I was outside my company's building, in the parking lot, just after a thunderstorm, photographing cloud formations and lightning. As the cloud masses began to break up, I spotted a small, silver/white sphere moving in a slightly irregular path eastward over Lawrenceville, NJ toward the Pennsylvania border and Delaware River. It was very striking against the clear blue of the sky between the cumulus clouds.

I noticed right away that this was an atypical object.

The object moved fairly swiftly, jogging slightly left to right as it flew in the bright blue sky between two cloud masses that were breaking up. The apparent altitude was approximately that of personal, single-engine aircraft, not extremely high. No sound or contrail was evident. There were other commonly identified aircraft in the air at the time, well away from this object, and were a good visual reference.

I remember being calm, but very interested, and happy that I had my camera with me.

This object was highly irregular in its outline to my fairly well-trained eyes; clearly not an airplane configuration that I am familiar with. There were several witnesses to the event with me, and they all agreed that it was a very strange-looking object, with an atypical flight path. The object was finally obscured by more cumulus clouds, the entire sighting lasting about 20 seconds.

I snapped 7 photos of the event with my Nikon D40 DLSR, using a Nikon 18-55mm AF-S lens. Unfortunately, I didn't have my 55-200mm telephoto on the camera at the time, or the image would be much more informative.

I have enclosed the best photo that I have, with blow-ups done in Photoshop CS3 on a Mac Pro computer.

MUFON submitter 7602