9/24/2003: Hoboken, NJ, USA

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Occurred : 9/24/2003 20:01 (Entered as : 09/24/2003 20:01) Reported: 9/25/2003 2:35:01 PM 14:35 Posted: 9/28/2003 Location: Hoboken, NJ Shape: Circle Duration: 20 seconds Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
Bright whitish blue stationary light, 15º north, 10º west of immediate overhead view. Object twice as bright as Mars. Object suddenly increased in luminosity while stationary. Commutor plane passes underneath. Object rapidly moves slightly to the north and mostly upwards. Object becomes smaller and smaller until it is a barely visible dot of light higher up in sky. Within 5 seconds, from a stationary point, object became unviewable as it was lost in the dark sky above. ((NUFORC Note: Report is consistent, we believe, with a sighting of a "flare" reflection form Iridium satellite #16. Please see entry from below: Iridium Flares \| Home \| Prev. \| Next \| Help \| Clicking on the time of the flare will load another page with more details, including a map showing the track of the flare along the ground, and the location of the nearest point of maximum intensity. Search Period Start: 16:48, Tuesday, 23 September, 2003 Search Period End: 17:48, Thursday, 25 September, 2003 Observer's Location: Hoboken ( 40.7440°N, 74.0330°W) Local Time: Eastern Daylight Time (GMT - 4:00) Date Local Time Intensity ( Mag) Alt. Azimuth Distance to flare centre Intensity at flare centre (Mag.) Satellite 23 Sep 20:04:15 -1 37° 3° (N ) 24.4 km (W) -8 Iridium 12 24 Sep 19:58:05 -5 39° 5° (N ) 6.4 km (W) -8 Iridium 16 Developed and maintained by Chris Peat, Heavens-Above GmbH ((END))

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report

Occurred : 9/24/2003 20:01 (Entered as : 09/24/2003 20:01)
Reported: 9/25/2003 2:35:01 PM 14:35
Posted: 9/28/2003
Location: Hoboken, NJ
Shape: Circle
Duration: 20 seconds
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There was an aura or haze around the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object

Bright whitish blue stationary light, 15º north, 10º west of immediate overhead view. Object twice as bright as Mars. Object suddenly increased in luminosity while stationary. Commutor plane passes underneath. Object rapidly moves slightly to the north and mostly upwards. Object becomes smaller and smaller until it is a barely visible dot of light higher up in sky. Within 5 seconds, from a stationary point, object became unviewable as it was lost in the dark sky above.

((NUFORC Note: Report is consistent, we believe, with a sighting of a "flare" reflection form Iridium satellite #16. Please see entry from below:

Iridium Flares | Home | Prev. | Next | Help |

Clicking on the time of the flare will load another page with more details,
including a map showing the track of the flare along the ground, and the
location of the nearest point of maximum intensity.

Search Period Start: 16:48, Tuesday, 23 September, 2003
Search Period End: 17:48, Thursday, 25 September, 2003
Observer's Location: Hoboken ( 40.7440°N, 74.0330°W)
Local Time: Eastern Daylight Time (GMT - 4:00)

Date Local Time Intensity ( Mag) Alt. Azimuth Distance to flare centre Intensity at flare centre (Mag.) Satellite
23 Sep 20:04:15 -1 37° 3° (N ) 24.4 km (W) -8 Iridium 12
24 Sep 19:58:05 -5 39° 5° (N ) 6.4 km (W) -8 Iridium 16

Developed and maintained by Chris Peat, Heavens-Above GmbH

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