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New Jersey UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 145 UFO sighting reports in New Jersey from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (29 reports, 20.00% of total).
- March is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (21 reports, 14.48% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (36 reports, 24.83% of total).
- 08/08/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (6 reports, 4.14% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (60 reports, 41.38% of total).
New Jersey UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 New Jersey UFO reports from 2020, 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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Small reflective orb flying over monmouth county, nj followed by several military jets. This is my second time seeing this object. The first time was in the fall, same region, same time of day.
That time also followed by military jets scrambled to the area. This time I got it on camera and chased it for 30mins with my 6 yr old daughter. I added a filter to the beginning portion to add contrast but I also have a professional videographer enhancing the footage.
You tell me what you think. I’ve asked experts and they said the most compelling part are all the military planes following it. Driving west on Eatontown blvd, I made a left on County road 547 and immediately spotted a bright reflective orb.
I pulled into the parking lot of the park to capture footage and it was appearing and disappearing in the clouds. I got back on the road and drove towards Rt. 35 and spotted the object again immediately directly above a shopping center.
My daughter and I also notices 7-8 fighter jets setting a perimeter in the sky around the object. We also spotted dark planes with flashing lights flying directly above the object. The object disappeared, I spotted it again with an orange reflection of the sunset a few mins later but I could no longer capture footage due to driving in traffic.
https://youtu.be/MJFkD2ClbwU.
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Watched Small bright light travel southwest of manhattan. It was small solid light watched it for a minute or 2. It was lower than the clouds only a couple hundred feet above the ground.
After watching it for 2 minutes It vanished.
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Object with Red Blinking lights, went flying super fast over the hudson from south to north. It was not unreal fast, but too fast for something flying at that level. I thought it was a fighter jet but it didn't make any sound.
I was on the couch looking out the window when I saw it and went to the balcony. The object turned back south and as it came closer I saw a bright beam of light (like xenon headlights of a car, just very big). It went behind a big cloud and I couldnt spot it afterwards.
I wouldn't say it was definitely a ufo, but crazy enough for me to report this and try to find out what it was.
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Spherical green light hovering in New Jersey I was driving when I stopped at an intersection and noticed a green circular light hovering about 20-30 feet away from my vehicle. It was flying very low in the sky. It was small, spherical, bright green, and glowing while moving very slowly and with intention.
After about 10-15 seconds it flew off above the trees into the distance. It flew extremely fast and moved in a rhythmic side to side motion. The object appeared quite small.
What I saw really freaked me out and I’ve been trying to put it out of my mind but I just can’t.
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Green Light moves across sky at high Speeds I was going down Route 23. When in my Upper Windshield, I saw a Green Light go very fast across the sky, too fast to be a plane. I told my friends on Discord after pulling over.
The next day I drove the same route and saw many police and Hazmat crews in the area. I don't know if it was related.
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UFO with Bright White Lights at around 1:30am As I was driving home from my girlfriend’s house at around 1:30am, I noticed a saucer-shaped object flying at a low altitude. I almost dismissed it as a blimp, but then realized that a blimp would not be flying that fast and at 1:30am in the morning. The UFO had VERY bright white lights and I could definitely say it was not a plane.
There was one pulsating light in the middle. As I made my way down the road I continued to follow it. It dipped lower as I turned onto my street until I could not follow it any longer.
It seemed as though it was making a landing. I live near Teterboro Airport and would love to know if this event could be debunked or if someone else saw what I saw . Please e-mail me with any information: ((e-address deleeted)).
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I was standing outside on the front porch and I saw 2 fireball like objects floating through the sky flying at a fast speed. Faster than any planes fly. They were semi low in the sky and flying right behind each other.
Then all of a sudden a third one came out of nowhere and followed the first two. They didnt make any noise in the air and they were almost circular in shape and all lit up red. As quickly as they came they were gone.
It was amazing!.
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2 Triangular Ufos with 3 bright green lights appeared in the sky and flew towards eachother. I was driving with my friend and I looked out my window to the right and saw a triangular figure with 3 bright green lights under it. It flew really fast and was higher than a plane that flew under it and the 2 triangular ufos were flying towards each other and then just disappeared.
It was cloudy last night so they were mostly likely hidden behind the clouds.
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Few thousand feet above roof.below Orion's belt. Flashing .
pulsing.zoomed in and rectangle shape.I have been trying Ce5 recently.
Awesome.
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I got up to the bathroom after 2 in the morning, from the window I could see some very bright lights were 4 lights in an almost square oval shape, a light in each corner, so to speak, they were very bright and bluish in color, the object It was stopped but a few seconds later it began to move very slowly, and two identical objects appeared almost below the first one that I saw, they were a little smaller, I was very scared and I told my son to come and see these objects, we ran to the dining room to The large window, there I had a much broader vision, and we could see then that there were not only three, about 5 objects were seen moving all at the same time from left to right, all this happened at the level of my eyes, when I looked towards At the top of the window I saw that there were many, lined up and everything moving at the same speed very slowly, then I went out to the street and I could see the perimeter were at least 100 or more, all very bright and! flashingWe got scared and we went in, I kept looking through the window and the entire sector where these objects were, began to form a very rare and elongated waving cloud species in seconds the entire sector was covered with these rare clouds that were not clouds, and it became clearer, more illuminated, all this melted into a thick layer of mist that only covered the sector where these objects were, it became a kind of giant triangle with a milky appearance, gradually it was fading, but it only happened Inside the perimeter where these objects were, suddenly a kind of very large meteorite was seen that crossed in front of me with an electric blue head and leaving a trail of a very strong electric green too, also before this we saw a giant ribbon like a cloud , which moved like a snake in a great hurry from the right to the left to solidify at the beginning of where these objects were and blend in with the rest of the fog.I stayed until 6 in the morning watching everythi! ng. The objects remained immobile but very radiant, and the mi! lky clou ds happened once more, and then around 5 in the morning one of the closest and largest objects with very radiant lights descended a little and moved a couple of times from right to left and so vice versa until all the objects lined up again and went the way they arrived I don't know if they are government drones or UFOs? But I was afraid, it felt like a galactic invasion, I felt very minimized and angry, please, what was this? I have videos and a photo.
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It flew across highway dropped to the ground and sky rocketed.
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Witnessed object being chased by fighter jets 30 passes so far.
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Triangle shaped. 3 circular dim lights. Craft looked semi-transparent.
No sound. Smooth movement in straight line across sky Was watching meteor shower 1:45am on back deck with another witness and we both noticed a triangular shaped object moving very smoothly across the sky north to south. Was pretty low.
Too fast for an airplane. No flashing lights. Not a single sound.
Not a drone. The movement was very smooth. The craft was triangular shaped and looked almost transparent.
There were several (looked like 3) circular dim lights on the corners of the triangle. I saw first and second witness looked up and followed where I was looking and saw the same exact thing. We followed it across the sky until it was out of our view which lasted about 15 seconds.
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UFO sighting outside CVS. Event Details: At approximately 1900 hours I was leaving the CVS pharmacy located at 328 White Horse Pike in Pomona, New Jersey. As I was pulling out of the parking lot, I noticed a bright white ball rising from out of the tree line located directly behind the CVS and a construction site behind the store.
The object got very bright and then faded back to its original luminosity. At this point I pulled my vehicle over and began recording the object with my phone. The object was very bright, round and about 1/10th the size of a full moon.
I noticed that It was much larger a star or planet would be in the night sky. After rising from above the tree line the object than remained stationary just above the tree line for approximately a minute and a half and then its brightness began to fade until it was gone. I heard no noise that might have been associated with a helicopter or aircraft.
I live relatively close to the Atlantic City international Airport and there was aircraft visible in the sky! at the same time as the object, however aircraft look very different than what I saw and are much smaller and further away in the sky and emit a blinking light.
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Big triangular haze moving north gets to a busy street and disappears. My uncle, grandfather, my brother, and I were fishing under a bridge my brother walked out and saw witch looked like a big triangle moving north. He asked my grandfather if I was a blimp but it was to big and two low to be a blimp.
It had a white haze around it It got to the busy street and turned into a big cloud. It looked like it had just evaporated. There was no clouds in the sky that night.
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While coming out side I decided to look up because it was clear I the saw this cloud looking group of lights in the sky so I put my glasses on only to see a diamon group of light flashing lights alternating there flashes. They weren't like stars it appeared to hover but then it would look like it turned round it then went back to a diamond shaped couldn't believe what I was seeing I called my step daughter and my daughters mother to see the lights and they thought I was lying until they saw exactly what I was talking about.
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white flashing shaped disc coming down at 45 degree angle to land on ground disc shaped object flashing white lights coming in to land at a 45 degree angle to land beyond trees, no noise.
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Oval shape white orb with tail Went outside in my backyard to let the dogs out. As I looked up in the sky I seen a white oval orb with a trail traveling in straight direction from North to south. The rate of speed was like nothing I seen before in my life.
The object made no sound. The approximate hight of the traveling object was hard to interpret due to the speed, so was the size of the oval size whitish orb. Could be wrong but seemed like it was flying twice to three times as hight as a landing aircraft ( which we se very often due to proximity to PHL airport) but it was traveling at a speed I never seen before an object to move in the sky.
The trail it left behind is something also I never seen before in the night sky because it moved at same speed and disappeared at same proportional rate as the white oval was moving.
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One orrange light and a couple white lights. Circle. Came very close to my face.
No sound. Hard to make out with the lights and my fe I was smoking outside. In an apartment complex.
I walked to the end and was staring at the moon. It was beautiful. I noticed a bunch of airplanes outside.
It looked to be so high up. But it wasn't. Because one came down, right above my head at the treeline.
It was aware, and it looked as if it noticed me and came down. It had an orange light and white lights, combined. It was well hidden, because when it went back up, after I ran for my life.
I showed my neighbors, who said it was an airplane. I said no it came down to my face. It was a circle type of object, but hard to see with the bright lights.
After I collected myself and went back outside. There were 2 of them. Hanging out here for about an hour.
It came down to me again, a couple of times. I was terrified. And I wish I wasn't.
But the ending was when it got very strange. When they left, for good. I had a couple neighbors outside.
And it came at me one last time. But this time, it was the shape of! a real airplane. And this time it made sound.
But it was the same exact object that flew down towards me a couple of times during the night. And the airplane was so low. Right over my complex.
That didn't make sense either. During the hour I also saw a helicopter. Flying by, above it.
But now I question if that was truly a real helicopter because of the ending. I would like to be able to find out if there was any traffic above my complex. I took a couple pictures of it.
But, again, it really doesn't do any good, because it looks like a craft in the air. The only reason I knew it wasn't was because it flew all the way down to me. 10 feet ide say above me.
It wasn't big, at all.
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Orange triangle object slowly shrinks into ball and disappears I saw an orange object that looked like a triangle at first I though it was the moon at first but the moon wasn’t in that direction it then proceeded to slowly shrink down into a ball and slowly disappeared lasting about 3 to 4 minutes.
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 29 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Circle | 18 reported sightings | 12.41% of all reports |
Other | 12 reported sightings | 8.28% of all reports |
Formation | 11 reported sightings | 7.59% of all reports |
Unknown | 11 reported sightings | 7.59% of all reports |
Triangle | 10 reported sightings | 6.90% of all reports |
Sphere | 8 reported sightings | 5.52% of all reports |
Oval | 7 reported sightings | 4.83% of all reports |
Disk | 6 reported sightings | 4.14% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 2.76% of all reports |
Changing | 4 reported sightings | 2.76% of all reports |
Egg | 4 reported sightings | 2.76% of all reports |
Fireball | 4 reported sightings | 2.76% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 1.38% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 1.38% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2020 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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March | 21 reported sightings | 14.48% of all reports |
August | 20 reported sightings | 13.79% of all reports |
July | 17 reported sightings | 11.72% of all reports |
April | 13 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
December | 12 reported sightings | 8.28% of all reports |
June | 12 reported sightings | 8.28% of all reports |
February | 11 reported sightings | 7.59% of all reports |
September | 10 reported sightings | 6.90% of all reports |
May | 9 reported sightings | 6.21% of all reports |
October | 8 reported sightings | 5.52% of all reports |
January | 7 reported sightings | 4.83% of all reports |
November | 5 reported sightings | 3.45% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 36 reported sightings | 24.83% of all reports |
Monday | 25 reported sightings | 17.24% of all reports |
Thursday | 23 reported sightings | 15.86% of all reports |
Wednesday | 20 reported sightings | 13.79% of all reports |
Sunday | 16 reported sightings | 11.03% of all reports |
Tuesday | 16 reported sightings | 11.03% of all reports |
Friday | 9 reported sightings | 6.21% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2020 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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08/08/20 | 6 reported sightings | 4.14% of all reports |
03/26/20 | 4 reported sightings | 2.76% of all reports |
08/27/20 | 3 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
03/01/20 | 3 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
03/04/20 | 3 reported sightings | 2.07% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 60 reported sightings | 41.38% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 32 reported sightings | 22.07% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 20 reported sightings | 13.79% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 12 reported sightings | 8.28% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 12 reported sightings | 8.28% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 9 reported sightings | 6.21% of all reports |
All New Jersey Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in New Jersey, in 2020
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.