Wanaque

Wanaque and the Lights over the Reservoir

Through the winter of 1966 a bright object was seen for weeks over the Wanaque reservoir in New Jersey, hanging above the ice. The witnesses included the mayor, the chief of police, the men on duty at the dam and dozens of residents; on some nights reports came in from several points on the shore at once. The dam keepers maintained that a beam from the object had melted a hole in the ice. There was no checking it — the ice was gone by spring. The wave came back in 1967. Neither the Air Force nor the police found an explanation, and Wanaque survives in the literature as a rare case whose principal witnesses were town officials on duty.