CaseDisk2017

Old Bridge, NJ, USA

Craft flew in from the E, stopped midair at an angle for some seconds. It lowered down and then came back up. It then took off so

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-05-18
Where
Old Bridge, NJ, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.415, -74.365 · exact
Slug
disk-over-old-bridge-nj-2017-219e50
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…

In context

  • This is one of 16 reports logged in Old Bridge, NJ.
  • This case is one of 120 New Jersey reports filed in 2017.
  • Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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