NEW JERSEY – A triangle craft hovering over the Garden State Parkway? A green, growing craft flying over Colts Neck High School? Strange lights in Ocean City?

No, New Jersey is not known as a "UFO" hotspot. But if you listen to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), you may feel otherwise. New Jersey had 183 reported sightings of strange objects in 2019, including repeated strange sightings in Colts Neck and Moorestown, plus reports from Brick, Point Pleasant Boro, Long Valley, Toms River and elsewhere.

The most recent sighting reported to NUFORC came on Dec. 21 in Gloucester City, when one observer saw bright red lights, but didn't elaborate. "Noticed two stationary T-shaped objects ... vertical, lighted up... had purple and one had white lights," reported one person in Point Pleasant Boro at 8:51 p.m. on Aug. 10.

"Star-like but much brighter, moving back-and-forth, fading in-and-out. Definitely not a star," said another person in Brick on Sept. 15 at 2:30 a.m. The sitings made their way to a list compiled by the National UFO Reporting Center, an independent organization that's been around since 1974. The group, which has assisted police departments when people report their observations to 911, has put together a list of more than 90,000 sightings around the world.

According to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), there is no lack of strange sightings in New Jersey.

New Jersey's weird sightings over the past year included these observations from residents: