Mahwah, NJ, USA
An orange orb appeared in the southwest skies The night sky was darkened by clouds as a nor'easter was fast approaching.It disappea
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-10-25
- Where
- Mahwah, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 41.089, -74.144 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-mahwah-nj-2021-393cb0
Part of a wave
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
- Mahwah, NJ shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 75 reports came from New Jersey in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.