Brick Township: Frauen beobachten riesiges oranges UFO

Event Details On February 5, 1979, at 2:00 a.m., two women driving home from work in Brick Township, New Jersey, observed a large bright orange object shaped like a fuzzy half-circle with blue hues, roughly Zeppelin-sized, flying just above treetops.

Pursuit and Behavior The witnesses followed it toward Lakewood Airport, where it hovered over a nearby lake and the airport itself before vanishing as a train halted them at a crossing.

Witnesses and Evidence Two women as primary observers; identities unspecified. Reported in „Society Studies Sighting in Sky,“ Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, February 5, 1979, p. A3. No photos or traces noted.

Significance Classic nighttime sighting of a stationary large object with unusual shape and color in populated area, highlighting New Jersey UFO wave in late 1970s.