CaseChanging2015

Somerset, NJ, USA

I was driving to work at 430pm down 287 north near exit 7 when i noticed a bright white circle in the sky. It seemed to have a haze of

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-11-16
Where
Somerset, NJ, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
40.498, -74.488 · exact
Slug
changing-over-somerset-nj-2015-135739
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Somerset, NJ shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 130 reports came from New Jersey in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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