CaseCircle2009

Bradley Beach, NJ, USA

orange circles moving along side each other

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-05-21
Where
Bradley Beach, NJ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 to 1--1/2 minutes
Geo
40.202, -74.012 · exact
Slug
circle-over-bradley-beach-nj-2009-abf8e9
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

  • One of 5 documented reports from Bradley Beach, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 119 sightings in 2009.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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