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)
West Milford · NJ, USA
I don't care if people believe me I am just telling a true story that I'm freaking out over (all I watch are space shows)
Clark · NJ, USA
Cigar shaped brightly lit craft glided well below a departing airplane.
Washington · NJ, USA
Bright light rockets into space after gliding above myself and fellow companions.
Upper Freehold Township · NJ, USA
High speed illuminated object traveling above treetops.
Sicklerville · NJ, USA
Flashing lights swirling in the night. ((NUFORC Note: Venus in the western sky?? Date is flawed. Possible hoax. PD))
Sicklerville · NJ, USA
flashing lights swirling in the night. ((NUFORC Note: From witness #2. Possible sighting of Venus?? PD))
Alloway · NJ, USA
Unexplained lights and movement were spotted in the sky above my friends house.
Spring lake · NJ, USA
Object in sky no sound, red lights. Slow moving.
Brielle · NJ, USA
Egg-shaped object in sky moving in semi circle way, Has craters or holes through the object. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))
Paterson · NJ, USA
7/30/2010/ 9:30-11:30pm/Sighting over Paterson NJ Two Satellite Looking Objects; Second Objects Lights Up For A Moment Then Dims Again
Jersey City · NJ, USA
I saw an erratic flying object with a red blinking light. It was traveling west to east in the northern sky. It flew straight for a sho
Hewitt · NJ, USA
White spec of light high up in sky that brightly flashes & disappears
Cape May Courthouse · NJ, USA
dimly lit disc shaped object flying east to west makes a hard 70degree turn at unimaginable speed
Cape May Courthouse · NJ, USA
object with one flashing white light flying very erratically moves impossibly fast in impossible fashion
Trenton · NJ, USA
green lights moving at high speed over trenton new jersey.
Kendall Park · NJ, USA
I looked to the right of my backyard and saw a oval shaped object in the sky
Eatontown · NJ, USA
Bright, very brief streak of light on Rt 18 North Near Eatontown. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD))
Howell · NJ, USA
Round ,Black and silent
Pleasantville · NJ, USA
Lights in the Sky
Pleasantville · NJ, USA
Star-like object in the sky.
Knowlton · NJ, USA
~A close friend and I were outside; observed a bright object in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Venus? PD)
Bayonne · NJ, USA
A strange light/object that accelerated and changed altitude suddenly.
Bloomfield--Hillside · NJ, USA
A UFO Sighting over Hillside/Union, NJ, May, 2010.
West Trenton · NJ, USA
Static bright light witnessed on two separate nights. ((NUFORC Note: If in the NW sky, probably Venus. PD))
Somers Point · NJ, USA
I went outside to look at Venus and the Crescent Moon and caught a look at a light that appeared to be an airplane. I followed the lig