UFOMYST
CaseFireball2020

Howell, NJ, USA

Light green fireball-like object traveling downward.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-10
Where
Howell, NJ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
40.164, -74.208 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-howell-nj-2020-34a009
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…

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In context

  • One of 27 documented reports from Howell, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 144 sightings in 2020.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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