UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Oakland, NJ, USA

Orange orb, silently crossed sky over Oakland, NJ, wsw to ene.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-15
Where
Oakland, NJ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
41.013, -74.264 · exact
Slug
circle-over-oakland-nj-2016-f1a5ce
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Oakland, NJ shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 129 reports came from New Jersey in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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