As UFOs 'Arrive' In News, See Latest West Windsor Sighting

WEST WINDSOR TOWNSHIP, NJ — UFO sightings never really left the news, but they’ve arguably never been more prevalent. Navy pilots recently spoke of seeing mysterious objects — with no discernible engine or exhaust fumes — flying at hypersonic speeds.

President Donald Trump recently said he was briefed on UFOs. A group of Senate lawmakers received a classified briefing this week about such objects. And let’s not get started on that strange Facebook video that seems to show a creepy-looking alien doing some sort of jig down someone’s driveway.

Virginia Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Warner wants answers on UFOs, whether it’s “weather balloons, little green men, or something else entirely,” Rachel Cohen, his spokeswoman, told CNN. And the Navy has drafted guidelines to allow pilots to report UFOs, and so that the military can track them, though the military branch prefers not to use the term “UFO.”

“So, we don’t actually use that term,” Joseph Gradisher, a spokesman for the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told Patch this week. “We use ‘Unmanned Aerial System.’”
The term, shortened to UAS, refers to things like recreational flying drones people can buy at a store. For the “other” things, the Navy uses the term UAP, meaning “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.”

“We constitute anything unknown or unidentified in the airspace as an ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon,’ no matter what it is,” he said.

In that spirit, Patch took a peek at the most recent UFO — or UAP, if you prefer — sighting in West Windsor and New Jersey as a whole using a database compiled by the National UFO Reporting Center. Spoiler alert: So far, no little green men have been seen running around.

West Windsor, May 28, 2019

Summary: There was a strange light pattern in the woods. In the woods there were weird light patters in the tree canopy. One large light in the middle and two smaller lights to left. There were another set of lights on right. The large light blinked twice. The light furthest left blinked twice, the light next to it once. The large light in middle blinked again twice and one light on the right blinked once. The pattern kept repeating. There was no noise.

Duration: Unknown

Sicklerville, June 18, 2019

Summary: Objects were in groups 6-8 Seem to be oval in shape Orange light or beam was on the objects Objects were floating in groups

Duration: 30 minutes

According to data compiled by the Center, there were nearly 500 sightings across the country in May and more than 300 in January, March and April. The Sicklerville sighting is the most recent sighting logged by the trackers,

The Navy seems convinced of the existence of UFOs, telling POLITICO in a statement there were reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft “entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years.”

“For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report,” the statement said.

And Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress, told The New York Times last month he was one of multiple pilots who saw UFOs. The pilots began seeing the objects in 2014 and 2015 after receiving upgraded equipment.

Initially they believed they were getting bad readings.But the sightings kept happening, showing up at 30,000 feet, 20,000 feet and even at sea level. The objects could speed up, slow down and then reach hypersonic speeds.

“These things would be out there all day,” he said. “Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”

Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report.