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)
Ship's Bottom · NJ, USA
Object seen 11PM, Aug., 1962 or 1963 over ocean, Ship's Bottom, NJ.
Avon-by-the-Sea · NJ, USA
Approached by a small orange light. Light changed to a large cicular object.
Toms River · NJ, USA
Round, dark disk shaped object with lights all around it softly whirred by, hovering overhead for a few moments and then moved on.
Whitehouse (near) · NJ, USA
Bright light, "electrical sensation" and missing time.
McGuire AFB · NJ, USA
Two sightings - one a green ball, the other either one or four red fireballs.
Carteret · NJ, USA
Cigar shapped object made no sounds, moved slowly overhead and then with tremendous speed vanished
Watchung · NJ, USA
Cigar shaped object, reddish brown that hummed overhead with hieroglyphics like writing in Watchung New Jersey.
New Jersey (southern) · NJ, USA
Cigar shaped object dropped pieces of heated metal. I acquired one of the pieces in 1962. Photograph to follow.
Mendham · NJ, USA
A saucer-shaped UFO hovered at eye-level about fifty feet away for five minutes, then took off at great speed.
Trenton · NJ, USA
Diamond shaped craft hovers in sky near hospital then speeds away when I went to take a picture.
Teaneck · NJ, USA
Cylinder UFO followed by disc seen in fall of 1957 over northern New Jersey
Paterson · NJ, USA
Formation of approximately 8 light gray metallic disks silently crossing the night sky around October 1957 in northern NJ
Phillipsburg · NJ, USA
cigar shaped, after nightfall, Phillipsburg NJ, witnesses
Salem · NJ, USA
We walked out side during supper, woke up standing in the back yard, then I saw 5 of them watching me.
New Brunswick · NJ, USA
Four Saucers, over the City of New Brunswick, NJ, in the summer of 1956
Beach Haven Park · NJ, USA
3 women hanging clothes saw a UFO come down over bay, hover for 30 sec.,then take off so fast it seemed to disappear.
Red Bank · NJ, USA
Bright orange light, about the size of a pea at arms length, moving slowly from the west to NE. I was a soldier, stationed at Ft. Monm
Keansburg · NJ, USA
In November, 1953, at 0300, a silvery sphere moves slowly overhead, changes direction, and disappears over the horizon.
Sandy Hook/Highlands · NJ, USA
Triangles over New York Harbor 1950
Newark · NJ, USA
As a student of astronomy, this writer witnessed ufo's performing astounding aerial maneuvers. Silent propulsion. Technical performance
Harding · NJ, USA
Round small yellow saucer idled in/above the water behind us, with a second small object hovering over my girlfriends shoulder.
Atlantic City · NJ, USA
Observed a very bright white saucer (had two legs as if it was about to land) bright lights, then the left leg of the saucer was green