Elizabeth, NJ, USA
Observed a black disc shaped object moving slowly and occasionally emitting a sparkling light.
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 (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-09-05
- Where
- Elizabeth, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.664, -74.211 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-elizabeth-nj-2020-7659e9
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 19 reports logged in Elizabeth, NJ.
- This case is one of 144 New Jersey reports filed in 2020.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2020s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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