So remember that strange, blinking light show that lit up New Jersey skies last November — the one that had everyone from UFO enthusiasts to casual stargazers freaking out and grabbing their phones? Turns out, it wasn’t aliens, rogue satellites, or a glitch in the matrix. It was a private contractor working with the U.S. military. And yes, they’ve finally come forward — sort of.
At a military summit in August, held at Fort Rucker, an employee from the unnamed firm casually dropped the bombshell: “You remember that big UFO scare in New Jersey last year? Well, that was us.” Just like that.
Apparently, the glowing objects that had people convinced extraterrestrials were circling the Jersey Shore were actually part of a field test for a new aerial craft. A test that, according to them, didn’t need public disclosure because of a private contract with the government.
Now, this wasn’t some backyard drone with LED strips. The company showed off their craft in a live demo during the summit — and according to folks who were there, this thing didn’t just fly.
It vanished. “When it turned you almost completely lose sight of it,” one source said. Which would explain why those viral clips from Atlantic City showed blinking lights suddenly disappearing into thin air, leaving families staring at the sky going, “Did you just see that?!”
And people really thought they saw something. Between November 19 and December 13, New Jersey logged a whopping 964 sightings. That’s not a typo. Nine hundred sixty-four reports.
Phones blew up, message boards lit up, and even former intelligence officials like ex-CIA operations officer Laura Ballman weighed in. She told Fox News Live she suspected the whole thing might’ve been a classified test. Looks like she was more right than wrong.
Ballman floated the idea that this was about testing detection or evasion tech in urban environments. Given how these objects were apparently undetectable to some of the government’s most sophisticated surveillance tools, it makes you wonder how advanced this stuff really is.
John Kirby, the White House National Security spokesman, confirmed the craft weren’t foreign and didn’t pose a threat, but also said the sightings couldn’t be corroborated with hard evidence. Translation: our eyes saw it, but our sensors didn’t. That alone should raise a few eyebrows.
So now we’ve got a clearer picture — and it’s not green aliens in flying saucers. It’s high-tech, manned aircraft being developed quietly under government contracts, doing test runs over civilian skies without warning. Whether that’s comforting or concerning is a whole other conversation. But one thing’s for sure: the next time you see a light vanish over your backyard, don’t assume it’s sci-fi. It might just be the future, flying under the radar — literally.
