Freehold, NJ, USA
3/09/08: Bright, shiny liquid-silver colored oval hovering in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-03-09
- Where
- Freehold, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4-5 secs
- Geo
- 40.260, -74.274 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-freehold-nj-2008-d4b3af
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
- Freehold, NJ has 21 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
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.