Three New Jersey witnesses fishing at Manasquan Inlet report two "intermittent white lights" performing maneuvers for 15 minutes in the night sky on June 26, 2010, as though it were a game of "hide-and-seek," according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

"The object appeared to display a single steady white light for about 10 to 20 seconds at a time, during which period it made numerous almost instantaneous position changes vertically, horizontally and diagonally within a defined area, then would extinguish, only to reappear and perform a similar but random series of movements," the reporting witness stated.

"I am aware of no aircraft with this capability."

They soon realized that they were looking at two objects.

"It was difficult to determine initially if the movements were that of a single object or more, but after about a minute of us all watching the movements of the object with great interest, a second object appeared simultaneously nearby, and displayed similar behavior to the first object. After that the objects appeared both singly and together in individual random maneuvers which made them appear to move thousands of feet at a time in just a second or fraction of a second, and in many directions with abrupt stops and zig-zag direction changes, almost as if playing a combined game of tag and hide-and-seek."

Numerous reports to MUFON over the past year detail the same type of behavior between two or more anomalous lights in the sky - often reported as if the lights are performing a show, or some kind of gaming technique between the lights.

The witnesses are convinced they were not observing typical man made aircraft.

"Being a life-long boater and professional yacht delivery captain, and being familiar with air traffic in this area and having lived here for over 50 years, I feel I have good observation abilities but remain at a loss as to what these objects might have been, and my two friends agree they could not determine what these objects were."

New Jersey, June 26, 2010 - 2 intermittent white lights made individual very fast random movements. MUFON Case # 24020.

Two friends and myself were night fishing in the center of Manasquan Inlet, NJ which separates Point Pleasant Beach from Manasquan, about 200 yards from the inlet opening to the Atlantic Ocean.

This is a familiar location I have known for over 50 years.

Friend #1 first noticed an unusual star-like intermittent (not steadily blinking) white light making unusually fast and erratic movements and seemingly impossible instantaneous stops and changes of direction, and pointed it out to me and friend #2.

It was a clear, cloudless night with a full moon, and the light, relative to our position inside Manasquan Inlet, appeared to be directly above a lighted red flashing buoy one mile approximately southeast of the mouth of the inlet, at an approximate apparent altitude of 5,000 feet or about 30 degrees above the eastern horizon, an area of high volume air traffic in and out of New York City area airports Newark, Kennedy and LaGuardia, as well as east-west flight paths of military flights in and out of nearby McGuire Air Force Base and Lakehurst Naval Air Station.

With no reference points, the distance from us to the object is estimated to be at least 5 miles away, but could well have been much farther. I have copied a link from EarthNC to show our exact position:

When the three of us took note of the object, we at first thought it might be Coast Guard or Navy helicopters which regularly frequent the area, but those are easily distinguishable by their navigation and steadily flashing strobe lights. The object appeared to display a single steady white light for about 10 to 20 seconds at a time, during which period it made numerous almost instantaneous position changes vertically, horizontally and diagonally within a defined area, then would extinguish, only to reappear and perform a similar but random series of movements. I am aware of no aircraft with this capability.

The three of us watched these maneuvers intently and with great curiosity and amazement for several minutes. The intermittently lighted objects would appear smaller than a pea held at arms length, and we observed no other air traffic during this sighting.

It was difficult to determine initially if the movements were that of a single object or more, but after about a minute of us all watching the movements of the object with great interest, a second object appeared simultaneously nearby, and displayed similar behavior to the first object. After that the objects appeared both singly and together in individual random maneuvers which made them appear to move thousands of feet at a time in just a second or fraction of a second, and in many directions with abrupt stops and zig-zag direction changes, almost as if playing a combined game of tag and hide-and-seek.

We observed these objects for about 15 minutes until they were no longer visible as we headed northwest up the Manasquan River back to Bay Head. Also, the movements of the objects were all straight line movements as opposed to curving as a typical aircraft might do.

Being a life-long boater and professional yacht delivery captain, and being familiar with air traffic in this area and having lived here for over 50 years, I feel I have good observation abilities but remain at a loss as to what these objects might have been, and my two friends agree they could not determine what these objects were.