Look; This Once In A Lifetime Comet Just Passed Over New Jersey

Jersey has seen some pretty wild things in our skies over the past few weeks.

Of course, we saw the amazing Aurora Borealis and the Northern Lights just last week, and some of the sights were amazing and out of this world.

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You can check out a bunch of cool pictures of the Northern Lights right here, it was truly an awe-inspiring sight.

And over the weekend, something flew over the New Jersey skies that we probably won't ever see again in our lifetime.

Did The Ancient Oort Cloud Comet Fly Over New Jersey?

My cousin in Bayville seems to have all the luck when it comes to seeing cool things in the sky from her backyard.

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Over the weekend she sent me a picture of a comet or a meteor falling through the sky and she told me that it was the Oort Cloud Comet.

If you're not familiar with the Oort Cloud Comet —I wasn't either—it was first discovered in 2023 and made its first pass near our planet for the first time in our universe's history.

According to NASA, the Oort Cloud Comet will also never be seen again in our lifetime, with its next estimated pass by of our planet in about 80 thousand years.

The estimated date we'd be able to see the comet in Jersey would be October 12th, so there is a good chance that the pictures my cousin got are in fact the Oort Cloud Comet.

I didn't see anything in Ocean Gate, but the pictures she got in Bayville are really cool!