UFOMYST
CaseCone2004

South Plainfield, NJ, USA

Small black cone spotted floating over shopping center; upon return to area, cone had disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-07-29
Where
South Plainfield, NJ, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
unknown
Geo
40.579, -74.412 · exact
Slug
cone-over-south-plainfield-nj-2004-c004e7
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

  • South Plainfield, NJ has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 86 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2000s skewed 0.5% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.

Report

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