CaseOval2004

Fort Lee, NJ, USA

Right after the 5 US military jet planes passing by, Oval shaped, black, heavy-like, 70 degree tilted object was heading to north west

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-05-31
Where
Fort Lee, NJ, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
60 sec
Geo
40.851, -73.970 · exact
Slug
oval-over-fort-lee-nj-2004-00150f
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…

In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Fort Lee, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 86 sightings in 2004.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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