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On
July 6 1986, Wall Street investor Ron Lee and artist Ninetta
Nappi went out on the balcony of her apartment in the StoneHenge
building in North Bergen, New Jersey to watch the sunset
over the New York skyline that evening. Immediately, Ron
noticed an unusual object hovering over the Hudson River
and pointed it out to Ninetta. The object was motionless
and neither of them could figure out what it could be. The
object was large, metallic, oval-shaped and topped with
a dome. On its bottom were three sets of twin lights. No
sound emanated from the object. Based on artist Ninetta
Nappi’s sketch of the scene, we estimated the size
of the object to be between 200 and 250 feet.
The
couple continued to observe it for nearly ten minutes until
it started to glide away rapidly and rose up into the sky
towards the South. Shortly after the object had departed,
they heard a loud roar and, as they turned around, they
saw a military jet in hot pursuit. Both of them stayed silent
about their experience at the time it happened. However,
some years later, they agreed to be interviewed about the
incident for an episode of the History channel’s series
“The Unexplained” which aired in the mid-nineties.
Afterwards, they never spoke publicly about it again.
This
was only one of many UFO sightings to take place in the
North Bergen area of New Jersey. Several UFO incidents occurred
over the years, some as early as 1948 and several in the
immediate vicinity of the Stonehenge building. In fact,
some estimate that North Bergen has had the most reported
sightings of any region of the United States over nearly
forty years. Probably one of the best-known cases in this
area was that of one George O’Barski who claimed that
he had witnessed a hovering UFO in North Hudson Park near
the Stonehenge building back in 1975. There have been many
sighting reports since then of unusual flying objects or
lights in the North Bergen sky.
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