UFOMYST
CaseCone2009

Hope, NJ, USA

UACNJ observatory in Hope, NJ looking due south; searchlight shining straight. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-19
Where
Hope, NJ, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
50 seconds
Geo
40.911, -74.967 · exact
Slug
cone-over-hope-nj-2009-0e28c1
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

  • Hope, NJ shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 119 reports came from New Jersey in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 0.5% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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