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)
Califon · NJ, USA
Egg-shaped craft moving slowly, descended below horizon the headed away to WestObserved with telescope a stationary cylindrical obj
Marlton · NJ, USA
High flying object seen traveling at a high rate of speed.
Brigantine · NJ, USA
Enlarging the digital images showed what appeared to be in shape of a saucer like object.
Garfield · NJ, USA
bright white like a star
Keansburg · NJ, USA
I was outside with my dog, in NJ, when I noticed a white light through the trees. It was high up in the sky, but in the horizon. As it
Fairlawn · NJ, USA
A flashing light in the sky
Manalapan · NJ, USA
Foggy white diamond shaped object spotted in sky before fading away.
Beach Haven · NJ, USA
What at first looked like a star, at 20 - 30 degrees off the horizon, was zig zagging and jumping up and down but didn't seem to be co
Rockaway · NJ, USA
Two moving stars
NJ Turnpike · NJ, USA
WHILE DRIVING ON THE NEW JERSY TURN PIKE I SAW THREE UFOS.
Williamstown/Hammonton · NJ, USA
Multiple Triangle crafts spotted on the Atlantic City Expressway
Newark · NJ, USA
I live in Kearny, NJ. Yesterday me and my wife saw something which we could not classify as an ordinary event. About 11.30 PM I came to
Brigantine · NJ, USA
I went outside to smoke a cigarette and I was standing on my front porch and I looked up and saw a large pure white light. It was perfe
Wall · NJ, USA
An object traveling from the North to the South in less than a second and had zigzagged at one point, than flew off.
Howell · NJ, USA
Silver disk at low altitude , Howell , N.J.
Hudson Bay (?) · NJ, USA
FLASH of light along the water!
Paramus · NJ, USA
Three unknown objects maneuver, pulse, then fade out on a clear July night over northern New Jersey.
Atlantic · NJ, USA
UFO Seen Over Atlantic (Ocean) on the same night as major new jersey sighting last year.
Port Liberte · NJ, USA
At 3:20 am I noticed a few lights flashing and as it got closer it was like a rapid flashing of the light starting with dim lights then
Cliffwood · NJ, USA
round shiny silver disk shape object flying in sky, it was a clear day.
West Long Branch · NJ, USA
thin disk, jagged edges, orange lights
Oldbridge · NJ, USA
Strance object with semi transparent oval shape around it moving from 0 to about 700mph in about 10 seconds and a distance of over 80m
Bloomingdale · NJ, USA
Redish-Orange light, zigzag movement, no sound.. VERY STRANGE
Dover · NJ, USA
I had an eerie interaction with some extraterrestrial life forms inside of their space craft.
North Haledon · NJ, USA
A red ball of fire, watches us, then dives away.