Do You Believe? 13 Alleged UFO Sightings Around Barnegat

BARNEGAT, NJ — The Jersey Shore's population swells up at certain times of year, but those visitors are terrestrial, as far as we know. Several people have described UFO sightings in the Barnegat area over the years to the National UFO Reporting Center.

The New York Times recently reported that Navy pilots observed unidentified flying objects "almost daily" between 2014-15, including one that resembled a "spinning top moving against the wind." No official explanation exists for the consistent sightings, but a Navy spokesperson told the Times a few of them could have been unlicensed drones.

The NUFORC is an independent organization that's been around since 1974. The group, which has assisted police departments when people report their observations to 911, has put together a list of more than 90,000 sightings around the world. Anyone can submit a potential sighting to NUFORC, but they omit clear jokes and hoaxes.

Here are NUFORC's records on the Barnegat area's alleged UFO sightings through the years:

1. 3/16/19, 8 p.m.: Witness first noticed two lights widely spaced apart, greater than the width of planes that fly by. It was roughly 200 feet long by estimated 40 feet wide. "These estimations could be off due to perspective against the night sky. It was both amazing and terrifying at same time. It was moving relatively slow. 100% not plane or drone."
2. 6/10/18, 1:15 a.m.: Observer witnessed four jet fighters in the sky being very very loud. Event lasted around 45 mins.
3. 11/7/15, 1:50 a.m.: Witness saw a huge craft with several blinking red lights (two at a time). It was cigar-shaped and longer than a football field, traveling from Waretown toward Manahawkin.
4. 9/6/15, 8 p.m.: Three fireballs aligned in perfect symmetrical shapes such as a pyramid and then a perfect line.
5. 9/27/14, 11 p.m.: Looking in the north sky a string of blinking lights blue white yellow not moving position in the sky for the last 30 mins and still there. Random flashing. Sometimes two or three or more but close in a band shape. Lights dim and get brighter.
6. 9/14/14, 8:30 a.m.: Witness noticed one bright orange red circular object traveling slow. Then a minute later another, and another minute another. All three disappeared.
7. 6/14/14, time unlisted: Color changing disc 30 minute duration making unusual movements. Object hovered over local fireworks show changing color and moving from a stationary position to moving up and down in a liniar path to a 90 degree path.
8. 4/26/14, 11:30 p.m.: Illuminated fast-moving objects in triangle formation moving low across night sky.
9. 10/21/13, 9 p.m.: Object appearing to be burning flew low at a constant speed and altitude.
10. 11/25/12, 8:07 p.m.: "I initially thought it was a satellite as it appeared stationary. While not seeing any movement for approx 45 secs, the light began to move NE. I grabbed a pair of 7 x 50 binoculars and observed the lights as they appeared to flash randomly and in green red and white, The object was fixed dead center in by field of vision, but would "dart" in unpredictable areas within my field of view and at great velocity. I watched this for several minutes when the lights vanished what I would estimate over the ocean off of Long Beach Island."
11. 5/5/11, 11 p.m.: Two red blinking lights, then disappearance. Seemed to hover and not move at all for a while, then moved slowly.
12. 8/30/10, 3 p.m.: Shiny metallic upside down cone shaped object over Jersey Shore.
13. 10/12/79, 12:45 a.m.: Observer witnessed one object moving east to west across Route 539 4 miles north of Rt.72 near the Fire Tower. Witness called McGuire Air Force Tower and they said had no aircraft in the area.

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