Well, some are saying it was out there the night of Thursday, Aug. 28, over East Rutherford. A video of an unidentified flying object spotted by East Rutherford resident Sebastian Steinberg and posted on YouTube by Radio Irish, a local radio station run by Rutherford resident Sean McCarthy, has some believing there was a UFO in our midst for a brief period last week.

McCarthy said Steinberg submitted, via e-mail, only the video, which he said was filmed in East Rutherford, and his e-mail address, but no further information. McCarthy's attempts to contact Steinberg haven't yet been returned.

The footage, which was taken at night and never brings the object into focus for long, shows a long rounded object apparently moving slowly through the sky. There's a blinking light on top of it, blue and red lights on the sides, some sort of glow at the bottom and possibly writing along its side. It was spotted moving from west to east over the meadowlands.

"It's a blimp," said Will Roseman, the mayor of Carlstadt and a pilot himself. "It's definitely a blimp. You can tell it's a blimp or a plane from the light." Roseman said planes are required to have a red light on their portside and a green light on their starboard side, which the UFO in question evidently has. He also noted that there is a blinking light at the top of the aircraft, indicating that it's moving at a low rate of speed.

"I highly doubt that UFOs would adhere to FAA aircraft lighting regulations," said Roseman.

McCarthy's commentary on the video also mentions people reporting a strange noise coming from the object. Roseman explained that blimp propellers can make a strange, deep sound when heard from below.

"There are no little green men in this case," said Shea Oakley, the executive director of the Teterboro Aviation Hall of Fame. "It's a blimp." Oakley agreed with Roseman's assessment and verified the typical lighting patterns. He also noted that the glow towards the bottom of the object is most likely the scrolling text that can sometimes be seen on the bottom of recent blimps.

The Giants were playing a preseason game against the New England Patriots on the night of Aug. 28, so it would have been likely there was a blimp in the sky over the game. Nevertheless, FAA spokesman Jim Peters refused to confirm whether there was a blimp overhead that night.

Roseman said he's familiar with the confusion blimps can cause at night. He personally recounted from when he was getting his pilot's license: He and another pilot were flying at night as part of their training and suddenly they couldn't see anything in front of them. They quickly realized that a blimp had risen up in front of their field of vision, but at night all they could detect was the sudden disappearance of what they had been seeing before.

The National UFO Reporting Center lists 905 UFO reports for New Jersey and eight reports specifically for the South Bergenite area, with three in East Rutherford, two in Rutherford and three in Lyndhurst.

When Orson Welles' broadcast his famous "War of the Worlds" program aired in 1938, the spaceships were said to have landed in Grover's Mill, now part of West Windsor Township in central Jersey. But many recall evacuating the Meadowlands because Welles’ description of place where the landing took place was wetlands and marsh. The broadcast, which famously caused panic among many listeners, described the alien tripods as traveling towards and eventually attacking New York, releasing poison gas and firing heat rays as they went.

See the UFO video here.