Hillsborough, NJ, USA
Hovered/Still-Red & gold pale blinking lights, watched it for about 45 seconds then it just vanished, not even a take off.
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-05-17
- Where
- Hillsborough, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 40.478, -74.627 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-hillsborough-nj-2008-25d310
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
- Hillsborough, NJ has 13 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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