Sparta, NJ, USA
While driving I noticed 30-50 orange orbs in the sky that moved in Z formations and then vanished.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-04-27
- Where
- Sparta, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.033, -74.638 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sparta-nj-2014-8967f6
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 6 reports logged in Sparta, NJ.
- This case is one of 167 New Jersey reports filed in 2014.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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