CaseCircle2019

Hackettstown, NJ, USA

So it passed by at about 22 degrees above horizon moving west to east no sound. Red ball no tail. Traveling in straight horizontal the

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-09-22
Where
Hackettstown, NJ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
40.854, -74.829 · exact
Slug
circle-over-hackettstown-nj-2019-1a29e4
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

  • Hackettstown, NJ has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 193 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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