UFOMYST
CaseSphere2019

Beachwood, NJ, USA

Large orb witnessed floating in the night sky, breaking apart and then lighting up in a flash and vanishing.

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-04-01
Where
Beachwood, NJ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2.5 minutes
Geo
39.939, -74.193 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-beachwood-nj-2019-23db6d
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Beachwood, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 193 sightings in 2019.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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