CaseOval2020

Newark, NJ, USA

Clear Blue sky no clouds Star-like silver object fading in and out visible for 1 minute or 2 then disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-09-19
Where
Newark, NJ, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.736, -74.172 · exact
Slug
oval-over-newark-nj-2020-013406
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

  • Newark, NJ has 35 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 144 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2020s skewed 3.5% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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