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New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1993

This page aggregates and analyzes all UFO sighting reports made in New Jersey during 1993.

How many New Jersey UFO sightings were there in 1993?

  • There were 4 officially reported UFO sightings in New Jersey in 1993.
  • In 1993, New Jersey ranked #29 on the list of states with the most UFO sightings for that year.
  • Adjusted for population size, New Jersey ranks #46 in the list of states with the most reported UFO sightings in 1993, with an average of 0.05 reports per 100,000 residents.

New Jersey Cities with the most UFO Sightings in 1993

Rank City Number of Reports
1 New Egypt, NJ 2 UFO Reports
2 Clifton, NJ 1 UFO Reports
3 Randolph, NJ 1 UFO Reports

New Jersey UFO Sightings Analysis

We analyzed all 4 UFO sighting reports in New Jersey from 1993 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:

New Jersey UFO Sighting Reports in 1993

This is a sampling of 20 New Jersey UFO reports from 1993, 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).

Clifton, NJ

Full Report Text:

Dark winter night, while smoking out on back porch, huge white circle of light sat above the house 12/1993 – I was visiting my fiancé’s parents in Clifton, NJ, and was smoking on the back porch. I looked up and suddenly saw a large circle of white lights…stationary above the house at a low altitude…approximately 5 thousand ft… just hovering there, silently. I tried to call others out to see it, but they made jokes and never came outside.

It remained there for about 5 minutes, then disappeared from my view in a split second. Lights out.

12/01/93 8:30 PM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: 6 minutes

Report

New Egypt, NJ

Full Report Text:

UFO w/ green lights seen twice in NJ at night in N.J. on 539 Here is my report on my sightings of a ufo I saw at night when I was driving home, and again I had a sighting of the same object two years later when I was driving to a friends house at night.

This report is being told in all honesty, and even though these two events happened long ago, they have stuck fresh in mind to this day. Here is the report I had given to another organization not too long ago. I was asked in the reporting form to describe the lights if I had seen any, and that is where I started my report at: "There were many round lights and they were all green.

They were not blinding and could make out the pattern of the lights as well as the shapes of the lights very well. Object seemed to be round by the way the lights were set up. Green lights were round in shape and the center row seemed to go around the object.

Also remember there were more or just one more light near the top of the center row and one near the bottom of the center row of lights." The next question in the report form I was filling out, asked to give as much information about the sighting as possible: "It was a close sighting and lights were seen well. Object was just below the tops of the trees and behind one set of tree line.

I was driving home on a road at night where there are at times very little traffic, sometimes no traffic late at night. A road where there are woods on both sides (Alot pine trees) and not many homes built. I think these woods that go along this long stretch of road (which is Rt.

539) are reserved by the McGuire Air Force Base, since they usually have trucks (hummers, etc) travel to and from these dirt roads that come off of this particular road. It was around the time of 1:30 to 2:15 a.m.

, was so long ago, do not remember the exact time. I was traveling north on Rt. 539.

As I came around one bend I noticed a green light to the left side of the road in the woods near the tops of the trees that were closest to the road, up ahead of me. When I got closer, I slowed down to a crawl, while looking upwards towards the top of the tree line, I eventually stopped the car and rolled down the window. I stared at it in puzzlement.

I could see the tree branches silhouetted in front of the many green lights of the round object. This is where the most shock kicked in. After I had stopped the car and was looking at it, I started to realize that this object was actually getting lower and was 'very slowly' moving downwards behind the set of trees.

I was directly across from the object that was lowering from behind the set of trees. Panic set in and I said to myself **** ****!! Please excuse the language, but it could not be helped. And I slammed my foot onto the gas pedal to leave as quick as possible, I could not drive well, my arms and whole body were shaking.

As I was making my way down the road away from where the object was, I looked in my drivers side door mirror, and I saw car headlights coming from around the bend, just before where I was stopped at, and also saw that the object with green lights was no longer there. I did not see the lights any where. Sorry this is so long.

And I kept this and another event to myself for so long because I did not know there were so many others seeing u.f.o's until years later when I started to read up about so many other events that others had witnessed.

Never knew of all of the ufo sightings by others until I got a computer and was able to read up on sightings information. This is being told in absolute truth. (I did some searching on the about.

com website on ufo sightings for in my state, and found a report posted by another lady who seemed to have seen the same object with all green lights at night in 1996.) 2 years later on another night, the same 'exact' object with green lights appeared again in June. In the same area but not in the exact spot, maybe 1 mile further from the first time.

This time I was going to head on over to a friends house, I took the same road but heading north this time on rt. 539, but for some reason I decided that maybe I'd go visit my friend another time, and decided to turn off onto another back road to 'turn around'. Well this weird feeling came over me, I don't know why, (I'm in amazement as I write this still now.

) As I was slowing down on this other road to get ready to make my u-turn which has no street lights on it, I looked into my passengers side door mirror (I usually had this mirror turned up a little to keep any car's headlights that were behind me from shining into my eyes), I almost had me heart failure, I caught a glimps of green lights, this time higher in the night sky and the moon was almost full this night. I slowed down on the road and turned my head back to quickly look through the back window of the truck I was driving and was able to see this object better. The object was again stationary in one spot maybe 2 tree lengths up above the tree line.

This object and the moon were not that far apart, but also not real close to each other, I remember seeing the moon to the right as I was looking above the trees and the object with green lights farther to the left. Once again, I was the only one on these roads at the time. This time I was thinking "Oh my God, Oh my God, I don't believe this!" and "It's back again!!", and of course panic set in again, and I quickly pulled my vehicle over to the side of the road to make a quick u-turn to go back to the road I had come off of.

Which means I was turning around to head some what towards the object, because it was the only way I knew of to get back home. Again, I had slammed on the gas pedal after I made the sharp u-turn and was driving quickly. After I made the u-turn in panic, I got myself to look up (to the left side now, above the trees), and saw no green object, only saw the moon.

A second after looking again and not seeing the object I saw car headlights up ahead coming from the road I was heading back to get onto. I made it back home and said to myself, 'why when I'm on that road and that thing has to show up are there no other cars around, but when another car was coming around the object would disappear or it's lights would go out.' I did'nt take that road again for a long time, I changed my route.

I would also like to ad, that both times that the object was seen, it was motionless in the sky, completely still, except for the first time where it seemed to start lowering after it was remaining still. There also was no sound whats so ever. Today I am now a professional photographer, I do alot of nature photography, but I wish I was then and wish I had a camera on me during these two events.

I would prefer being contacted through email if questions and a follow up were needed, but would consider being contacted by phone as well, even though I would'nt have an easy time at all discussing these two events.

07/10/93 2:15 AM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: 45 sec. - 1 min.

Report

New Egypt, NJ

Full Report Text:

UFO w/ green lights seen just above tree tops at night in or near New Egypt, N.J. Describe the lights: Could only see the lights.

This was seen at night around the time of 1:30 - 2:15 a.m. There were many round lights and they were all green.

Not blinding and could make out the pattern of the lights as well as the shapes of the lights very well. Object seemed to be round by the way the lights were set up. Green lights were round in shape and the center rows seemed to go around the object.

Also remember there was more or just one more light near the top of the center row and one at the bottom of the center row of lights. A very close sighting and lights were seen clearly. Object was just below tops of trees and behind one set of tree line.

I was driving home on a road at night where there are at times very little to no traffic. A road where there are woods on both sides and not many homes built. I think these woods that go along this long stretch of road (I think which is 538 or 539) are reserved by the McGuire Air Force Base, since they occasionaly have trucks travel to and from these dirt roads that come off of this particular road.

It was around the time of 1:30 to 2:15 a.m., was so long ago, do not remember the exact time.

As I came around one bend I noticed a green light to the left side of the road in the woods near the tops of the trees that were closest to the road, up ahead of me. I started thinking to myself as I was driving closer "who would be playing with something this late at night like that" or "when did this light source get built and put up here". When I got closer, I slowed down to a crawl, while looking upwards towards the top of the tree line, I eventually stopped the car and rolled down the window.

I stared at it in puzzlement. I could see the tree branches silhouetted in front of the many green lights of the round object. This is where the most shock kicked in.

After I had stopped and was looking at it. I just started to realize that something was'nt right and started to realize that this object was actually getting lower and was 'very' slowly moving downwards behind the set of trees. I was directly across from the object that was lowering from behind the set of trees.

There was 'no' sound that could be heard from the object, and I was pretty close to the object. Panic set in and I said a few words out loud, which I won't write here. And I slammed my foot onto the gas pedal to leave as quick as possible, I could not drive well, my arms and whole body was shaking.

As I was making my way down the road away from where the object was, I looked in my drivers side door mirror, and I saw car headlights coming from around the bend, just before where I was stopped at, and also saw that the object with green lights was no longer there. I did not see the lights any where. Sorry this is so long.

And I kept this and another event to myself because I did not know there were so many others seeing u.f.o's until years later when I started to read up about so many other events that others had witnessed.

Never knew of it much until I got a computer and was able to read up on information. I would also like to add that I am in excellent mental health, high IQ, never had done drugs, nor alcohol, nor have ever had hallucinations, and I was not tired that night. This is being told in absolute truth.

And would be nice to know if any others had spotted this green lit up object in that area as well. 2 years later on another night, the same 'exact' object with green lights appeared again I think in June. In the same area but not in the exact spot, maybe 1 mile further from the first time.

This time I was going to head on over to a friends house, I took the same road, but for some reason while driving there I decided that maybe I'd go visit my friend another time, and decided to turn off onto another back road to turn around. Well this weird feeling came over me, I don't know why, (I'm in amazement as I write this still now.) As I was slowing down on this other road which has no street lights on it, I looked into my passengers side door mirror, I almost had me heart failure, I caught a glimps of green lights this time much higher in the night sky and the moon was almost fool this night.

The object was again stationary in one spot maybe 2 tree lengths up above the tree line. This object and the moon were not that far apart, I remember seeing the moon to the right as I was looking above the trees and the green lit up object farther to the left. Once again, I was the only one on these two roads at the time.

This time I was thinking "Oh my God, Oh my God, I don't believe this" and "It's back again", with some curse words, and of course panic set in again, and I quickly pulled my vehicle over to the side of the road to make a quick u-turn to go back to the road I had come off of. Which means I was turning around to head some what towards the object, because it was the only way I knew of to get back home. Again, I had slammed on the gas after I made the sharp u-turn and was driving quickly.

After I made the u-turn in panic, I got myself to look up (to the left side now, above the trees), and saw no green object, only saw the moon. A second after looking again and not seeing the object I saw car headlights up ahead coming from the road I was heading back to get onto. I made it back home, and said to myself, why when I'm on that road and that thing has to show up are there no other cars around, but when ! another car was coming around the object would disappear or it's lights would go out.

I did'nt take that road again for a long time, I changed my route. These days, I am now a professional photographer, but I wish I was then and wish I had a camera on me. I am a 29 Yr.

old female. If there are any questions, I can be contacted through email.

07/10/93 2:00 AM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: Approx. 4 minutes

Report

Randolph, NJ

Full Report Text:

A STRANGE DARK BLUE HEAVY DENCE FLASH, my lungs felt very warm and I became light headed and my face was flush A STRANGE DARK BLUE HEAVY DENCE FLASH!!!!!! I was trying to make extra money on one snowy season by shoveling sidewalks and mailboxes while my brother was plowing driveways. The snow was coming down heavy with low visibility and it was very cold night with wet shoes and pants, I was shoveling for approx. 4 hours around 3:30 am ("I was not tired or was I drinking")It seemed that the clouds were low with 2 feet of snow and it was very, very quite in this area of this middle class neighborhood.

I'm not sure what the elevation is up in Randolph NJ but the area is wooded and hills. As I was shoveling a Dark Blue flash emitted from the sky (not a beam or a laser type, no rolling thunder, rain, or lighting.) Just a surrounding Dark Blue heavy dence flash.

I was standing and bending over. The best I can describe it seem to lit the whole area. As far that I can tell and trying to remember it lasted approx.

3 sec's. Now I felt startled, and a signigifiant change in temperture. It felt that my heart has stopped.

(more like a scared feeling) I felt a warm feeling and I started to cough,(coughing fit lasted for approx. 5-10 Minutes.) I remember then my area of inside my lungs felt very warm and I became light headed and my face was flush(lasted about 4 minutes.

) I'm not saying it was a UFO or whatever! But It scared the day lights out of me, and my brother saw it too but he was in the truck. He did not experience what I have felt. I can't explain it.

02/01/93 3:30 AM

UFO Shape: flash

Lasted: 3 sec's

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New Jersey UFO Sightings From 1993 By Shape

This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.

Shape / Appearance Sightings % Of Total
Circle 2 reported sightings 50.00% of all reports
Flash 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports
Disk 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports

New Jersey UFO Sightings From 1993 By Month

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.

Month Sightings % Of Total
July 2 reported sightings 50.00% of all reports
December 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports
February 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports

New Jersey UFO Sightings From 1993 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
Saturday 2 reported sightings 50.00% of all reports
Wednesday 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports
Monday 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports

New Jersey UFO Sightings From 1993 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
07/10/93 2 reported sightings 50.00% of all reports
12/01/93 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports
02/01/93 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports

New Jersey UFO Sightings From 1993 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
Late night 00:00 - 03:59 3 reported sightings 75.00% of all reports
Night 20:00 - 23:59 1 reported sightings 25.00% of all reports

All New Jersey Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1993

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in New Jersey, in 1993

City Number of Reports View Reports
New Egypt 2 UFO Reports New Egypt UFO Sightings in 1993
Clifton 1 UFO Reports Clifton UFO Sightings in 1993
Randolph 1 UFO Reports Randolph UFO Sightings in 1993

Other 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.

Year Number of Reports View Reports
2024 6 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2024
2023 78 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2023
2022 98 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2022
2021 78 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2021
2020 145 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2020
2019 194 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2019
2018 59 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2018
2017 122 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2017
2016 130 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2016
2015 131 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2015
2014 168 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2014
2013 167 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2013
2012 160 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2012
2011 92 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2011
2010 93 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2010
2009 119 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2009
2008 105 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2008
2007 69 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2007
2006 68 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2006
2005 87 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2005
2004 86 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2004
2003 76 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2003
2002 59 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2002
2001 70 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2001
2000 52 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2000
1999 40 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1999
1998 27 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1998
1997 23 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1997
1996 22 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1996
1995 20 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1995
1994 10 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1994
1993 4 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1993
1992 5 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1992
1991 7 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1991
1990 6 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1990
1989 7 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1989
1988 7 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1988
1987 4 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1987
1986 2 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1986
1985 7 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1985
1984 3 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1984
1983 7 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1983
1982 8 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1982
1981 6 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1981
1980 11 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1980
1979 12 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1979
1978 11 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1978
1977 2 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1977
1976 6 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1976
1975 11 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1975
1974 8 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1974
1973 8 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1973
1972 4 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1972
1971 2 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1971
1970 7 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1970
1969 3 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1969
1965 2 UFO Reports New Jersey UFO Sightings in 1965