The Boulevard East Blimp

The blimps were grounded by fog that night, the story goes. Yet Ann Karlovich saw what looked like one moving slowly over North Bergen in New Jersey. It was elliptical and metallic, and it was brightly lit. When she turned her car it was gone. Her son-in-law also reported seeing it. The public record puts the object at about eighty feet long. It also says two separate groups saw it, which is a larger claim than the family pair the archive holds.

The sighting happened on Boulevard East on 18 August 1993. That is the catalogue's date and the archive follows it.

What is on the record

Karlovich and her son-in-law, named only as Joe, are the two claimants. One source exists beyond the video. The Hatch catalogue carries the sighting, and its entry comes from a press clipping gathered by the Farish UFO Newsclipping Service. The entry does not name Karlovich. Her name comes from the archive's single video telling. No second catalogue has been found and no official inquiry is known.

A blimp is the obvious ordinary explanation. It was raised and rejected, and the catalogue entry records no blimp. That rejection leans on the report that blimps were not flying that night. The record does not say who checked the flights or how. A reader should treat the grounding as part of the report and not as a verified fact.

The archive holds no photograph and no second description. Everything about the object's size and lighting comes from the witnesses through the clipping and the telling.

Why it sits where it does

A woman and her son-in-law in one video put this case at L3, and the public record says a second group saw the object too. Outside the archive the trail is one press clipping. What crossed North Bergen that night is not resolved here.