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New Jersey UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 78 UFO sighting reports in New Jersey from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (15 reports, 19.23% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (11 reports, 14.10% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (17 reports, 21.79% of total).
- 12/04/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 3.85% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (25 reports, 32.05% of total).
New Jersey UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 New Jersey UFO reports from 2021, 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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First a group of 4 orbs fallowed by 2 more came from the East and then went north 2 different sets of lights approached from the east and then went north First a set of 4 fallowed by a set of 2 No other aircraft in the sky and heard no sound besides cars going by.
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A long line of bright circles in the sky traveling at a constant rate. Me and two of my friends were outside of my car in Rutherford, NJ. When my one friend said to look up and we all saw a straight line of unevenly spaced white, bright circles.
It's unknown how many there were but from my video I could count at least 22 visible circles. they were moving in a completely straight line at a constant velocity and seemed very high up in the air. we watched it/ them cut across the sky for about a minute before it/ them just disappeared.
We live in a very bright area where seeing stars is hard, these could not be confused with stars due to the fact that they were moving and could also not be confused for a plane, we see plenty of planes in our area and none have ever looked like this.
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Long string of lights - hull shape The sky was pitch black. I saw a long string of lights, uniformly spaced in the western sky. The lights were moving slowly to the east.
As the lights passed overhead they disappeared and the sky returned to grey and stars were visible again I was able to briefly video on my phone but it seemed like it want permitting me to film.
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I was walking my dog and saw a long, tubular craft with lights I was walking my dog at 6:30p.m. in West Orange, NJ when I looked up to see the night sky and saw a long, tubular craft with lights (about 20) that moved toward one another and then away from each other.
There was a light in the front and one in the back and those were not moving. All the lights were white. It was moving slowly and headed in the of Montclair.
There was no noise nor were any lights flashing.
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MADAR Node 145 .
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Witness a triangular shaped object fly over my home on November 30, 2001 approximately 12:30-1:00 am. Crystal clear night sky. On November 30, 2021 at approximately 12:30 am - 1:00 am standing on my deck something caught my eye in the sky over my shoulder.
As I watched this object pass over my head and GLIDE through the sky I wasn’t sure what I was looking at. As I realized that this triangular shaped object was not making a sound as it drifted through the air. I was not alone but the person who was here did not move fast enough and the lights faded by the time he did it was to late.
He could see by my reaction what ever I had just seen really shook me up. I immediately drew what I saw. And found exactly what I had seen as I researched images.
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Seen while driving down the road. We were driving down the road we noticed a bright orb in the sky. This was seen from above the treeline behind Lake Aimes.
The orb was roughly 2-3 miles back and about 1200ft high. We checked the flight radar and nothing was there.
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MADAR Node 145 .
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Triangle shaped orange lights UFO(s) flew at the same time and speed in formation in Bayville NJ. Triangle shaped orange lights UFO(s) flew at the same time and speed in formation. I was pulling up to a friend's house in Bayville, New Jersey, at 7:29 pm when I noticed 3 orange lights (orbs) that formed a triangle all traveling at the same speed and at the same time in formation.
I was not sure if the triangle formation was 1 large sized craft with lights or if it was 3 separate crafts that were illuminated. 2 more were also following way behind. They also were pulsating or fading out similar to a candle or flame.
They or it, was producing no noise that I could here. No stars were visible at the time of this. These events lasted for about a minute- 1:30 seconds until they dimmed out completely and completely disappeared.
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Several have been just sitting and I think they are communicating to each other with their blinking I think this is their meeting place. I have been watching them for 2 weeks and I have plenty of video coverage.
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now this is not a joke for at about 10 o'clock on fri night I saw varied craft in the sky on the ground nd on the greenway in Edison nj now I don't know if they were real or not but they sure looked so. wire shaped balls triangles big huge behemoths ND OTHER ASSORTED CRAFT I ALSO OBSEERVED SMALL HUMUNAOIDS RIPPING APART A UTILITY SHED AND THEY POINTED SOME SORT OF RAY GUN AT ME I KNOW THIS SOUNDS WIERD BUT IT WAS CLEAR JD SHARP AND LIKE IT WAS VR. TO ME.
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An orange orb appeared in the southwest skies The night sky was darkened by clouds as a nor'easter was fast approaching. It disappeared quickly.
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Triangular shape in sky made with 5 ufos In eastern sky 5 lights shining in triangular shape 3 in the middle 2 on opposite sides , completely straight in triangular shape . I look at this sky every night out my bedroom window have never seen before .
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Five amber orbs seen slowly moving over northern NJ sky five days after similar sighting nearby As I walked out my front for to my car on the street out of the corner of my eye I saw a bright orange/amber light moving across the sky. It did not have hard edges so I believed it to be in the clouds. As someone who likes watching the ISS I stopped to watch it and quickly noted that it was 1) too big to be the ISS, 2) too orange to be the ISS, 3) moving too fast to be the ISS.
As soon as the first object (that is, the first one I saw) moved out of sight behind my home I saw flickering behind the trees and a second object made its way from behind the trees into the clearing, loving in the same direction as the first, at the same speed, but seemingly farther away. This repeated several times and I saw 5 objects in total. I was unable to film the one of the objects as it was behind the trees but seemingly below the horizon.
This object was not high enough to appear in the clearing. I did a quick Google and Twitter search and found Tweets and web posts from FOX23 NJ and PIX11 — both NYC-area news outlets. These posts were five days old (posted October 17, assumedly) and reported on a large cluster of similar objects over Paterson, NJ.
There was video of the event.
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colored light formation darting hovering over NY tristate I stepped outside alone to take out recycling. I saw was a flash of light. I looked up and there was a string of lights flashing, possibly changing color a bit-- the colors appeared to be purple, blue.
The shape was a formation of lights. It made different movements with alternating velocity-- wobbled, hovered, made sharp zig zag, then hurtled and disappeared. It sounded like there was a strange buzzing vibration like sound.
This link resembles what I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh-tCAY0u7I I am a 52-year old white (Jewish) divorced mother with three adolescent children.
We live about 10 miles west of NYC. I have a Master's degree in English, am a former a book editor, and a University of Michigan graduate. I do not have mental health or substance abuse issues.
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Two round balls of light sitting in the sky. While sitting outside I noticed two bright lights in the sky in front of me. They were round and bright, the one higher up was larger than the one below it.
They were just sitting there, blinking occasionally. I came in and watched them on the monitor. Then the little one starting moving away toward the trees and disappeared.
The big one started moving in same direction but kept going.
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Grey metallic like in color, circular in shape, my iPhone caught the object. Not in pictures right before or after it. I was walking on a PSEG bike trail that runs behind my home on October 21st 2021.
I reached an area where there is a large pond. I walked up to the ponds edge a began to take 3 quick pictures of the beautiful trees with there fall foliage. At that point I walked back home.
The next morning while drinking coffee, I began looking at the pictures I had taken. I expanded the pictures to get a better view of the trees and something in the upper right area of the second picture caught my eye. I never saw this with the naked eye.
I couldn’t believe it as I expanded the picture. I thought you may be interested. I would also like to mention that both the 1st photo and 3rd photo do not show this object.
When I took these pictures with my iPhone 11, it’s was a quick click, click, click. That’s why I said duration was 3 seconds.
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I'm a School Counselor in a public high school. I was driving on the NJ Garden State Parkway going south around 3:00PM. Around 3:10 I noticed a very bright object in the sky, it looked like descending shooting star or a meteor.
it was lingering in the sky but slowly descending. Soon after, I noticed two additional bright balls in the sky nearby. They were all near each other.
I actually called the Brick, NJ police station at 3:13 PM to ask whether others were reporting three bright objects next to each other in the sky. The operator said that if it was on the Parkway it would State Police jurisdiction, however I was driving and was unable to look up the phone number. The bright balls hovered near each other and slowly moved in docent directions.
I was able to follow two of them in the sky for about 20 minutes. I was able to take a few videos and photos of the objects.
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Pulsating green light I shined my long range laser pointer at it and it started it to descend slowly and there was no noise at all I watched it till it went behind some trees and disappeared oh before all of that it was just hovering no more then a 1000ft or so like I said once I shined the laser at it then it started moving.
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 15 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Light | 9 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Other | 9 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Triangle | 8 reported sightings | 10.26% of all reports |
Sphere | 7 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2021 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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October | 11 reported sightings | 14.10% of all reports |
July | 9 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
May | 8 reported sightings | 10.26% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
August | 7 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
January | 7 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
September | 6 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
November | 5 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
April | 5 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
December | 5 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
June | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
February | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 17 reported sightings | 21.79% of all reports |
Wednesday | 15 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Monday | 15 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Sunday | 10 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
Thursday | 10 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
Friday | 6 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Tuesday | 5 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2021 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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12/04/21 | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
09/19/21 | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
01/11/21 | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
01/02/21 | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
05/19/21 | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
New Jersey UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 25 reported sightings | 32.05% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 19 reported sightings | 24.36% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 12 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 11 reported sightings | 14.10% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 7 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
All New Jersey Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in New Jersey, in 2021
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.