NUFORC Sighting 153793

Occurred: 2020-03-02 20:15 Local
Reported: 2020-03-03 14:22 Pacific
Duration: ~30 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Jersey City, NJ, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby, Landed

Bright light surrounded by small lights, all change color and move in an strange manner.

Two witnesses: One 32 year old man who is a pharmacist, and one 34 year old man who is an operations manager for a commercial real estate company.

I live in Jersey City, NJ on the 8th floor of a building. My large windows face west with minimal obstruction from buildings or trees. The other witness spotted a bright light in the sky and told me to look at it (I’m a sky gazer and am familiar with the typical star layout – which isn’t much since we’re so close to NYC). I walked to the window to check it out, and it looked exactly like a bright star. But it was red and has also never been there before.

I grabbed my binoculars, which are high powered, to take a look on the balcony. The red light had about 5 or 6 smaller lights above it in a circular or possibly a hexagonal pattern, which were not visible to the naked eye. The large light almost looked like it was jiggling a bit as if it was like a ball of jello. Newark airport is nearby and I regularly watch the planes take off and land. I have a real-time app on my phone to track all of the planes in the area since I find it interesting. This object was not on the radar.

After a few minutes of watching, it was clear that this wasn’t an aircraft that the average person is familiar with by any means. Both the main bright light and the smaller lights above/surrounding it changed colors several times. They were usually red and green, but sometimes white.

The smaller lights above the main large light initially were stationary but then would start spinning in a bizarre manner as the “UFO” started moving or changing directions. Left, right, forward, backward, ascending, descending. All directions. The object landed on the ground in the distance behind a building. I’m not sure how far away it was though. It went straight down to the ground and straight back up on two occasions.

I tried to capture a video with my iPhone while also looking through the binoculars because I couldn’t take my eyes off of it, but the iPhone video does no justice. Although, in the video you can see the general movement of the light in the sky as well as the larger light changing in color.

I have a few iPhone videos about 60-90 seconds long. In one of the videos there is a 2nd green light that looks almost orb-like that jumps around on its own and moves across the screen – I’m not sure if it’s related or not, but my phone was steady and the light moved around in an odd manner. While watching the videos in slow motion, there are other strange light movements that I originally didn’t notice. At one point there appears to be a slight trail of a light moving by quickly.

I'm going to forward the videos and a map of my location to ufocntr@nwlink.com

Posted 2020-04-09

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