UFOMYST
CaseOther2020

Westfield, NJ, USA

After hearing a loud similar to a train combine with a plane passing overhead, I looked up and saw a bean shape flat object about 30 ft

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-08-08
Where
Westfield, NJ, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
6 seconds
Geo
40.659, -74.347 · exact
Slug
other-over-westfield-nj-2020-968746
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

  • One of 6 documented reports from Westfield, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 144 sightings in 2020.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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