New Jersey UFO Sightings in 2002

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BOUNCING LIGHTS ON THE DRIVEWAY, AND BRIGHT LIGHTS IN THE SKY I WAS VISITING MY PARENTS BACK EAST. WE WERE WATCHING TV (MY PARENTS AND I), AND I SAW THROUGH THE LIVING ROOM WINDOW BRIGHT LIGHTS ON OUR DRIVE WAY. IT WAS LIKE BOUNCING, FLICKERING, BLUISH/WHITE FLASHING LIGHTS (NOT IN A CIRCULAR MOTION, BUT UP AND DOWN) .

I RAN TO THE WINDOW, AND THEY RAN OUTSIDE. THERE WERE NO CARS OUTSIDE (AS I THOUGHT IT MAY HAVE BEEN POLICE FLASHING LIGHTS). THAN I LOOKED UP IN THE SKY (IT WAS CLOUDY, AND SNOWING), AND THE WHOLE SKY GOT BRIGHTER AND BRIGHTER THAN IT STOPPED LIKE IT DESAPPEARED, AND THE SKY BECAME GREENISH/BLUEISH COLOR, AND IT WAS GONE.

NO SOUND WAS HEARD. THERE WAS A SIGHTING ABOUT BRIGHT LIGHTS IN UNION, NJ THE DAY BEFORE.WAS WONDERING IF ANYONE ELSE SAW ANYTHING XMAS EVENING.

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Bright light during the night -- like day time --- sounded like popcorn popping This bright light lit up the sky as if it were day time. Everyone left there houses to see this bright light and there was a strange sound like popcorn being made. The lite made it easy for me to clean the snow off my car; But we were all quite nevrous.

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Single white orb appeared out of nowhere, hovering for a moment before shooting out of sight. A single sphere of white light appeared out of nowhere in the sky. It hovered for a moment in mid-air, before shooting down in an arc very quickly.

Five times the size of the planes that were passing nearby. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain anonymous. PD)).

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The object flew very low to the ground, while watching it outside from hottub. The saucer looking craft flew very low to the ground. There was flashing red lights on every side.

These lights were not very bright but very much brighter then an planes lights. The craft flew horizontily in a spinning motion. This motion was not a fast spin but more like a rotation.

It was hard to tell which part of the craft was spinning the outside or the inside. It came very close to hitting another flying aircraft which might have been a plane. A minute or so later there were many other flying aircrafts farther away probably planes however it was to far away to see.

The object flew very slow and low to the ground,but still well above the height of our house, and lasted around ten seconds. After seeing the aircraft the house plumming backed up and the toilets started bubbling and no one could use the bathroom or run any water. ((NUFORC Note: Witness describes self as a student in the 7th grade.

He writes very well, given his relatively youthful chronological age. PD)).

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While viewing the meteor shower, I noticed 2-3 chevron shaped objects traveling in formation from North to South. The objects were a dimly lit orange. They traversed the sky (from North to South) in seven seconds or so.

They made no noise or trail. They held formation. This is my first sighting.

Just curious if there were any other reports of this since so many eyes were viewing the event. It also happened at the so called "peak" of the event(05:30-05:40 am). Conditions were clear (no clouds).

Formation looked like this: ^ ^ ^ ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain anonymous. The appearance of the formation did not survive transfer from our e-mail to our database. PD)).

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2 orange hazes scrambling across the sky. I was outside with my wife. I looked up at the sky at what I thought was the big dipper.

I thought to myself that it looked kind of weird. Then I noticed what I thought were 2 stars appear to be slowly moving. They appeared to be as high as the stars.

(Not airplane height but way higher)The 2 stars appeared to be 2 orange hazes lights moving parallel with each other. Than it stopped, suddenly shot foward again parallel, than stopped again. The 2 lights started to circle each other (like a figure eight pattern) Than they shot across the sky again, stopping and zig-zagging.

Both lights staying close with in each other. I told my wife to look up I think its a ufo. See couldn't find the lights and they began to zig-zag, stop and go & disappeared.

I thought I was seeing things, but I know I saw something, But what? I have chills as I write this. It was not a satelite, meteor or airplane.

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((NUFORC Note: Our gratitude to Paul Nahay, and the Fund for UFO Research, for submitting and sharing this report. We have left the indicated URL in the report here. The complete report by Paul Nahay can be seen at the URL indicated above.

PD)) Rectangular Object Twice Size of 747 Seen by Two BTW, your "click here to see examples" page is invalid: http://www.msatech.com/nufor/webreports/ndxe199410.

html Account is at: http://pnahay.home.sprynet.

com/ufowitne.htm I attempted to remove names etc. from the above account, in the following: Sunday, November 10, 2002.

We were driving south on Rt. 295 in New Jersey, and were maybe a mile north of Exit 31 (Lawnside, NJ). We were returning to Maryland and Virginia.

I was in the front passenger seat, and it was approximately 1:30pm. Driver saw something to the left and ahead of us, and called my attention to it; it would have been in the southeast quadrant of the Rt. 295 and White Horse Pike/Rt.

30 interchange (Haddon Heights, NJ). I got to see it for perhaps at most about three seconds; I feel if I had gotten to see it for even a few more seconds, I would have been able to decide more definitively how anomalous it really was. What I saw was a large, dark rectangular object, oriented horizontally, just above the trees, about 1.

5 miles away. It was the length (left to right) of two of my thumbs held at arm's length, and it was about 1/4 as wide (up/down) as it was long (this estimate of "thumb width" was done later, not at the time). It was either black or very dark gray, and it was somewhat "fuzzy" in its outline, in a way I can't quite describe; it looked strange, unlike anything I've seen before.

We were currently driving down a hill, thus the object, which I happened to see as the bottom of it just started to go below the treeline, continued to descend below the treeline (being on Rt. 295, we couldn't stop or slow down, of course). The driver, who saw it for a few seconds longer, said she thought it was moving horizontally and downward, very slowly; I had the impression it was moving downward as well (since WE were moving horizontally and downward ourselves, it made it hard to discern how much of the object's motion was from it, versus us, but we both had the impression that it was moving itself, but very slowly).

We had our windows closed, so we would not have been able to hear any sound from it even if there had been any. It was definitely not an airplane, nor a conventional blimp, and certainly not a helicopter; there were no wings of any kind, nor anything hanging down from it, such as the cabin of a blimp. Had it been a human-built craft, it had to be landing, and quite slowly (far more than any plane could), and it appeared to be going down in an area that was fairly dense with trees.

We were startled enough by this sight that we pulled off at the next exit, Exit 30 (Lawnside, NJ), which was only about a mile ahead of us. Of course, it was impossible for us to tell exactly where it had been, but we drove though an old residential area to about where we thought we had seen the object. Naturally, we saw nothing.

We pulled into a large shopping center (the one having the tall tower with the White Horse on top; no, the object we saw was NOT this well-known landmark that I knew even as a child growing up in NJ). We looked around the skies in all directions, saw nothing. After looking for about seven minutes or so, we got back onto Rt.

295 at Exit 29a, and continued southward. For the next ten minutes, I kept looking out the back window of Sue's car, scanning the skies for any object, but saw nothing (not even any planes). The weather was a bit chilly, but the air and sky were very clear, with visibility of (I would guess) tens of miles, with some very high clouds.

As to the estimation of the size of the object: it was the length (left to right) of between one and two of my thumb widths, held at arm's length. My thumbs are approximately 2cm wide; the distance from my eyes to my thumbs, approx. 60cm.

Using simple geometric proportion, the following table estimates the range of possible lengths of the object (ObjectLengthInMiles=ThumbWidths*2cm/60cm*MilesAway): Thumb Widths (2.0cm): 1.0 1.

5 2.0 1.0 Miles Away 0.

0333 0.05 0.0667 1.

5 Miles Away 0.05 0.075 0.

1 2.0 Miles Away 0.0667 0.

1 0.133 Taking the middle estimates of 1.5 thumb widths, with the object being 1.

5 miles away, gives us a UFO length of 0.075 miles, times 1600 meters/mile equals 120 meters, with the range being between 53 and 213 meters. The 747 jets that NASA uses for the space shuttle program are 71 meters long, so the middle estimate puts the object at being 1.

7 times the length of a 747.

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North New Jersey Rocket shaped craft seen Rocket shaped craft seen and heard over north new jersey. I myself did not witness this event as i was asleep on the first level and windows faced opposite direction ( east, event was witnessed to the west ). Early this morning(november 3) my two young daughters aged 5 and 8, along with their friend(9) and my girlfriend(26)woke meto explain to me what they had witnessed just hours ago in the early hours of saturday november 3rd.

It unfolded like this: At 2am of november third my oldest daughter and her friend were awaked by a very loud sound, described to me to sound like a rocket leaving the earths atmosphere(lot of thrust), upon looking out the window, which faces west and is right alongside bed, she saw over the trees of our property a rocket shaped craft speeding toward the sky at a reasonably high rate of speed and holding a steady course up. She then awaked her friend who was sharing the bed with her, as well as my girlfriend laying a bed away, to look out the window at the rocket ship ripping through the sky. The window is on the second floor and faces west.

The visibility of the area of sky, from top of trees on property to highest visible point of sky is ample as the trees are low and the windows high. Note: this morning i had both my daughter and her friend both seperately draw what they had seen and they were exactly the same. Also, my girlfriend cooborated the intense rumbling at the time of the sighting, so i know the children weren't fantasizing/dreaming/playing.

Description: A perfect rocket shaped craft, long(vertically) shape with a conical tip. 2 to 4 unblinking yellow lights sat at the top area of the craft and did not flash or otherwise blink in such a way the FAA would require of an aircraft. They also described the presence of intense flames shooting from the rear, in true rocket fashion, as well as the possibility of some sort of window(s) along the lateral side of the craft.

Lights were also seen at the bottom portion of the craft above the exhaust area. As it moved skyward it created a contrail of either smoke or steam. The entire sighting may have lasted no more than a couple minutes, long enough for it to appear over the treeline until it was no longer visible from the window.

Not being a scientist or otherwise, i immediately assumed it was a launch of some type of rocket or military type craft headed for the great void. This after some thinking didn't sit well with me or make any sense for the following reasons. First off there is no known base in this immediate area, the description of the size was that of a large house, this coupledwith the level of detail they described led me to believe it was much closer than any launch from neighboring states etc.

Also, my girlfriend, whom never turned to look at it as she was tired, described a dopplereffect. The sound she said began as a low rumble and peaked so loud she believed whatever it was would crash into the house, so it was close. The sound was that of a space shuttle launch on takeoff and not the whine of a passenger jet turbine.

The most dramatic feat in question is that of it changind direction i.e altering its course in a marked fashion by turning about 45 degrees and keeping a course more or less straight up. Anyway, first thing after hearing this i phoned the local police station and was promptly accused of making a crank call.

I spoke in length with the desk sargeant about this and he soon realized it was no joke an listened. He claimed no one els\e reported the event after checking through the nights log and so on. I also asked him whom i should call to report the event and claimed he didn't know and furthermore there was no reason to as any military activity would have beed reported to them beforehand, which it wasn't.

Could you please contact me with any information regarding this event, military rocket activity, etc.? And did anyone else see this in the north jerresy area? I thought maybe it was a Vandenburg rocket launch, but whywould it be so close and so lowhere in new jersey?! thanx and please contact me when you can ((NUFORC Note: We do not know what the witness observed. Vandenberg AFB is in California.

PD)).

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I was walking on Friday, October 25th. It was already dark out. As as I walking, I turned around and happened to look up at the sky an suddenly saw an extremely fast object in the sky coming towards my direction.

All of a sudden this thing came to a stop above me. It was still, making no noise and had bright lights all around. I stopped in my tracks and just stared.

I did not know what to make of this and I continued to where I was going. When I turned around again to look it was gone. It was like nothing I'd ever seen in the sky or that I know man flies.

I've been trying to get information ever since as I know that I saw something very, very strange.

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Small, black triangle shaped object flying silently and slowly overhead olong NJ beach. Sometime in mid-October of 2002, I was sitting on the open porch of a rental house just decompressing from a long day of work, when I looked up at stars directly overhead. (The house is just 3 houses from the Atlantic Ocean).

I observed a small black isosceles-triange shaped object. It was approximately 40 feet long. It had one solid white light on each corner of the triangle.

I would estimate it to be about 400 feet above my head. It was cruising very slowly, in a due south direction, I would estimate it to be about 20 mph. It did not make a sound.

I watched it continue in a completely straight path until I could not see it any longer. I am still bothered to this day by what I saw that night. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate.

PD)).

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I was looking at what was, only an hour earlier, CLEAR BLUE SKIES, being filled up by what might be referred to as chemtrails. As I was watching them form in the sky, I was watching one particular plane go by when something caught my eye. There was a blinking dot, that was not blinking in any sequence I have ever seen on a plane.

It was behind the jet that flew by and was in now way a satelite or another plane. The direction I was facing was South-Southeast, the sun was at about 60 degrees off the horizon to the West. This object was not reflecting light from the Sun however.

The blinking pattern was like this: Flaaash,pause,pause,pause,Flaaash,pause,pause,pause,Flaaash - The flashing was longer than a standard strobe flash and the movement of the object was kind of hover like, slow movement towards the West/SouthWest. I ran inside to get my video camera and when I returned, the object was still there. The size of this thing and relative distance would be about the size of normal star in the night sky.

It was very small for certain, but at such a far off distance, could easily have been 30 feet in diameter or more? I tried zooming in object as I could see with naked eye, it was behind chemtrail, but against clear blue sky part, each strobe was noticeable only if you were looking right at it. Otherwise, no chance in hell you could spot it. This was a TOTAL luck shot, like one other occasion where I was looking up, and equally as exciting.

Had to report it as it happened. Thanks, ((name deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: We suspect that "chemtrails" are, in fact, normal contrails behind high-flying aircraft. We do not know what the witness, who elects to remain anonymous, observed.

PD)).

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Copper sphere sighted over Jersey City . Sphere maintains consistent altitude. The sphere was approx 2-3 feet in diameter ( an estimate based on its visibility in reference to the Chase building about a half-mile away and its relative size in comparison with Chase's satellite dishes) .

The sphere was of an unmistakeable copper finish. It was not emitting light but reflecting it. It turned black & shadowy on its lower half intermittently giving an impression of undulation.

It flew a straight and consistent flight path SW-NE maintaining altitude of about 300 feet. Its trajectory and path was too straight for a balloon to maintain for the duration that I witnessed. It made no sound.

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At 1:55 p.m. on October 6, I looked toward the east over Union, N.

J., and saw what appeared to be two extremely small, white aircraft that resembled crosses. They moved at slow air speed.

Each appeared to release what I thought might have been two parachutes. But I saw no person attached to them. Instead, I saw what looked like two tear-dropped, transparent shapes, almost the consistency of a bubble a kid would blow.

After a minute, they vanished and the aircraft moved west. Then, from behind a cloud, came three more planes of the same description and they formed a five-across formation and headed west toward Morristown, N.J.

Two minutes later, I heard a jet sweep through, but it was hidden behind clouds. But it sounded as if it were in pursuit. Five minutes later, four fighter jets joined the chase.

That's it.

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Enlarging the digital images showed what appeared to be in shape of a saucer like object. I took a high resolution digital photo of an metallic object that did'nt seem to move. I was using a 400mm lens and a 6.

3 meg camera. The sun wasn't up yet. It appeared during the pre- dawn sky.

I was on the beach in Brigantine NJ.When I used photoshop to enlarge the image I could see a raised center portion and a black what seemed like Windows or a Winshield . After I got around 4 pictures the predawn sky was changing and it disappeared.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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High flying object seen traveling at a high rate of speed. Object was traveling at a high rate of speed from the south west to the north east. It was very high in the sky, so high that its shape could not be seen.

I could not hear any noise. It was very bright white in color. Flying in a very straight line.

There was a very high plane laying down a chem trail traveling in the oppoiste direction. That is what I was looking at when I noticed this white object. It was a very clear day with a high sky and no clouds.

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Egg-shaped craft moving slowly, descended below horizon the headed away to West Observed with telescope a stationary cylindrical object comprised of an inner disk that was completely black and an outer ring that contained seemingly thousands of rapidly pulsating and rotating lights of constantly changing colors. Observer 1 I first saw what appeared to be a big star that was changing colors from red to blue to green, Looking through the telescope, I saw a very deliberately shaped circle of thousands of light grids that were pulsing and rotating. The colors were distinct, and some were indescribable.

A significantly smaller round object was flying around the object in a random pattern, sometimes disappearing from view. It was not star, and definitely a manufactured object. Observer 2 When looking through the telescope, the colors I observed were indescribable.

What I say may not make as much sense as I would like it to. The colors changed within an fraction of a second, and never slowed down pulsating. Each time it changed, it wasn't one solid color on the object.

There were several colors on it, neons, at a time. ~ Observer 3 ((NUFORC Note: Possible twinkling star? We do not know. PD)).

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Dancing light in sky over N.J. pulsed, vanished in perfect visibility While laying on a hammock, looking straisght up I observed a white light against a pale blue / cloudfree sky.

The light danced around in an area as big as a softball held at arms length. It moved, stopped, and changed directions faster than could be imagined. It looked like the effect you might get as your watch crytal picks up light and dances on the ceiling.

The object moved to the south west, stopped, pulsed and got brighter / larger and vanished.

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I live in Kearny, NJ. Yesterday me and my wife saw something which we could not classify as an ordinary event. About 11.

30 PM I came to kitchen to take a coke from refrigirator. The light in the room was of but I did not turn it on because I came only for short time. Since it was dark in the room the light object suddenly appeared in the window has drawn my attention.

It was disk-shaped brightely lightened object flying in the sky. It came out from behind of the tree and crossed the part of the sky visible from our window and disappeared behind the building. Astimating the distance I would say it was about 3-5 miles away from my place so it was located above the Newark or North Newark.

The object was heading west or north-west and was moving fast enough. I can not judge the object's size but can assume it was same or larger than passanger aircraft. It was flying below the clouds.

Totally I have observed it about 10-15 seconds. Once I saw it I called my wife which was just in the next room. She also saw the same object but for less time.

We are absolutely sure the object was real. Both of us saw exactly same picture. I don't know whether this information has any value, but we were so amazed.

I just want to share this information with someone who could find it interesting. ((FOLLOW-UP COMMUNICATION WITH WITNESS)) Dear Peter, Thank you for your response. Yes, both my wife and I are Russians.

Here, in USA, we are in ((graduate)) training. Both of us are ((subject deleted--biological science, generally)) and ((credentials deleted)). So, probably you can assume we are serious people and scientists.

I would like to assure you there is no joke or kidding in my report. We are absolutely positive in our UFO sighting experience. It was a really solid, material object of distinct disc-like shape, brightly lighted or fluorescent.

It was not light spot, cloud,aircraft or something else. I can be mistaken only about object's size and distance of it. Of course I was trying to figure out some more realistic explanations of my sighting.

My only guess it could be balloon (dirigible) which I saw once (about 3-4 months ago) in Newark vicinity. That time it was white balloon with blue HORIZON inscription on it. I believe it was advertising balloon.

But, on August 31, the object was 11.30 PM and a balloon's pilot would be crazy to fly such vehicle at night. And, theobject which we saw was glaring very brightly and moving much faster than a balloon (but I assume slower than aircraft).

About your supposition about Teterboro Airport, I would say that there is Newark International Airport much closer to our location. Aircraft frequently cross above our home and especially to east from it preparing for landing. So I am rather familiar with this stuff.

But the object which we saw was flying absolutely quietly and didn't look like aircraft at all. Regarding your question on object's location, I can say it was moving to west from us (Ibelieve parallel 280 highway, away from NYC, heading Newark orBloomfield). I think it was crossing Passaic river so it was on open territory for some time thus probably it could be seen very well by many people.

At the conclusion I can say that it was one of the weirdest things which I've ever seen. This is the only reason why I wanted to report this phenomenon. Regards, ((name deleted)).

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Multiple Triangle crafts spotted on the Atlantic City Expressway My mother and I were driving to the shore this evening. We were traveling on the Atlantic City Expressway headed towards Atlantic City. We started out about 10pm at the Walt Whitman Bridge, and around 10:25pm or so, we had just passed the Williamstown exit.

The road conditions were excellent, dry. The sky was illuminated with a full moon and a slight haze of clouds behind us in the west, but clear skies north/south and east. There was no fog, fires or anything else in the sky to obstruct our view.

As we are chatting I notice straight ahead about 2 miles and about 15 degrees off to the right of the highway, a very large object which looked more like a stick since the distance made it impossible to distinguish anything from it in the sky, appears to be 2 football fields wide, no more than 3/4 to a mile up with only three lights apparent, and not bright lights either, a dull yellow/gray. One on each end and one in the center. As we were looking at this for about a minute, it starts to bank hard to its' left which is south- the banking of the lights was greater than 90 degrees and it was heading lower as well.

We lost it very quickly in the treeline which lines most of the highway so I reduced my speed from about 65mph to about 40 and headed to the right lane. As we are waiting for the tree line to break a bit so we can look further south, a full minute goes by and then the trees start to break up. Within a few seconds, the tree line breaks up for a solid mile and as we look to the south, we see more objects.

This time there are at least two, possible three objects with slightly brighter lights of the yellow gray color, but again only 3 lights per object but we can only clearly see 8 lights. They are hovering about a mile from the highway in a field, one had a downlight beam of gray/white, the other one or two didn't. We still at this point could not make out any shapes, but they were definitely closer, definitely lower to the ground, maybe only 500 feet from the earth.

They seemed to be abou! t half t he size each of the large first object we saw. There was no noise from the area. There was no sign of the large object we had seen.

I am slowing the car at this point and am half in the shoulder, only traveling about 20mph now, getting ready to stop the car. The treeline starts cutting in and out again at this point. We are still trying to gain more of a glimpse of these objects when we both notice something flying towards us, it was the lights we noticed again first, this time a dark grayish color, about 500-1000 feet up and about 1/4 mile away.

Within a second it is flying over the treeline and looking up as it is about to go over the car and highway we can clearly see what it is. They are two triangular shaped crafts, with a light on each point. They are dark gray in color, but clearly visible in a full moon medium blue sky.

They are perfect equilateral triangles and there are two. They are both flying point first, appear to be only about 1000 feet above us, no noise, the dull lights on, flying neck and neck and appear to be about the size of a Lear jet. We watch as they cross over the car, and the highway.

They were flying due north towards us, but as they approaced the car seemed to have shifted course every so slightly as if they were flying to Seaside Heights area versus Central New Jersey. They are not flying all that quickly at this point, no faster than a jet in landing mode. But as they get about 1000 feet away from the highway, they just zip away, leaving no trails, but the three lights virtually disappear in an instant.

This is the biggest thrill of my life. I am going to head back that way tomorrow since it is only about 45 minutes from my house with a camera to see what happens. I will keep you posted either way.

I did contact two local news stations, neither seemed too interested. I had to wait to come back home to post this since no puter at the shorehouse. Observed 8/22/02, posted 8/24/02, revisit 8/25/02.

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WHILE DRIVING ON THE NEW JERSY TURN PIKE I SAW THREE UFOS. ((NUFORC Note: No other details provided by this student. PD)).