in tow.
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I saw a bright light sloop across the sky I saw a circlular light that was very bright and not anywhere near airplanes sloop down and then it disappeared.
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Three flying objects near moon, flying in erratic patterns, very far from earth. Unable to tell shape of objects. Reflective of setting sunlight, otherwise extremely difficult to see when not reflecting light.
No formal formation of flight pattern nor relation to each other. Disappeared after approximately 8 minutes.
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Witnessed when looking outside from room Saw brilliant light to the eye light seperated into multiple rays and on camera moving energy circular in shape . after watching it my leg immediately started hurting.
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Circular reddish object seen in the sky at around 12.20 AM on 1/1/2024 It was circular in shape and reddish in color. Object moved across the sky and disappeared.
It moved quite fast and I could get it on film for 28 seconds.
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3 glowing objects in eastern sky Two stationary white light. One turned red headed north. Third light appears.
Turns red heads north. Original stayed white but blinked out. No noise.
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When taking a picture of the moon I noticed a dark line in the sky. I snapped another pic and saw a red light at the end of the line See above. After that I was video taping the sky and saw 3 different lights.
When I went to review the video it disappeared.
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Silver egg-shaped reflective object heading south at dusk at an usually slow speed for its altitude At just after 4:00 on Sunday 11/19/23, I looked up because I heard a helicopter hovering around and something caught my eye at a much higher altitude beyond the helicopter. I saw a small silver metallic object moving in a southerly direction. It was hard to track with the naked eye due to the dusk lighting, it was shimmering inconsistently, and it appeared to be reflecting the sunlight much brighter than I have seen from any other object.
I pulled out my iPhone, started a video, and pointed it in the direction of the object on full zoom not knowing if it could pick up the object. When replaying the video, I was surprised to see it showed up exactly how I saw it with my eyes. I held the phone as steady as I could (within 1/8”) and I do not have shaky hands.
For the altitude of the object, it appeared to be moving unusually slow compared to the speed a plane would be traveling at that same altitude. I live in a rural area between Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and McGuire AFB where most plane traffic is at a visible altitude and traveling in a consistent flight path. This object was traveling from the northwest to southeast, which does not fit any air traffic I have seen before.
It was also odd that the helicopter I witnessed at the lower altitude seemed to be hanging around with no defined flight path, unlike the Coast Guard, State Police, or news helicopters that fly straight over just west of my location. I am an engineer and I work for a defense contractor at a Navy test facility. I always look to the sky when I hear or see an aircraft and I have never seen anything like this before.
I would like to submit an FOIA request for radar data for that day/time to see if there is any object appearing in that flight path at the time I observed.
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It looked like it was landing We saw this Glass looking sliding UFO aircraft.
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A slow moving point of light, traveling west on clear conditions at high altitude. My mother and I woke up at 6:30 AM and stepped outside. I looked up at the sky to get an idea of the weather.
It was perfectly clear and the sun was just barely risen. To the north travelling westward I noticed a small point of light moving too slowly to be a plane and also either too high or too small. I pointed it out to my mother and she noted that also there was no sound.
I checked air traffic maps, satellite trackers, and even the position of the International Space Station. None were nearby at the time of sighting.
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Seeming shapeshifter and blinking light moving around randomly in localized area of space My attention was caught by a blinking light that presents on the left, top portion of my (attached) video. The light was blinking but also bouncing around in space in a localized area in about one second intervals and with no seeming pattern or succession. Then a lower second UAP appeared on the bottom right hand side of the video and it looked like it had "white exhaust" intermittently spewing from it, which did not appear to be completely attached to the UAP.
Then, when I slowed down my video and took screenshots of different frames of the video, it looks like this (bottom) UAP was rotating in space doing multiple somersaults causing the UAP to "shapeshift". This UAP first ascended slowly and then eventually swooped up higher into the sky more suddenly like it had gained momentum. I took zoomed in photos of some frames in the video that show more detail.
It looks look "a mothership" spawning UAP's. It looked like the UAP would split into two or something would spawn from it which started out as a single light being spawned and later turned into two lights. If you have access to technology where you can view the video slower frame by frame it might show more related detail.
Due to the quantity limitation of submitted pictures, I wasn't able to post a picture where it actually looks like the UAP turns into a pair of lit up "skis" that are two straight lines that start ascending higher, the UAP turns into a ballish shape and then it turns into the pair of "skis" again as it swoops up seemingly toward the blinking light. Sidenote, if you ever need a remote employee there I would love to be considered! One UAP was flashing and moving around in a haphazard pattern while another was moving slower then sped up at end of video. The solid light on right lower part of video moved left to right in an ascending path with rapid upturning at the end of the video.
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Object was briefly stationary, before traveling in an apparent fish hook shape. Then vanished. Had arrived outside my home at roughly 8:26 or 8:27pm on November the 5th, 2023.
I had parked my car in the street, with the driver's side facing South. I had gathered my things and stepped outside my vehicle. When I closed the door, I had been facing south.
A single, large orb of white light was spotted in the Southeast, above a neighbor's house. It appeared to be stationary. The orb then began to travel east, accelerating as it did.
The object then made a fish hook maneuver down and then towards the West before vanishing from sight. There were no other witnesses present, and the entire event lasted less than a minute in length. Other than the sight of the object and the fish hook path it took, nothing else was deemed unusual.
Observer is a white male, in his early 30s. Does not have superstitious or supernatural proclivities. Has observed meteorological phenomenon in area before; including comets, meteor showers, and a shooting star.
There are also several airports in the region, as well an FAA tech center. There is also occasional air traffic from Coast Guard aircraft.
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Two alternating red blinking lines, each in shape of short line segment, moved together, in the same direction as their line I was on my way to my local ATM (I have receipt 8:51pm) so it must have been no more than 10 minutes before that, driving north on Homestead Drive in Homestead Adult Community in Columbus, NJ, I had just turned the slight left-turning curve about 10 meters north of Chestnut Hill Lane, when I saw very low in the sky, just above the treetops above the houses at the intersection of either Deep Hollow and Homestead Drive or Hill Top Lane and Homestead Drive, two alternating flashing red lights. They alternated about twice per second. The lights looked like short line segments.
The lights looked about the same distance apart as the width of Homestead Drive. It was absolutely pitch black. I could see nothing else in the sky: I could not see any object to which they were attached.
The two alternating red lights moved together as if they were part of the same rigid structure in the same direction, eastward and out of sight, as the line connecting the lights. I had all the windows of my car rolled up, because it was quite cold. So, I heard nothing.
They moved off eastward over Homestead Drive and somehow out of view. The entire event lasted about ten seconds. No time for me to take my cellphone out and snap a photo.
While I saw this, my feeling was that this was a police helicopter of some type, or some kind of police or military craft, because the lights were red, and because we have had many airplanes and helicopters from McGuire AFB fly over Homestead in broad daylight, since 1993. I felt it was strange, because of how low it was, but not strange enough to call it alien. It definitely WAS an unidentified flying object: a UFO, as I could not identify it.
The fact that these two lights did not make a noise did not impress me. I do not remember them making a sound. But, I would really need to do an independent experiment to compare to the sounds made by known McGuire flyovers.
There was some car ahead of me, about 50 meters, on Homestead Drive, traveling in the same direction I was. I was not able to read their license plate. They would have certainly been able to see this thing, too.
On Monday, November 6, I posted a note in our clubhouse asking for whomever this driver was, who was out at this same time and location, to contact me. After I got home from the ATM, I called the guardhouse/frontgate to ask if they these lights. The man on duty told me he saw nothing.
This is an addendum to previous report id=179287. On Christmas Day 2023, I unexpectedly received a text from somebody who saw my notice requesting any other witnesses come forward that night and contact me if they saw the same alternating flashing red lights. I assume they refer to the notice I physically posted on the bulletin board in our clubhouse, as that was the only notice I posted.
I have withheld this witnesses name and phone #. However, they attached a photo they took. Just a single red light, but that matches what I saw.
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Shiny silver sphere reflecting the setting sun moved south away from my viewpoint First noticed in the sky as it was shiny and not moving. No chemtrails like 3 other high altitude airplanes in the sky at the time. Mentioned to other parents.
Took 3 pictures roughly 30 seconds apart until it disappeared from view keeping the same plane in view for correlation. Best view is in first picture where the shape can be discerned well.
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We have been seeing a white orb along the orbit of Venus nearly all day and night. We have been seeing a white dot kn the sky approximately at sunrise everyday, whenever it is dark or dim out. It is stationary, doesn’t twinkle or flicker, and is in the exact same spot everyday.
A thin shell also appears on the ”corona” of the object. On November 14th and 4th, the object moved southeast, but not too much.
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The object was picked up on my ring. Which I thought odd and assumed it was possibly someone's drone until I saw the duration. It was recorded on a ring, flying low.
It was more of a triangular shape. The object moved at reasonable rate so I thought until I saw the duration of time that passed. I also have screen shots.
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Two orbs spinning clockwise parallel from each other stop when horizontal spread out farther and disappear While driving home from work I saw two vertically parallel lights spin clockwise until they were horizontal with each other, I would describe their speed as not particularly fast but confident. Afterwards they began moving away from each other but still parallel, I didn’t get to see what happened after as I was driving on the parkway but they stayed spread out for a while and then disappeared. I first thought it was a turbine spinning but we don’t have anything like that around here.
Maybe they were drones but the distance they seemed to cross before they disappeared was pretty far. This is the first and only time I’ve seen something like this. I wrote this based on a statement I had written to a friend the night it happened, I would have reported sooner had I known about your website.
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orange ring blinking, does loop de loop then disappears 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.
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noted orbs in and out of the clouds as if looking for something and then going into a pattern of 4 that kept changing direction the orbs initially were going in and out of the clouds in no pattern. Then they became 4 distinct orbs going out in different directions and varying distances then coming together in the center. It was over an area where there is only residential homes.
It was filmed from my 2nd story home window. which is on a high elevation. The sky was clear and a few striated clouds.
I could not see any source or beams of light.
New Jersey UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 495 reported sightings | 17.21% of all reports |
Circle | 350 reported sightings | 12.17% of all reports |
Triangle | 240 reported sightings | 8.34% of all reports |
Disk | 210 reported sightings | 7.30% of all reports |
Other | 200 reported sightings | 6.95% of all reports |
Fireball | 198 reported sightings | 6.88% of all reports |
Unknown | 194 reported sightings | 6.75% of all reports |
Sphere | 189 reported sightings | 6.57% of all reports |
Oval | 153 reported sightings | 5.32% of all reports |
Formation | 80 reported sightings | 2.78% of all reports |
Cigar | 68 reported sightings | 2.36% of all reports |
Changing | 64 reported sightings | 2.23% of all reports |
Rectangle | 54 reported sightings | 1.88% of all reports |
Flash | 52 reported sightings | 1.81% of all reports |
Diamond | 51 reported sightings | 1.77% of all reports |
Cylinder | 38 reported sightings | 1.32% of all reports |
Egg | 29 reported sightings | 1.01% of all reports |
Chevron | 24 reported sightings | 0.83% of all reports |
Teardrop | 20 reported sightings | 0.70% of all reports |
Cone | 18 reported sightings | 0.63% of all reports |
Orb | 13 reported sightings | 0.45% of all reports |
Cross | 10 reported sightings | 0.35% of all reports |
Star | 4 reported sightings | 0.14% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 367 reported sightings | 12.76% of all reports |
August | 322 reported sightings | 11.20% of all reports |
September | 319 reported sightings | 11.09% of all reports |
June | 289 reported sightings | 10.05% of all reports |
November | 229 reported sightings | 7.96% of all reports |
October | 227 reported sightings | 7.89% of all reports |
May | 189 reported sightings | 6.57% of all reports |
January | 188 reported sightings | 6.54% of all reports |
March | 181 reported sightings | 6.29% of all reports |
April | 176 reported sightings | 6.12% of all reports |
December | 173 reported sightings | 6.02% of all reports |
February | 154 reported sightings | 5.35% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 580 reported sightings | 20.17% of all reports |
Sunday | 481 reported sightings | 16.72% of all reports |
Friday | 378 reported sightings | 13.14% of all reports |
Thursday | 374 reported sightings | 13.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 339 reported sightings | 11.79% of all reports |
Monday | 334 reported sightings | 11.61% of all reports |
Wednesday | 328 reported sightings | 11.40% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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07/15/01 | 20 reported sightings | 0.70% of all reports |
09/19/09 | 16 reported sightings | 0.56% of all reports |
09/24/22 | 12 reported sightings | 0.42% of all reports |
07/04/15 | 7 reported sightings | 0.24% of all reports |
08/08/20 | 6 reported sightings | 0.21% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1,265 reported sightings | 43.98% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 540 reported sightings | 18.78% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 444 reported sightings | 15.44% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 205 reported sightings | 7.13% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 199 reported sightings | 6.92% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 161 reported sightings | 5.60% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in New Jersey
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in New Jersey.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in New Jersey
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in New Jersey