UFO Sightings in New Jersey
2,697 UFO sightings reported in New Jersey since 1950, peaking in 2019 (193 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 2,697
- Span
- 1950–2030
- Peak year
- 2019 (193 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1950–2030 · peak 2019 (193 reports)
Top cities in New Jersey
Toms River
1962–2022 · peak 2013 (6 reports)
Brick
1980–2021 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
Newark
1950–2022 · peak 2013 (3 reports)
Edison
1967–2021 · peak 2012 (4 reports)
Jersey City
1980–2021 · peak 2000 (3 reports)
Jackson
1975–2018 · peak 2004 (4 reports)
Clifton
1989–2022 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Norwood
2019–2022 · peak 2019 (23 reports)
Atlantic City
1991–2020 · peak 2008 (4 reports)
Cherry Hill
1968–2020 · peak 2014 (9 reports)
Howell
1995–2021 · peak 2020 (5 reports)
Bridgewater
2000–2020 · peak 2005 (4 reports)
North Bergen
1981–2020 · peak 2009 (4 reports)
Freehold
1986–2019 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Woodbridge
1974–2021 · peak 2015 (3 reports)
Wayne
1975–2022 · peak 2003 (2 reports)
Bayonne
2001–2020 · peak 2016 (3 reports)
Paterson
1957–2019 · peak 1980 (2 reports)
Carteret
1960–2014 · peak 2001 (14 reports)
Elizabeth
1966–2020 · peak 2008 (3 reports)
Nortvale · NJ, USA
Triangle over Hudson River.
Galloway · NJ, USA
Bright light at high alt. traveling at very high rate of speed over Galloway NJ from S to N. ((NUFORC Note: Iridium flare? PD))
Rossmoor · NJ, USA
Mom and I witnessed a white light in sky descend and vanish within a second.
Manahawkin (?) · NJ, USA
3 round bright firery objects..
Edison · NJ, USA
Me and my girlfriend were driving down the highway around 9:30pm, when I looked to the right and saw headlights(high beams)hovering jus
Morganville · NJ, USA
Slow moving diamond shaped object moving SW at 6:15am in early light.
Watchung · NJ, USA
BRIGHT LITES, OVER DISK, 300FT. ACROSS, HOVERING IN THE SKY.
Estelle Manor · NJ, USA
Fast traveling white object.
Unknown · NJ, USA
Fireball seen over I-195 in NJ, coming down at incredible rate of speed.
Monmouth County · NJ, USA
Same as minneapolis - but 1 year prior
Butler · NJ, USA
Red, white, bluish green pulsating light.
Long Hill Township · NJ, USA
Two bright orange fiery objects appeared at the same time and traveled at the same moderate speed before disappearing.
Newton · NJ, USA
Pulsating red blue and green lights changing to bright white and covering huge distances in the sky in the blink of an eye leaving a li
Robbinsville · NJ, USA
Two bright orbs of red lights and silence !
Ocean View · NJ, USA
Observed 3 red-orange objects in a trianglur formatation hovering in evening sky.
Hamilton · NJ, USA
Fireball glide across the sky, stop at a certain point and hover for several seconds then fade out and disappear. This happened 3 sepa
Manahawkin · NJ, USA
Still in the sky north or manahawkin - flashing lights not moving position.
Wildwood · NJ, USA
Two orange yellow balls of light approached the coast,dimmed, then accelerated along the coast to thenortheast.
Cape May · NJ, USA
Large cluster of red orbs.
Ocean City · NJ, USA
Red and green flashing lights object moved in and out of clouds and stopped then just green lights flashed. object moved around and bot
Keyport · NJ, USA
My brother and I witnessed 3 lights in the sky lined up in a triangle and they would brighten and then diminish. The lights would move
Wall · NJ, USA
Orange ball of light in the sky.
Deal · NJ, USA
Walking on the beach at night where one sees many flights going into New York City, I suddenly noticed some lights that were moving.
Monroe Township · NJ, USA
5 Orange fireballs over Central New Jersey
Woolwich Twp · NJ, USA
Slow hovering object, making strange humming noise with blinking red and white lights down the center