New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Round above the orbit level of the ISS, moving faster than the station but slower than a comet. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-09-28
- Where
- New Brunswick, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 40.486, -74.452 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-new-brunswick-nj-2017-a75860
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
- This is one of 15 reports logged in New Brunswick, NJ.
- This case is one of 120 New Jersey reports filed in 2017.
- Cone craft made up 0.4% of 2010s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.
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.