CaseSphere2013

Asbury Park, NJ, USA

Watched a neon blue orb fly directly over head, slowly and silently. Appeared very close but hard to say.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-09-19
Where
Asbury Park, NJ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minute
Geo
40.220, -74.012 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-asbury-park-nj-2013-6bf532
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

  • This is one of 12 reports logged in Asbury Park, NJ.
  • This case is one of 166 New Jersey reports filed in 2013.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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