Form
97-AR
Date: Monday, 02 Jan 2006
Cat:
4
To: NICAP
Animal Reaction Feature:
Small, excited bait fish swam to the ocean’s surface as a cylinder hovered over the water. After the cylinder was gone, the fish subsided.
The Sighting:
At 3:17 PM on a clear but windy day, a 25 year-old fisherman was 45 miles out to sea from the New Jersey coast when a reflection from the east caught his eye. He saw a small cylinder hovering an estimated 1000 feet over the water and about 1500 feet away. It emitted no light but had a pulsing, electrical (static) sound. A compass was disturbed and a GPS screen indicated that no signal could be found.
The cylinder appeared to have two sections that counter rotated [no further description], and there is a reference to a dome on the MUFON form.
The witness went below deck for a camera, but when he returned, the cylinder was gone. The compass was now behaving normally, the GPS had a signal, and the fish were no longer at the surface. The duration of the sighting estimated as 45 seconds.
Sound and EM effects reported; no physiological effects reported.
Sources:
Hall, Richard H., 2003, UFO Sightings in the New Millennium, FUFOR, p. 14, from:
Filers Files, MUFON UFO Journal, no. 4ll July 2002, p. 12.