Pentagon Releases New UFO Report; See Latest Reported Sightings In NJ

In its 63-page report, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office offered numerous other explanations for the strange sightings in the sky. “Investigative efforts determined that most sightings were the result of misidentification of ordinary objects and phenomena,” according to the report of “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP.

More than 40 percent of Americans think UFOs are alien spacecraft from other planets or galaxies. The report from AARO, as the bureau investigating unidentified aerial phenomena is known, acknowledged that many people “sincerely hold versions of these beliefs” as truth.

The report noted a consistent theme in popular culture is that the U.S. government, or a secretive organization within it, “recovered several off-world spacecraft and extraterrestrial biological remains, that it operates a program or programs to reverse engineer the recovered technology, and that it has conspired since the 1940s to keep this effort hidden from the United States Congress and the American public.”

So, what is the explanation for sightings New Jersey residents have reported to the crowdsourced National UFO Reporting Center about strange sightings over Garden State skies? Here’s a glimpse into what they’ve seen:

• Seen at 8:45 p.m. on Nov. 16, 2023 in Bedminster: “It looked like it was landing.»
• Seen at 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 8, 2023 in Middletown: “Seeming shapeshifter and blinking light moving around randomly in localized area of space.»
• Seen at 8:28 p.m. on Nov. 5, 2023 in Hamilton: “Object was briefly stationary, before traveling in an apparent fish hook shape. Then vanished.»
• Seen at 8:15 p.m. on Nov. 1, 2023 in Toms River: “Two orbs spinning clockwise parallel from each other stop when horizontal spread out farther and disappear [sic].»
• Seen at 8:03 p.m. on Oct. 13, 2023 in Hasbrouck Heights: “Swarm of 12-15 light orange lights flying slowly towards the southwest.»
• Seen at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 9, 2023 in Manchester: “Saw a large circular object dark orange to red in color flying across the sky from north to south.»
• Seen at 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 14, 2023 in Eastampton: “Very bright, reddish-color light in the sky, start and stop swaying motion, then dropped straight down toward horizon and disappeared.»

Although many UFO reports remain unsolved, “most of these cases could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena” if additional, reliable data were available, the AARO report said.

For example, the unidentified object may be a satellite or other data-gathering craft developed in secret by the government or private industry, the report noted.