Upper Saddle River (Woodcliff Lake), NJ, USA
Just left rest area exit 172 GSP heading south, very sunny bright morning- witnessed a bright light streak down from the sky towards th
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-03-11
- Where
- Upper Saddle River (Woodcliff Lake), NJ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 SECONDS
- Geo
- 41.058, -74.098 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-upper-saddle-river-woodcliff-lake-nj-2008-6a2fe1
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
- Upper Saddle River (Woodcliff Lake), NJ has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 104 reports from New Jersey.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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