UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Hillsborough, NJ, USA

3 people woke up to a loud noise at 3:30AM. We took time to find our glasses. We also took some time to lower the heat. We checked to s

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-11-16
Where
Hillsborough, NJ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 mins
Geo
40.478, -74.627 · exact
Slug
circle-over-hillsborough-nj-2020-b204ce
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Hillsborough, NJ, USA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • USA logged 36 sightings in 2020.
  • Circle sightings ran at 11.9% during the 2020s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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