THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT
Date: July 15, 2001
Sighting Time: 12:20 AM- 12:30 AM
Day/Night: Night
Location: Carteret, New Jersey
Urban or Rural: -Urban
Hynek Classification: CE-I (Close Encounter I) Observation of an object in close proximity to the witness (i.e. within 500’)
Duration: about 10 minutes
No. of Object(s):
Height & Speed:
Size of Object(s): Large
Distance to Object(s):
Shape of Object(s): triangle
Color of Object(s): bright lights
Number of Witnesses: Multiple
Source:
Summary/Description: A large UFO was sighted near the Newark Airport on July 15, 2001.Numerous large, bright lights were reported in a flying triangle pattern moving above the New Jersey Turnpike around 12:30 AM on Sunday morning July 15, 2001. Multiple lights in different patterns, multiple eyewitnesses. Made ABC News (video).
Carteret police Lt. Dan Tarrant saw a “string of bright yellow lights that flashed in a V-formation for about 10 minutes, then faded one-by-one into darkness.”
US space officials say the lights were not from the orbiting space station or shuttle, or anything else that can be explained. Likewise, officials at Newark International Airport and at area military bases say they didn’t receive any reports of odd planes passing overhead or pilots seeing strange lights.
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