UFOMYST
CaseDisk2016

Ventnor, NJ, USA

A flying disk, with 7 or 8 lights on the side, hovered for some time and abruptly descended straight downwards before it disappeared.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-10
Where
Ventnor, NJ, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
39.340, -74.477 · exact
Slug
disk-over-ventnor-nj-2016-28011a
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

  • One of 4 documented reports from Ventnor, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 129 sightings in 2016.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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