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New Jersey UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 194 UFO sighting reports in New Jersey from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (28 reports, 14.43% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (30 reports, 15.46% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (39 reports, 20.10% of total).
- 10/05/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 2.58% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (76 reports, 39.18% of total).
New Jersey UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 New Jersey UFO reports from 2019, 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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large slow moving craft with colored lights in Harmony NJ While relaxing and watching television, I noticed unusual lights in the sky just outside my living room window. I have never seen this before because my house is located in between a mountain and the Delaware River. Having been a small plane pilot, I am pretty sure a plane couldn't reach this low altitude.
It was so low, that my immediate thought was that a plane was about to crash. I stepped outside and saw a large low flying object just above the treetops. It was slowly making it's way around my house.
I have a vacant lot next to my house so there was easy access to get by me. It was then I realized I was witnessing something out of the ordinary so I ran in to get my phone camera. I also turned the front porch light out so I could see better.
I think there were green, red and blue lights. The object was either triangle, square or round. I couldn't tell with the lights were flashing.
It continued alongside my house slowly and low to the ground and crossed the river. At this point, I was a little nervous and went back inside and watched from the back door. My back patio is on the Delaware River.
The Delaware River separates New Jersey from Pennsylvania. So, I'd be curious to know if anyone in Easton, Palmer, Forks, Bangor, Wind Gap, Pa area, had seen anything. I can't emphasize enough at how slow moving the object was.
This passage from my front window around my house was 4 or 5 minutes. I had gone in and out of my house 3 times during the time the object made its way around. One more thing, in the past when I had heard about sightings, people speak of whirling or silence.
I did hear some time of motor, but wouldn't describe it as whirling. When the object finally disappeared over a mountain in Pennsylvania, I quickly went to my phone to see the video. Unfortunately, it was not recorded.
Has anyone else seen something like this?.
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From my car I saw a bright white orb moving slowly near a cloud bank. I attempted to film it and it disappeared. I put the phone down and it reappeared.
Again it disappeared when I attempted to film it. I continued onward to my destination which was less than a quarter mile away, the Watsessing train station in Bloomfield. I exited the car, I anticipated seeing the object and it appeared.
I was able to get footage. The object was stationary and then flickered out, then once more reappeared brightly and faded away. The video can be seen at tge folliwing link: https://youtu.
be/p1A1_Cnnw60 I am an experiencer. I've had several other sightings which I did not report. I'm reporting this sighting because of the video.
There is a lot of air traffic in the area which I have a lifetime of familiarity with and I know this was not traditional aircraft.
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My son reported that for a three seconds he witnessed a bright light that was above the clouds move in an arc curve. It disappeared as suddenly as it came. No other lights were discernable.
He has seen satellites overhead, but he says this was closer then a satellite but farther then an airplane.
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Purplish, orange sunrise, metallic taste in mouth , travel timing. & the grayish ufo that’ll be imprinted in my mind forever! Want to report this sighting that occurred last night in December the 26th, 2019. We (me and my 11 year old son) was walking to the Walgreens nearest to our home when suddenly out of nowhere I felt that of a strange headache along with a metallic state to my mouth.
It struck me extremely odd when my son said to me suddenly, moments after I began feeling the symptoms, that his mouth tasted as if he had a penny in his mouth! As my son said this he placed both his hands over his head, clearly a sign that he, as well, was feeling that of the same symptoms as me! This was at night however , for that of a split second the lighting of the sky appeared that of an orange/purplish light color . resembling that of a sunrise! We both exchanged a nonverbal look, a look that gave me a chill up my spine, as it had confirmed to me that indeed, my son as well had seen the same strange phenomenon. It is then that my son looked up & his eyes widened so large it frightened me! My son pulled, rather tugged me inside the Walgreens and had stated to me that he had seen that of a wide large light greyish object that was not to far above from us.
only a few feet up above the Walgreens. At this point in time I did not see what he had just described, just te sky within a split of a second turning into that of a sunrise color. I calmed him down while we was in the Walgreens photo section and reassured him that due to the sky turning a different color, perhaps as it subsided he thought he had seen what he just described.
When we got home, I went to the back last room of our house, which is one of my eldest son’s room. To my utter shock and disbelief, the metallic taste in my mouth along with the headache, which I had experienced along with my son and had left once we saw that ‘strange sunrise’ just a mere 20 to 30 minutes earlier by the Walgreens. I was in quite a stage of shock! Due to the notion that my son has 3 windows parallel to one another, I quickly gave a fast glimpse, expecting to see that ‘strange sunrise’ , if you will.
except, this time, i had witnessed was definitely out of this world! A long, grey rectangle. or should I say ship looking object slowly past the 2 front windows first . in that of a slow motion, making a left to the 3rd window! I quickly looked at my son’s closet mirror, which allows me to see 2 of the windows of his room to see if what i had just seen was there or what in the world was going on?! Next thing I know I was awakened by my son asking me if my migraine (I am a chronic migraine sufferer) has subsided .
I quickly jumped up from the bed and just couldn’t believe what was happening! It was as if one minute I was staring into the mirror and the next being awakened, mind you, tucked in, in my son’s bed!.
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Diamond shaped ship gliding along avalon blvd. Abruptly stopped and hovered over newsroom 40 building for at least an hour.
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Hovering bright light like a strobe light. Hovering. Possible drone.
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Blue-green burst of light traveled horizontally in the sky for 3 and completely disappeared. While driving in our car on Delsea Dr. in Glassboro, my daughter and I saw a greenish/bluish burst of light horizontally traveled in the sky.
It almost resembled an asteroid. It happened very quickly; within two blinks of an eye it had completely vanished into thin air. I called the police department, but they couldn’t explain what it may have been.
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BRIGHT RED LIGHTS OVER PHILLY/SOUTH JERSEY AREA (FORMATION) I’m posting this because NOBODY on the internet, YouTube or even Snapchat stories in my area are NOT posting about what we saw and it’s driving my nuts. So I’m in the barbershop last night getting a cut. Halfway into it some barbers outside on their smoke break burst in the door yelling “Yo come out and look at the sky bro!!” So I’m in the chair with the smock on and I look in the sky and right over philly (philly is five miles from me just over the bridge) were these red lights floating out of the city.
THEY WERE NOT DRONES. DRONES DONT FLY AS HIGH AS THESE WERE GOING. These bright red lights floated one by one into the highest point in the sky PASS THE CLOUDS.
One by one they floated out of philly until there was about 25-30 of them hanging in the sky. THEN THESE LIGHTS FORMED A TRIANGLE AND DISAPPEARED!!!!! NOT A DRONE. People in other establishments in the area were outside recording on their phones and pedestrians stopped to stare and even cars on the r! oad stopped to stare.
YET NO ONE IS CONCERNED ABOUT THIS BUT ME. LIKE EVERYONE HAS PLAYED BLIND TO IT, MAN THAT WAS SCARY AND I CANT LET THAT GO. SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME YOU LIVE IN THE AREA AND SAW WHAT WE SAW.
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White hovering sphere with some green and red lights At about 5:30 am, before sunrise, my husband, son and I noticed a light in the sky. We would have thought it to be an airplane but it did not move. It hovered for about 20 minutes.
During that time we looked at it through binoculars and took a few pictures zooming in on it. It was a sphere with white lights and some green and red lights on the sides.
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I seen sky blue huge circler light drop straight down out of the sky. It maneuvered under power. I was sitting at a stop sign when i noticed it.
I couldn't believe what I saw. When I got home, my husband said 2 hour before i seen the object army helicopter flew over the house .there where so low It shook are brick house.
My daughter also stated early that afternoon around 1:00 pm she heard and seen army helicopters fly over the house. I know I'm not the only one who saw this in vineland nj. I cant Be it lit up the sky!!.
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MADAR Node 146.
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Overcast and Windy morning over Lake Musconetcong Netcong NJ. Flashing orbs approx 10 dancing in and out of clouds. Orbs of Light.
Witnessed for about 20 minutes.
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Giant light Triangle over Camden County Night Sky . Looking up, i notice a triangle moving very slowly south. It can be seen in the distance.
It is very large, possibly few hundred feet. I hope someone sees this!!! It can still be seen RIght now. The surface area is ginormous that it is covering.
As I try to record my cell phone can't pick up actual video because of distance. Am I the only person seeing this.
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MADAR Node 145.
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White ball of light moving slowly east. There were three airplanes in the sky,one flew above and the other flew under the object.There were No flashing lights.
The object was moving away from me. The ball of light looked like it was smaller than the airplanes, but still big and round. No wings were visible.
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Quick white light came and went rapidly While looking north East at Sirius a brilliant white light passed at extremely rapid speed in the shape of a triangle then disappeared. Approximately 1 sec.
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MADAR Node 145.
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Me and my son saw a Triangle floating gray flat object with lights on each corner over the trees from my backyard window I was sleeping, my son and I woke up to a loud vibrating noise. I looked out my backyard window. I saw a big flat triangle color dark gray with lights on each corner.
Hovering slowing over the trees at Paterson Garret Mountain.
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Gray triangle across silently slowly moves above trees in WOODCLIFF LAKE NJ Driving down residential street a gray triangle with 3 circles of lighter gray color moving too slow and soundless above trees no more than about 100 feet above ground.
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I pointed out a bright star to my boyfriend and he was trying to explain to me that it was an airplane because it started to move. I then agreed but noticed it stopped moving. When it moved, it moved diagonally and quickly.
When it stopped it just hovered. After about 7 minutes I watched it shoot down a red blinking light. I quickly notified my boyfriend and he saw it too.
He called his father to the room and he saw it too. Almost immediately after we heard and saw 2 planes head into the ssme direction the red lights went to. After the red light reached the water it hovered for about a minute and disappeared.
The original white light (that was mistaken for a star/airplane) began to fade away.
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Circle | 28 reported sightings | 14.43% of all reports |
Light | 23 reported sightings | 11.86% of all reports |
Triangle | 13 reported sightings | 6.70% of all reports |
Oval | 13 reported sightings | 6.70% of all reports |
Unknown | 12 reported sightings | 6.19% of all reports |
Sphere | 10 reported sightings | 5.15% of all reports |
Other | 9 reported sightings | 4.64% of all reports |
Flash | 6 reported sightings | 3.09% of all reports |
Disk | 6 reported sightings | 3.09% of all reports |
Egg | 4 reported sightings | 2.06% of all reports |
Cross | 4 reported sightings | 2.06% of all reports |
Fireball | 4 reported sightings | 2.06% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 1.55% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 1.55% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 1.55% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 1.55% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.52% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 0.52% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 0.52% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.52% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2019 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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September | 30 reported sightings | 15.46% of all reports |
July | 23 reported sightings | 11.86% of all reports |
October | 22 reported sightings | 11.34% of all reports |
April | 19 reported sightings | 9.79% of all reports |
August | 19 reported sightings | 9.79% of all reports |
June | 17 reported sightings | 8.76% of all reports |
May | 16 reported sightings | 8.25% of all reports |
November | 13 reported sightings | 6.70% of all reports |
December | 10 reported sightings | 5.15% of all reports |
March | 9 reported sightings | 4.64% of all reports |
January | 8 reported sightings | 4.12% of all reports |
February | 8 reported sightings | 4.12% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 39 reported sightings | 20.10% of all reports |
Tuesday | 33 reported sightings | 17.01% of all reports |
Thursday | 29 reported sightings | 14.95% of all reports |
Sunday | 25 reported sightings | 12.89% of all reports |
Friday | 25 reported sightings | 12.89% of all reports |
Monday | 22 reported sightings | 11.34% of all reports |
Wednesday | 21 reported sightings | 10.82% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2019 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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10/05/19 | 5 reported sightings | 2.58% of all reports |
10/08/19 | 4 reported sightings | 2.06% of all reports |
09/21/19 | 4 reported sightings | 2.06% of all reports |
09/24/19 | 3 reported sightings | 1.55% of all reports |
09/27/19 | 3 reported sightings | 1.55% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 76 reported sightings | 39.18% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 39 reported sightings | 20.10% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 27 reported sightings | 13.92% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 22 reported sightings | 11.34% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 15 reported sightings | 7.73% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 15 reported sightings | 7.73% of all reports |
All New Jersey Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in New Jersey, in 2019
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.