North Bergen, NJ, USA
white and green lite hovering 20 or 30 feet over head. then ziipped away and disapeared after 3 or 5 seconds
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-02-06
- Where
- North Bergen, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- about 5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.804, -74.012 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-north-bergen-nj-2009-08808a
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
- This is one of 22 reports logged in North Bergen, NJ.
- This case is one of 119 New Jersey reports filed in 2009.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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