New Jersey, NJ, USA
Bright orange rectangular UFO jumped across sky then shot off into horizon at immense speed.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-22
- Where
- New Jersey, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 47.199, -65.206 · fallback
- Slug
- rectangle-over-new-jersey-nj-2013-1a4653
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 4 documented reports from New Jersey, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 166 sightings in 2013.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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