UFOMYST
CaseOval2008

Boonton Twp, NJ, USA

((HOAX??)) Short, silent, very fast spinning yellow disk.

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-07-29
Where
Boonton Twp, NJ, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.903, -74.407 · exact
Slug
oval-over-boonton-twp-nj-2008-3b27a9
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Boonton Twp, NJ has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 104 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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