As UFOs 'Arrive' In News, See Latest Galloway Sighting

GALLOWAY, NJ — UFO sightings never really left the news, but they’ve arguably never been more prevalent. Navy pilots recently spoke of seeing mysterious objects — with no discernible engine or exhaust fumes — flying at hypersonic speeds.

President Donald Trump recently said he was briefed on UFOs. A group of Senate lawmakers received a classified briefing this week about such objects. And let’s not get started on that strange Facebook video that seems to show a creepy-looking alien doing some sort of jig down someone’s driveway.

Virginia Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Warner wants answers on UFOs, whether it’s “weather balloons, little green men, or something else entirely,” Rachel Cohen, his spokeswoman, told CNN. And the Navy has drafted guidelines to allow pilots to report UFOs, and so that the military can track them, though the military branch prefers not to use the term “UFO.”

“So, we don’t actually use that term,” Joseph Gradisher, a spokesman for the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told Patch this week. “We use ‘Unmanned Aerial System.’”
The term, shortened to UAS, refers to things like recreational flying drones people can buy at a store. For the “other” things, the Navy uses the term UAP, meaning “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.”

“We constitute anything unknown or unidentified in the airspace as an ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon,’ no matter what it is,” he said.

In that spirit, Patch took a peek at the most recent UFO — or UAP, if you prefer — sighting in Galloway and New Jersey as a whole using a database compiled by the National UFO Reporting Center. Spoiler alert: So far, no little green men have been seen running around.

Galloway, April 13, 2018

Summary: A resident a bright light making strange movements in the sky.

"At 8:45 p.m., I walked outside and noticed what I thought were two bright stars next to each other in the sky, right then the one blinked out," the resident reported. "I was a little shocked. It then blinked back on just below where it had been. Then it fired up a bit like an Iridium flare, but it wasn’t moving, then blinked out again and moved lower in the sky, blinked on again, then out, then on and back in the original position. I opted to run and get a camera when I got back out I only saw one faint light and a pale blue light dropping from it which I was unable to photograph in time. Then nothing there at all. Stayed a little while, but they didn’t come back. Way too high to be drones. I do a lot of sky watching and hope someone else saw these, very cool."

Duration: 5 minutes

Sicklerville, June 18, 2019

Summary: Objects were in groups 6-8 Seem to be oval in shape Orange light or beam was on the objects Objects were floating in groups

Duration: 30 minutes

According to data compiled by the Center, there were nearly 500 sightings across the country in May and more than 300 in January, March and April. The Sicklerville sighting is the most recent sighting logged by the trackers,

The Navy seems convinced of the existence of UFOs, telling POLITICO in a statement there were reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft “entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years.”

“For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report,” the statement said.

And Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress, told The New York Times last month he was one of multiple pilots who saw UFOs. The pilots began seeing the objects in 2014 and 2015 after receiving upgraded equipment.

Initially they believed they were getting bad readings.But the sightings kept happening, showing up at 30,000 feet, 20,000 feet and even at sea level. The objects could speed up, slow down and then reach hypersonic speeds.

“These things would be out there all day,” he said. “Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”

Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report.