State Report
UFO Sightings in New Jersey
4,474 sightings on record from 1930 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
4,474
Share of US total
2.09%
Peak year
2013
316 reports
Top shape
Light
748 reports
Years active
93
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-25 | Lake Como | circle | 10 minutes | When taking a picture of the moon I noticed a dark line in the sky. I snapped another pic and saw a red light at the end... |
| 2023-11-19 | Shamong | egg | 30 seconds | Silver egg-shaped reflective object heading south at dusk at an usually slow speed for its altitude |
| 2023-11-16 | Bedminster | oval | 10 seconds | It looked like it was landing |
| 2023-11-13 | South Brunswick Township | unknown | 1 minute | A slow moving point of light, traveling west on clear conditions at high altitude. |
| 2023-11-08 | Middletown Township | changing | 30 seconds | Seeming shapeshifter and blinking light moving around randomly in localized area of space |
| 2023-11-05 | Hamilton | orb | Less than one minute. | Object was briefly stationary, before traveling in an apparent fish hook shape. Then vanished. |
| 2023-11-03 | Mansfield | light | 9 seconds maximum | Two alternating red blinking lines, each in shape of short line segment, moved together, in the same direction as their... |
| 2023-11-02 | Washington | sphere | Roughly 3 minutes | Shiny silver sphere reflecting the setting sun moved south away from my viewpoint |
| 2023-11-02 | Jersey City | orb | 45 minutes | We have been seeing a white orb along the orbit of Venus nearly all day and night. |
| 2023-11-01 | Jackson | diamond | Approximately 90 minutes | The object was picked up on my ring. Which I thought odd and assumed it was possibly someone's drone until I saw the... |
| 2023-10-28 | manchester | circle | 3 minutes maximum | orange ring blinking, does loop de loop then disappears |
| 2023-10-21 | Hopewell Township | orb | 1.5 hours | noted orbs in and out of the clouds as if looking for something and then going into a pattern of 4 that kept changing... |
| 2023-10-15 | North Arlington | circle | 23 seconds | I have a home security camera placed in my bedroom window I have 2 short video clips of a circle shape object with... |
| 2023-10-13 | Hasbrouck Heights | circle | 15 minutes | Bright circular light fairy close. Took a photo out of curiosity as it was stationary and had no sound |
| 2023-10-13 | Spotswood | light | 5 minutes | Swarm of 12-15 lights with a slight orange or red glow flying at a medium slow pace to the southwest. All lights were... |
| 2023-10-09 | Manchester | circle | 5 to 10 min | Saw a large circular object dark orange to red in color flying across the sky from north to south |
| 2023-10-08 | Parsippany | unknown | Seconds | Unknown light seen in sky |
| 2023-10-03 | Town of Carmel outside of the City of Millville | chevron | 1-2 min | A UFO chevron shaped three swirling lights hovering without moving much sound, larger than my car, low flying and moving... |
| 2023-09-28 | West Deptford | sphere | ?4:20 am-4:35 still in pl | UAP steady on the sky for 14 minutes of my driving . |
| 2023-09-21 | Hammonton | formation | 1 min | Lights disappeared one by one |