Size of Object(s)

10-20 feet per singular light

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

500-1,000 feet?

Shape of Object(s)

Perfectly round/soft

Color of Object(s):

white

Full Description & Details

This past fall, I came in from somewhere close to our children's bedtime. It was still fairly warm out, because I stayed out for a while looking at these lights.

We live about 15 miles west of Newark Airport and about 5 miles from Morris County Airport. We see planes having just taken off and about to land all the time, helicopters too, but I had not ever seen anything like this. I have seen "attention /publicity lights" (sorry - don't know what they are called), when a club is open - or when a big event is happening, but these were not like this. There was no light source coming from the ground making a stream from ground to sky. I have also seen the flashing lights at Morris County Airport, on a foggy nights. This was not like those either however, it was overcast out, with some clouds visibly formed.

I noticed a set of four softly glowing round white lights right above our house - seemingly just level with the inside of the clouds/somehow "inside" the clouds/fog. This formation was about 200-400 feet in diameter. It was about the altitude of a landing plane - near the local airport.

This formation made a definite pattern. The 2 pairs of the lights would cross and rotate in a slow to fast type motion - almost like how the velocity of the "tilt-a-whirl" gets as those cars are spinning. It never changed the diameter of itself. It was constant and perfect. It was a clover type pattern....At one point I called my mother to describe what I was looking at - and I started to count out the pattern - like the timing of a song (I'm a musician). It stayed right above my house and to the left of our house over the neighbors yard too.

I kept looking for some justification of this being a logically explained happening. I kept looking for the ground to air stream of light one sees with those event lights. I kept listening for some noise of hovering, as it would be a helicopter, or some kind of plane....There was no noise. I knew it would not have been airport lights because we are too far away.



Not only was there this one formation of lights - but at least 2-3 others exactly the same that I could see to the west of our house appearing to go as far on the horizon as Randolph/Washington Valley - or perhps curving a bit north towards Greystone/Denville.

I was pretty freaked out enough to call the police and report it, which they had claimed other people had called in mentioning the same thing. The police also said there were no big events/openings which would rule out the "publicity" lights. I called my mother in South Jersey, my friend Mike down in Stirling (NJ) to see if he saw anything as far away as there (about 15 miles S/E). These lights were around for about 1 - 1 /2 hours. My husband saw them too and went across the street to the neighbor's house. (Our neighbor is on the fire squad and has a scanner - so, we thought he'd be a good person to confide in this - as to what could possibly be going on.) I think my son saw the lights too.

I went out in the yard with a flashlight and tried to "signal" the lights to see if they would change and they did not. (NOT that I would have ANY desire for a "UFO" to plop down in my neighborhood...) I also went in the front yard around the block to see how far away the other formations looked...As it got to be a bit later...the clouds started to lift, the stars peeked out, and the lights disappeared.

It was truly odd. Strangely enough, I think I had seen something similar to this near my grandmother's house in Shark River NJ, when I was about 17. I just chalked it up to coincidence of some airplane/publicity lights, having been so young.

Witness Background

BS, Art Education, SUNY New Paltz, 1991 /MA Montclair State University 2,000. Visual Arts Instructor/Art History Teacher - Morris Hills Regional School District Musician/performer - The Lost Patrol

Other Comments

I'd rather not have my town address/name put on the site - if you could put "Morris County area" because of my job as a public school educator, I'd deeply appreciate it. I'd be willing to talk /write more about my experience if'd you want to personally contact me.....

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