UFO News Article:
“UFO sightings reported”, 5 January 1979
(Wilmington Morning Star, North Carolina)
The Wilmington Morning Star reports that several people, including a police officer (in Brick Township), sighted UFOs over New Jersey on 3 and 4 January 1979:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9MksAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NxMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4531,905998
The article also mentions a Poplar Branch, North Carolina UFO sighting.
Map of the Bricktown, New Jersey area
(bricktownonline.com image)