UFOMYST
CaseLight2005

South Plainfield, NJ, USA

We heard a loud high-low in and out alarm type sound (DO-do-DO-do) approach from behind our vantage point. Two of us looked up as the

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-11-05
Where
South Plainfield, NJ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.579, -74.412 · exact
Slug
light-over-south-plainfield-nj-2005-961742
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

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in South Plainfield, NJ.
  • This case is one of 87 New Jersey reports filed in 2005.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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