Carteret, NJ, USA
Major sighting by hundreds motorists along the NJ turnpike (traffic stopped!), from homes , by police, you name, they all saw the same
Report quality: High83/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 13 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-15
- Where
- Carteret, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- minutes
- Geo
- 40.577, -74.228 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-carteret-nj-2001-a71130
Part of a wave
NJ flap 2001-07
NJ, USA
15 sightings in geohash dr5n (NJ) during 2001 peak months 7–7; top shape formation
Local cluster
Carteret, NJ logged 14 reports in the single month of July 2001.
NJ flap 2001-07
This case is part of the NJ flap 2001-07 — 15 reports clustered in the same place and window of time.
Explore this area →In context
- One of 19 documented reports from Carteret, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 71 sightings in 2001.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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