UFOMYST
CaseCircle2009

Howell, NJ, USA

A bright light with a cone shaped lighted mist. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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 (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-19
Where
Howell, NJ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.164, -74.208 · exact
Slug
circle-over-howell-nj-2009-e94683
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Howell, NJ shows up 27 times across the archive.
  • 119 reports came from New Jersey in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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