UFOMYST
CaseLight2009

Lake Hopatcong, NJ, USA

Three red lights seen from Lake Hopatcong, NJ on january 26

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-26
Where
Lake Hopatcong, NJ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
40.948, -74.617 · exact
Slug
light-over-lake-hopatcong-nj-2009-de99bf
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

  • Lake Hopatcong, NJ has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 119 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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