Maple Shade, NJ, USA
was sitting outside and looked up. it was a black oval disk and it was it was turning sideways as it flew. It was still light out.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-03
- Where
- Maple Shade, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.953, -74.992 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-maple-shade-nj-2020-2db411
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
- One of 8 documented reports from Maple Shade, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 144 sightings in 2020.
- Oval sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2020s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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