UFOMYST
CaseCigar2016

Burlington, NJ, USA

Cigar shaped flying object in NE sky over Burlington Township, NJ.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-14
Where
Burlington, NJ, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.071, -74.865 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-burlington-nj-2016-e64d6a
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…

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In context

  • Burlington, NJ shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 129 reports came from New Jersey in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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