Formation of UFOs sighted 30
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By: Patrick J. Kiger
Published June 8, 2012
Multiple witnesses,
including a local off-duty police officer, watched in wonder as an array of
yellow lights flew in formation in suburban New Jersey near New York City late
in the evening of July 14, 2001 into the early morning of the following day.
Carteret police told the
Record, a Bergen, NJ newspaper, that they received 15 calls from local
residents who saw the UFOs, which appeared in the sky just after 12:30 a.m.
that morning. The sight was so startling that about 75 drivers took the highly
unusual step of pulling off the turnpike and parking their cars on the shoulder
so that they could watch.
The earliest witness to the
UFOs seems to be one who filed an anonymous report with the National UFO
Reporting Center. The witness, who was driving across the Throgs Neck Bridge
toward New York at between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., suddenly noticed seven lights
in the sky, including six which were very close together and seemed as if they
were not moving. The object by itself was larger and brighter than the
rest. As the witness drove across the bridge, the objects suddenly
vanished, as mysteriously as they had appeared.
A short time later, at
around 12:30 a.m., another witness, Carteret police Lt. Dan Tarrant, reportedly
received a call at home from his 19-year-old daughter, who was out with friends
and had seen strange lights in the sky. Tarrant told the Record and ABC News
that he then stepped outside to take a look.
As Tarrant subsequently told
ABC News, what he saw was astounding: “16 golden-orange colored lights,
several in a V-type formation. Others were scattered around the V."
Tarrant told the Record that
the mysterious lights flashed across the sky for about 10 minutes, then faded one-by-one
into darkness.
"We see airplanes
passing overhead all the time from Newark Airport," Tarrant told the
Record. "No, these weren't airplanes."
U.S. government officials
and air traffic control at nearby Newark Airport told the Record that there were
no space launches or military flights that would explain the phenomenon.
Numerous witnesses—including
more than 20 New Jersey residents who filed anonymous reports with NUFORC, and
several who gave on-the-record media interviews—also saw the lights. They
observed the UFOs for time periods ranging from a few minutes to an hour,
though the typical sighting was 15 to 12 minutes long. Though some
details of their descriptions varied, most hewed fairly closely to what Tarrant
had seen.
One local resident, 38-year-old
Paulette Holmes, told the Record she was leaving a party at a club in Carteret
when she noticed the strange objects in the sky. She described the formation of
lights as bright yellow, rather than the orange described by Tarrant, and said
that the objects moved across the skin in a zig-zag pattern for 10 minutes in a
southeastern direction before vanishing.
“I can’t really explain what
I saw,” said Holmes, who “You had to see it.” Another witness, who filed an
anonymous report with MUFORC, described seeing 12 to 18 “yellowish-orange”
lights, moving in formation parallel to the New Jersey Turnpike. The objects
flew through the sky for 10 minutes, gradually veering away from the witness.
“The lights appeared to move
in concert, or in a pack, there was smaller movement between some of the
lights, like individual objects speeding up to keep up with each other and/or
slowing down to avoid getting too close,” the witness observed. The
objects did not make a sound.
Though the witness had
observed small planes aloft in the darkness before, these objects were
distinguishable by their extreme brightness. “No small plane I had ever seen
before at night had ever been lit up like this,” the witness wrote.
"It was one of the most
amazing things I've ever seen," another eyewitness, Joe Malvasio, told ABC
News. "They were just hovering, and then they just disappeared. One at a
time, each one started to fade until they were gone."
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