FBI-UAP-D012, Newark Field Office, 1952-1967
This file details a special inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Newark Field Office of various reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in and near New Jersey between August 1952 and January 1967. These files include memoranda and correspondence between the FBI and the U.S. Air Force regarding UFO sightings, as well as public correspondence concerning various UFO-focused groups.
The summary above is sourced from the released file metadata as published to war.gov. The analysis sections below are original to this tracker.
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INDICES SBABCH SLIP TO CHIEF CLERK: DATE & PLACE OF BIBTH ________________________ __Restricted to Locality of ______________________ FILE &SERIAL NO. BEMABKS FILE & SERIAL NO. BmlARKS Searched by __________________ Clerk Agent References Reviewed by _________
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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE THE tNSPECTOR GENERAL USAF 20 DISTRICT OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS 67 BROAD STREET NEW YORK 4, NEW YORK IN REPLY Special Agent-in-Charge Federal :eureau ot Investigation Newark 2, Hew Jersq Dear Kr. McKee, Transitted herewith are copies of a restricted memorani'aa data4 photographs allegedly ot wti.dentified aerial objecte. The J.:ti- Technical Intelligence center has requested that the background o~ abject ciT.l.llaa known vitneaa GIORGI J. STOCK, 221 Brooks Ave., Passaic, If. J., be in Teatigated in an attempt to determine their reliabilii:ty; that the pho tographer be questioned. u to the cirCU111stances under lihich he took the pictures; that an atteapt be ll&de to locate other sources in the areaJ and that an:r,other data pertinent to determining the authenticity- ot the photos be obtained. This office will apprecia't·'iN~~ceiving copies or your reports o:t investigation or this eerely' yours, A.a 1ndicated abo or, USD ing District
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SA JOHN T. MURPHY 8 Douglas Road, Glen Ridge, N.J., te y advised on the above date that in the middle of t ternoon of November 5, 1957, her husband, hersel:f and 2 children were n the lawn of their property • From a southwesterly rection they observed a long, cylindrical, dark silver object th no wings but fins on the rear, moving along toward the n.ortheas There were no marki.rtgs on the object, it was not flying high nor aet and they could not tell 1.f it made any noise since there was a plane flying nearby at the same She recalled there were no other neighbors out at the 'time and they apparently were the only ones who saw it. She stated that the object returned from the dire~tion it had gone about dusk and it seemed as though there was some motor noise from it. It flew into the southwest at a higher altitude but at about the same speed. .tt.!,t !Nf'ORMA,T'COH f;()NTA!NJ.cr> "-'•· Advise OSI. OATE B
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• UNITED STAT S GOVERNMENT FROM BEBTS US Air Force Reserve Captain, 24 Day Street, Cli telephonically contacted this office at 8:46 p. to advise that he had seen an unidenti- that he observed a object in the sky due west of Clifton,· N. J. According SCHEY, the object had a shape reaeabliag that of an underwater deaolition boab and light, in the shape of a croas, waa colling fro• within this UFO. SCHEY stated that he, with the use of hia field glasses, was able to see what looked like diaaond-ahaped holes in the u:ro froa which the ligat eaitted. Agent GEORGE WEBTZ, 081 Duty Officer, was telephonically contacted at his hoae at 8:51 p.a., 8/27/57, and advised of the above.
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• UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO SAC, RI: (62-0) DATIi: SA DOllALD B•• BOBBRTS flyiae o·bject over Glen Biclge, N'. J. IIARI ated hi• wife deacrib•d this object a.a being a brilliant white, cigar •baped witb delta wines toward the tail and wa.a unable to hear any COiline froa thia object. According to Jira. IUltIIO, thia object waa flyiq froa tb.e aouth to the aorth. VAN LIBRE, OSI, waa telephoaically
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• UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO DATE: an unideatified flying object froa the kitchea window of her lloae. Sile clescribecl tais Vl'O as hull.et-shaped, silTer, no winga, :flying aoutJa at a very hip altitude wita vapor trail. Sb.estated it flew aao~ higher than co-roial aircraft and she heard no aoi...
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• UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FROM : SA BILL WILLIA!e SUBJECT: rNI NG OBJECT SIGHTED 232 Dwight St., Jeraey City, phone HE- S-0.33 J ad iaed on thia date that ahe and observed th• eu ect object lltlich appeared aa a flaming rocket coming down :rrom the 1k7. They were in their_ car at the tilft• coming home("1orth) tram the aho:ee on RT. JS aTid were passing over a small bridge just before going on to the lai-~e bridge at Pe:rtJ Amboy. •
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The writer telephonioally contacted SA John Murphy, who ia in charge ot 11UJon with other go-vernm.ent agencies in the Newark office,at 1:10 AM. The writer viahed to know whether h• should 1mmediatfly conatact OSI or it SA Murphy ahould do ao. SA Murphy tqld the nt1Jer that the procedure aa he underatooad1t was to aend a letter to the interested agency and not make an immediate ooal*" 1th the agency at night. SA. Murphy did suggest that the writer 1 rm the Sunday morning duty agent of the contents or thia meao and leave it to hia dlac9etion aa to whether OSI ahould be co cted at that time. M'rra. A.G.DDower telephonically contacted the Newark ottice at 1:35 AM on this date. She informed the writer that ah• and her husband had seen a UFO that had paaaed over her reaidenc• in a South to North d1reot18nJ that it had laated tor only two or three aeoondaJ that to her it appeared to be a white hot point ot l.lght. with a tail or predomiantly orange coloringJ that this tail waa at least ten aa large aa the objeotJ that the tail waa
Where this file fits in the PURSUE archive
This file is one of FBI's 104 files in the Trump PURSUE disclosure. Within the FBI agency block it ranks #51 of 104 by Anomalousness Index. Across the entire 450-file archive it ranks #236 of 450.
That places it in the lower-scoring band of the archive (236 of 450 by score), typical of investigative-record style files where the report is paper-based rather than instrumented.
For the broader cluster context, this file is part of FBI Modern UAP Files - the FBI's modern UAP files: the 2022 Colorado Springs interview and the FBI-authenticated northeastern orb videos. The cluster page walks through all 47 member files with regional grouping, sensor breakdown, and standout analysis.
Anomalousness Index: 58/100
Evidentiary weight that this encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. Not a probability of extraterrestrial origin - that number is not honestly computable from the released files and this tracker refuses to publish it.
🤖 AI-ASSISTED SCORING · methodology
The six rubric components break down for this file as follows. Each component has a weighted contribution to the final score; the per-component explanation below describes what this file's particular value on that component means in the rubric's framework.
No sensor, camera, or instrument backs this observation - it is testimony, relayed through the FBI, and scored on the rubric's lowest sensor-quality tier for that reason. That doesn't bear on the witness's credibility (a separate axis); it reflects only that nothing beyond human perception recorded the event.
The witness here is FBI personnel, entering the report into the federal investigative system through standard channels. That's one of the rubric's higher credibility tiers - trained federal investigative staff, weighted level with a trained aviator and below only an astronaut witness - though the posture is reactive (responding to a report) rather than an active operational context.
On corroboration, this file from the FBI - like every single-tier file in the PURSUE archive - is a single-witness or single-instrument capture per the released metadata. The rubric doesn't infer multi-witness confirmation the summaries don't actually establish; this score reflects the honest limit of what was released, not a judgment about the underlying event.
The released file contains no speed, acceleration, or vector data precise enough to score on the kinematic axis - and that's true archive-wide, not specific to this file. The rubric declines to infer kinematic anomaly from a witness's narrative estimate of how fast something moved; that itself says something about what PURSUE actually released: descriptive accounts, not flight-path telemetry.
Every file in the archive, including this one, scores this tier: a conventional explanation was considered in the released record but isn't treated as dispositive. That's a pattern in how war.gov's own summaries are written - they consistently hedge against strong conclusions either way - and the rubric takes that hedging at face value rather than resolving it for them.
This file was released as open by the FBI after a formal review process concluded - not simply logged and left pending. That's a stronger disposition signal than 'unresolved, no review': a review actually happened, and remaining open is the FBI's own published conclusion from it, not an absence of one.
Bottom line on the score: the Anomalousness Index of 58/100 reflects evidentiary weight that this specific file's encounter remains structurally unexplained by the rubric's six axes - it is not a claim that the underlying event involved anything non-conventional, and it is not comparable across rubrics that use different weights. For the full per-axis weights and the rubric JSON, see /methodology.
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