CaseCigar2021

Rahway, NJ, USA

It was follow a air plain high in the West sky,red in color, no sound, then it sorry off passing the plain, then it was gone, but the

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-02
Where
Rahway, NJ, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
40.608, -74.278 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-rahway-nj-2021-7324fd
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  • 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

  • Rahway, NJ shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 75 reports came from New Jersey in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 2.6% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

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