Forked River, NJ, USA
Shimming object in the sky between Popcorn Park Zoo and Garden State Parkway 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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-09-21
- Where
- Forked River, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 7 sec
- Geo
- 39.840, -74.190 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-forked-river-nj-2006-8e78d2
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 11 reports logged in Forked River, NJ.
- This case is one of 73 New Jersey reports filed in 2006.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.