Hopelawn, NJ, USA
Green & red lights spinning, moving and flashing. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the object might have been a star. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-02-18
- Where
- Hopelawn, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 40.527, -74.293 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-hopelawn-nj-2015-0dbcd9
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Hopelawn, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 130 sightings in 2015.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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