CaseCigar2007

Wayne, NJ, USA

Bright, Cigar Shaped UFO following Commercial Jetliner in 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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-06-19
Where
Wayne, NJ, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
25 seconds
Geo
40.925, -74.277 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-wayne-nj-2007-3f41c6
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

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Wayne, NJ.
  • This case is one of 69 New Jersey reports filed in 2007.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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